MONTREAL — Montreal-based manufacturer Advanced Powders & Coatings (AP&C) has announced the commissioning and inauguration of its new titanium powder manufacturing factory located in Saint-Eustache, Que.
AP&C is the world’s largest supplier of titanium powder for additive manufacturing and two years ago embarked on planning to create a second production facility to meet rising demand, noted a recent media statement.
Additive manufacturing, sometimes called 3-D printing, is the process of adding and joining layer-upon-layer of metal powder to create complex objects. AP&C’s titanium powder, created in silo-like reactors using a process called Advanced Plasma Atomization, is sold mainly to manufacture airplane engines and artificial joints, including knees and hips.
The $31-million investment in the new facility will create 106 new jobs over the next three years, with 50 per cent of them being hired by the end of 2017.
Swedish-based Arcam, prominent in electron beam melting processes used in building additive manufacturing machines, was AP&C’s biggest customer before Arcam acquired the supplier three years ago.
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