Plasma can make powders for coatings or standalone components via different processes such as 3D printing, El-Form®, and more. One of our specialties is to provide custom solutions for our customers so that they can test specific alloys or multi-layered solutions for challenging requirements or situations. Using the PAS system, Plasma can create lots of 1 kg up to 100 kg of any custom material solution, including alloys. Our powders that make coatings or components are generally used for high-performance or high-temperature applications. Our facilities allow us to test these materials in-house which is beneficial for providing risk reduction and trades in early efforts of programs. This is an ideal situation for when programs are trying to identify and test new material solutions for next generation technologies. For testing applications, we provide microhardness, bond strength, arc-jet testing, super-sonic combustion flame testing, and more. Our in-house ability allows us to provide design for manufacturability (DFM) and estimated material allowables that can be used in simulation of the technology, as well as proving it out in actual test to help with the commercialization phase. If you need a specific type of material for 3D printing, your own processing, or for us to process into a finer powder, please do not hesitate to reach out as we can refine most materials with our processes in-house.

Plasma has its own coatings it has developed in-house for a variety of solutions, but mostly for TPS, TBC, Radiation, and other environmental barrier coatings. Some of these are things like variants of MoSi2, YSZ, Oxides, and other carbides or ceramics. Something that makes us unique is we apply both our own in-house materials as well as other sourced materials. We can also process the powders through PAS in order to make them better for processing or mixing them with other materials to make more custom solutions. Single element and alloys are available from essentially any element within the periodic table, pretty much if it melts, we can process the material; which also allows us to provide superior flow material with high packing densities in prototype or bulk quantities. We welcome inquires of all scales, prototype quantities all the way through to production scale.