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Top five aluminium powders, pastes and flakes manufacturers in the world

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Aluminium powder is a granular powder which is obtained from pure molten aluminium metal. Aluminium paste is produced from aluminium powder or milled flake powder through the wet ball milling process. Aluminium flakes comes from aluminium powder through dry ball milling process. It is irregular in shape under microscopic examination.

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Aluminium powders, pastes, and flakes are widely used in industrial, automotive, chemical, construction, explosives, defence and aerospace and other sectors. Photovoltaic and electronic applications are the major consumer of aluminium pastes

According to the Technavio's report, the global aluminium powders, pastes, and flakes market to grow at a CAGR of 4.87% during the period 2016-2020.

The article covers top five aluminium powders, pastes and flakes manufacturers in the world. The list is dynamic and subject to change with changing market conditions, capacity expansion and curtailment, new entries in the market and divestments and mergers.

 Alcoa

Alcoa is a global industry leader in the production of bauxite, alumina and aluminium products. The company is the world’s fifth largest producer of aluminium.

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Alcoa manufactures around over 50 grades of aluminium powders by the atomization technique. The company has powder production plant at Rockdale and Pocos de Caldas that is completely governed by stringent quality control procedures, and the quality systems at both facilities have been certified to be in compliance with ISO 9002 standards.

Recently, Alcoa opened a 3D printing metal powder production plant located at the Alcoa Technology Center to boost the production of optimised powders for 3D printing for aerospace.

AMG Alpoco UK

AMG Alpoco UK is the producer of air and inert gas atomized aluminium powders, centrifugally spun/disintegrated aluminium needles and granules, and aluminium alloy powders. The company is a subsidiary of AMG Superalloys UK which manufactures a specialty products for the aluminium, steel, super alloy, hard-facing, welding, and glass industries.

AMG Alpoco UK’s aluminium powders are used in the pigment, paint, chemical, specialty alloys, powder metallurgy, brazing/welding, aluminothermic reaction, and propulsion industries.

ECKA Granules

ECKA Granules is a leading Germany based company engaged in production of atomized aluminium and aluminium alloy powders. The alloy powders are produced on pilot and production scale gas- and air-atomizers. The company has state-of-the-art atomising technology and powder processing capabilities. It offers safety standards guarantee with high-tech powder production to meet the need of the customer.

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The ECKA Granules is the world's largest manufacturer of aluminium metal powders, the company claims. It has its facility in Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Germany, Slovenia and the USA.

MEPCO

The Metal PowderCompany Limited (MEPCO) is one of the leading manufacturers of non-ferrous metal powders and pastes worldwide. With an ISO 9001 certification, the company has four manufacturing plants in India.

MEPCO produces a combined capacity of more than 50000 tonnes per annum. The company exports its product to more than 40 countries. MPMP, MSP, NALCO and ALCO are the subsidiaries of the company.

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MEPCO in the aluminium powders, pastes, and flakes sector provides products like aluminium, bismuth, calcium, silicide, cobalt, copper, silver, tin, tungsten, zinc, gold bronze, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon.

Rusal

A global aluminium producer Rusal is the Russia’s largest producer of aluminium powder. These products are used in ferrous and non-ferrous industries, defence industry, solar energy industry, electric industry, space industry, chemical industry and construction industry.

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On April this year, Rusal inked a Joint Venture (JV) agreement with Runaya Metsource on equal terms to produce high technology aluminium paste and powders in India.

Rusal’s Shelekhov Powder Metallurgy plant produces coarse and fine aluminium powder and aluminium paste. The company has over 40 years of experience of aluminium powder production. It has an annual production capacity of 19,000 tonnes of aluminium coarse and fine powders and pastes.

Some of the other prominent manufacturers of aluminium powers, pastes and flakes are Toyal, Ampal, Bahrain Atomizer, ECKART, Silberline and Valimet.

Technavio analyst Ajay Adikhari said, “Significant regional differences attribute to the varying rate of growth and development of the aluminum powders, pastes, and flakes market in different regions. APAC with a CAGR of over 5% is the fastest and the largest market globally. It has a large customer base, with the key vendors accounting for a major share of the market. In contrast to APAC, other regions such as Europe and North America have moderate customer bases.”

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