AP&C to offer aluminium alloy F357 powder

AP&C – a GE Additive company – will begin the production of aluminium alloy F357 powder in Q1 2019, with customer deliveries expected from April 2019. In direct response to growing demand from the aerospace and automotive industries, aluminium alloy F357 powder will be manufactured using AP&C’s proprietary Advanced Plasma Atomization (APA) technology at its recently expanded facility in Saint-Eustache, Canada, which has a production capacity of 1,000 tons.

Aluminium alloy F357 powder has the same quality signature as APATM titanium powders, namely good processing capability, high flow, high packing, low porosity and high purity. The powder maps well with AP&C’s existing product range and experience working with reactive and low-density metals.

“It’s great to add aluminium F357 to our portfolio,” says Alain Dupont, president and CEO at AP&C. “Our customers have been asking us to provide aluminium solutions to address the challenges they currently experience. We are confident that we’ve developed a solution which solves these challenges. The modular cell-based structure of our new plant in Saint-Eustache allows us to respond quickly to the additive industry’s demands as they evolve.”

Aluminium F357 alloy is known to have good weldability with high strength and toughness, offering good corrosion resistance and heat conductivity.