Sustainable AM feedstock Trumpf qualifies 6K Additive titanium metal powder on Truprint

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A new qualification ensures that 6K Additive’s sustainable titanium powder meets the high-performance standards of Trumpf’s Truprint additive manufacturing systems. This advancement gives manufacturers greater confidence in material quality while significantly reducing environmental impact — meeting rising demands for both performance and sustainability in metal 3D printing.

Technology company Trumpf announced that 6K Additive’s titanium metal powder has been qualified for use in the Truprint additive manufacturing systems. This new qualification helps strengthen the opportunity for customers to leverage the premium titanium powder for their applications with the assurance that printed parts will meet their most stringent requirements and will have the lowest environmental impact.

“At Trumpf we are dedicated to making our customer’s experience with our Truprint systems deliver the highest level of performance and this includes the powder they use for their metal parts,” said Dennis Pede, Material engineer and scientist at Trumpf. “Truprint systems are open systems, allowing our customers to use the powder of their choice. However, for optimal process conditions and material properties, we recommend suitable material powders and work closely with our partners. Additionally, more and more our customers are asking us for metrics on the environmental footprint of our machines and the process. Having 6K Additive’s titanium sustainable powder added as an approved qualified powder, ensures customers get the quality assurance with the added value of driving down their CO₂ footprint.”

Frank Roberts, President of 6K Additive added, “We continue to hear from our aerospace and defense customers asking us to help lower the barriers for qualification for their applications. The collaboration between our two companies did just that by ensuring the machine and powder are qualified ahead of their own internal qualification, which will streamline the customer's process into production faster. We are excited to work with the Trumpf team on titanium and other powders in our portfolio going forward.”

6K Additive is the world’s first producer of AM powder made from highly sustainable sources — offering a full suite of premium metal and alloy powders including nickel, titanium, copper, stainless steel, and refractory metals such as tungsten, niobium, and rhenium. Backed by the award-winning Unimelt production-scale microwave plasma process, the technology precisely spheroidizes metal powders while controlling the chemistry and porosity of the final product with zero contamination and high-throughput. An independent LCA study validates that the approach makes it possible to achieve reductions in energy usage and carbon emissions of 90 percent for its nickel-based alloys and a 75 percent reduction in titanium alloys.

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