News: Breakthrough for Metalysis with sand to metal process
Metalysis, the Rotherham-based technology innovator for the speciality metals industry, has developed an innovative process to create useful metals from beach sand.
The Manvers company holds the worldwide exploitation rights to the FCC Cambridge process which sees specialist powder metals created in a simple, cost effective process with significant environmental benefits.
The electrochemical reduction process is used to produce titanium, tantalum, and related high value alloys.
Now, the investor and grant backed Cambridge University spin out has worked out how to transform natural rutile sands directly into titanium metal powder in a single step. Rutile is a naturally occurring titanium ore present in beach sands. The new rutile derived titanium powder, can be used in a variety of new applications to satisfy the latent demand for a low cost, light weight, high strength and corrosion resistant metal.
Metalysis' FCC process uses less energy than traditional processes as it does not require the melting of metals, and the salt used in producing the metals can be recycled. It also means that innovative alloys can be tailored to have the desired properties for applications within a variety of industries including automotive, marine, electronics, clean energy and aerospace.
Guppy Dhariwal, CEO of Metalysis, said: "Metalysis has spent a significant period of time and resource developing a process that can produce titanium powder from a relatively inexpensive feedstock in a single step. We now expect that our process will have a transformational effect on the metals industry through the production of titanium on a greater scale, at a lower cost and in an environmentally benign manner."
Metalysis website
Images: metalysis.com
The Manvers company holds the worldwide exploitation rights to the FCC Cambridge process which sees specialist powder metals created in a simple, cost effective process with significant environmental benefits.
The electrochemical reduction process is used to produce titanium, tantalum, and related high value alloys.
Now, the investor and grant backed Cambridge University spin out has worked out how to transform natural rutile sands directly into titanium metal powder in a single step. Rutile is a naturally occurring titanium ore present in beach sands. The new rutile derived titanium powder, can be used in a variety of new applications to satisfy the latent demand for a low cost, light weight, high strength and corrosion resistant metal.
Metalysis' FCC process uses less energy than traditional processes as it does not require the melting of metals, and the salt used in producing the metals can be recycled. It also means that innovative alloys can be tailored to have the desired properties for applications within a variety of industries including automotive, marine, electronics, clean energy and aerospace.
Guppy Dhariwal, CEO of Metalysis, said: "Metalysis has spent a significant period of time and resource developing a process that can produce titanium powder from a relatively inexpensive feedstock in a single step. We now expect that our process will have a transformational effect on the metals industry through the production of titanium on a greater scale, at a lower cost and in an environmentally benign manner."
Metalysis website
Images: metalysis.com
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