The company reportedly received Environmental Claim Validation Procedure 2809 which evaluates the recycled content of a material.
“UL recycled content validation is important as titanium metal powder for additive manufacturing can only be used a limited number of times before quality is impacted by contaminants or inferior powder morphology,” the company said.
IperionX says that it can use 100% scrap titanium as feedstock to produce its powder, which according to a recent life cycle assessment (LCA), has the lowest quantified life cycle carbon footprint for commercial titanium powder, with a potential life cycle carbon footprint of 7.8 kg of carbon dioxide equivalents (“O2e) per kg. This forecast carbon footprint is over 90% lower than competing titanium powders produced from plasma atomization, 80% lower than from titanium ingot produced from the Kroll process, more than 50% lower than aluminium ingot, and near equal to stainless steel ingot, IperionX said.
