Norsk Titanium Receives Boeing Engineering Test Article Order

Norsk Titanium, a provider of aerospace-grade, additive manufactured components has received an order for titanium engineering test articles from The Boeing Company. The order involves Norsk Titanium producing titanium Ti-6Al-4V additive manufactured preforms, and delivering them to Boeing for further testing and evaluation, a press release states.

The parts will be created with Norsk's Rapid Plasma Desposition (RPD) process. According to the company, the manufacture, test and analysis of Norsk Titanium’s RPD. preforms is designed to demonstrate part to part repeatability and the operations processes necessary to enter into long term production of structural components for fleet aircraft.

“I’d like to congratulate the Boeing and Norsk teams on achieving this milestone through many months of diligence and hard work,” said Chet Fuller, chief commercial officer at Norsk Titanium. “Although it is still early in the qualification process, we are pleased with the steady progress, including evaluations of our MERKE IV production machine, as well as this latest test article order. This activity follows evaluations of the MERKE III production machine, qualified under the Boeing Material Specification, back in February.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.