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PyroGenesis Canada Inc., a high-tech corporation that designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes plasma waste-to-energy systems and plasma torch products, announced that it has signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with a second global aircraft engine manufacturer.
The name of the client has been withheld and will remain confidential for competitive reasons.
“We are very happy to have signed an NDA with a second global aircraft engine manufacturer in less than a month, and we look forward to developing a more substantive relationship with them,” said P. Peter Pascali, president and CEO of PyroGenesis.
“I must once again caution readers not to draw any premature conclusions from this announcement. Though, once again, it does signal an interest in our capabilities, and yes, that interest does come from a very discerning, demanding, and sophisticated party, we are still at the very preliminary stages and there is no guarantee that anything of any commercial value will materialize from these efforts.
“We feel that these recently concluded NDAs are material in the sense that they confirm both our strategy to become a powder producer to the additive manufacturing industry, as well as our premise that there is a significant demand within the additive manufacturing industry for our products.”
PyroGenesis is the inventor of Plasma Atomization, a plasma-based process that produces small, spherical, metal powders for the additive manufacturing (“AM”) industry, particularly 3D printing, and which has become the gold standard.
The corporation recently announced the successful completion of the ramp-up of its first plasma atomization system since announcing, in 2015, that it would become a supplier of powders to the AM industry.
During ramp-up, the corporation not only received several sample purchase orders, but also developed new intellectual property which effectively allows the manufacture of very narrow particle size distributions, at higher production rates, with little-to-no waste.
The corporation said it feels that this breakthrough could be even more game changing than its original Plasma Atomization patent.
