titanium supply chain

Export-Import Bank of U.S. Loans $27.4M to 6K Additive to Boost U.S. Metal Powder Output

Critical minerals have overtaken news cycles all year, with U.S. tariffs and Chinese export curbs disrupting supply chains and driving new waves of investment. As recently as last week, at…

A Circular Way to Print: Turning Tornado Fighter Jets Into 3D Printing Powder

In a lab in Lancashire, engineers are doing something that sounds almost poetic: turning pieces of retired fighter jets into raw material for the next generation of aircraft. British company…

IperionX Receives Another $25M in U.S. Government Funding to Scale Domestic Titanium Powder Production

Earlier this year, IperionX, the U.S. critical minerals supplier specializing in building a domestic titanium supply chain, announced that it had been awarded a Department of Defense (DoD) Industrial Base…

IperionX Test Runs HAMR Sustainable Titanium Powder Making System for 3D Printing

IperionX has conducted a test run on its Hydrogen Assisted Metallothermic Reduction (HAMR) furnace using scrap Grade 5 titanium. The furnace, which was completed at the end of April, had…