Good news and bad newsFirst, the bad news: he metal powders for additive manufacturing market continues to see increased competition in a new move from high-technology engineering group Sandvik (SAND:SS). Sandvik has announced plans to open a specialist additive manufacturing materials production plant in Sweden. The 200 million SEK ($25 million USD) facility will focus on the mining and production of fine metal powders made from titanium and nickel, close to the company’s additive manufacturing R&D center.
Gran Bjrkman, President of Sandvik Materials Technology – the division responsible for the plant, comments, “The metal powder segment and the additive manufacturing business are of increasingly strategic importance to us,”
The good news is that they won't be in production until 2020!