Yoshio Uetsuki, executive director of the Japan Powder Metallurgy Association (JPMA), reports on the state of the industry in his country and East Asia.
Environmental, efficient and cost-effective manufacturing and operating all point to PM as vital for the automotive sector.
Prof P Ramakrishnan, from the Indian Institute of Technology, reviews PM materials and processes and sets out how they benefit automotive makers.
Nupur Srivastava and Ajeet K. Srivastav from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India discuss how a sustainable metal supply chain could be derived from metal e-waste.
A team of University of Toronto engineering researchers is working to advance the field of metal additive manufacturing at the university's first metal 3D printing laboratory.
