6K Additive, a division of 6K, has partnered with a number of worldwide distributors and brokers to create a community of business companions. Particularly, Broder Metals Group will distribute supplies within the UK and Eire, Advance Steel Powder will distribute supplies in India, Infotron/Plastosel will cowl distribution in Turkey, and Clever AM will provide powder in Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. The corporate will selectively add new distributors and brokers over the approaching months based mostly on market demand.
“The breadth of fabric choices we’ve, the standard requirements, and the sustainability advantages have attracted prospects globally to 6K Additive. Having native professionals who not solely perceive the client necessities but in addition perceive supplies and purposes for metallic additive manufacturing is essential to help the worldwide market. Our new community of brokers and distributors every excel at serving to prospects qualify the suitable materials for the suitable utility. We’re excited to welcome them to the prolonged crew of 6K Additive,” mentioned Nick Pflugh, Chief Business Officer at 6K Additive.
6K’s UniMelt plasma manufacturing system is uniquely able to changing metallic scrap and end-of-life elements into high-performance metallic powders for AM, metallic injection molding, and different powder metallurgy manufacturing strategies. By doing so, the corporate offers entry to an unlimited home provide of strategically vital metals and alloys comparable to nickel and titanium from machine retailers and boneyards, in addition to refractory powders comparable to C103, tungsten, and others which are important to hypersonic and nuclear purposes. The patented 6K Additive course of cleans, prepares, and spheroidizes scrap alloys into high-quality powders with efficiency superior to atomization applied sciences.
The expanded distribution community announcement follows 6K Additive’s life cycle evaluation tasks for titanium and nickel powders. Quantifying the environmental impression of manufacturing printable metallic powders and evaluating atomization expertise strategies to 6K Additive’s course of, the unbiased research discovered that 6K’s UniMelt course of delivered a 91% power discount and 92% carbon emission discount from conventional processes for Ni718 powder. The unbiased research may be downloaded right here.