U.S.-based metal powder development

Custom alloy powders. Recycled titanium. Built for additive manufacturing.

Solid State Metal produces small development lots of custom alloy powder and is building a domestic supply of traceable titanium powder made from 100% recycled feedstock. We support tailored particle-size distributions, customer-supplied feedstock, and technical characterization for R&D, qualification, and production-development programs.

Small lots starting at 500 g*
Tailored particle-size distributions
Customer-supplied feedstock
U.S.-based manufacturing
Lot-level characterization
Two ways to work with us

Powder programs built around your material requirements.

Start with a small custom-alloy development campaign or evaluate a traceable, recycled titanium supply program.

Available for development programs

Custom Alloy Powder

Produce and evaluate new alloy compositions without committing to a large conventional atomization campaign. Development quantities can begin around 500 grams, with customer-defined chemistry, particle-size distribution, and characterization.

  • Customer-defined compositions
  • Small development quantities
  • Tailored LPBF, EBM, and DED cuts
  • Powder characterization available
Develop an Alloy
Qualification programs forming

Recycled Titanium Powder

A domestic titanium powder program using traceable, 100% recycled feedstock. Initial development focuses on Ti-6Al-4V powder for additive manufacturing applications where cost, source traceability, and domestic supply matter.

  • 100% recycled feedstock
  • U.S.-based manufacturing
  • Lot-level source documentation
  • Chemistry and interstitial testing
Discuss Titanium Supply

*Minimum quantities and delivered yield depend on alloy chemistry, feedstock form, processing route, and target particle-size distribution.

Why Solid State Metal

Designed for programs conventional powder suppliers do not prioritize.

Small lots

Begin material development without purchasing a production-scale atomization campaign.

Flexible specifications

Define the composition, feedstock, quantity, particle-size distribution, and test package around the technical objective.

Qualification-minded data

Receive traceable powder supported by agreed chemistry, interstitial, PSD, morphology, flow, and density measurements.

Project workflow

From material requirement to characterized powder.

Each project begins with a defined technical objective and ends with documented material, not just a container of powder.

01

Define

Establish composition, feedstock, quantity, target PSD, additive process, and acceptance criteria.

02

Produce

Prepare the feedstock and execute the selected powder-production process.

03

Classify

Sieve or classify the powder into the required particle-size range.

04

Characterize

Measure agreed chemistry, interstitials, PSD, morphology, flow, and density.

05

Deliver

Package the powder with lot identification and the agreed technical data package.

Solid State Metal · Technical Data Sheet

Ti-6Al-4V (Grade 5) Highly Spherical Powder

Document
SSM-TDS-TI64-001
Revision
Rev A
Date
2026-03-04

Particle Size Distribution Options

  • 0–25 µm
  • 0–45 µm
  • 15–45 µm
  • 45–105 µm

Non-standard PSDs available on request.

Morphology / Sphericity

Example morphology and sphericity histogram from the Ti-6Al-4V Grade 5 technical data sheet

Representative Micrographs

Representative wide-field micrograph of Ti-6Al-4V Grade 5 spherical powder
Representative powder field · 500 µm scale
Representative close-up micrograph of highly spherical Ti-6Al-4V Grade 5 powder
Representative morphology · 100 µm scale

Chemistry — Provided Values

Fe O C N H Ti Al V
0.22 0.12–0.20 0.05 0.03 0.015 BAL 5.50–6.75 3.5–4.5

Values shown are provided for reference. Actual chemistry and particle-size distribution are reported on the Certificate of Analysis for each lot.

Published product data

Ti-6Al-4V Grade 5 powder specifications.

The Rev A technical data sheet identifies four standard particle-size distributions, representative highly spherical morphology, and reference chemistry values for Solid State Metal Ti-6Al-4V Grade 5 powder.

Standard PSDs 0–25, 0–45, 15–45, and 45–105 µm
Custom sizing Non-standard PSDs available on request
Morphology Representative highly spherical powder
Lot documentation Actual chemistry and PSD reported on each CoA
Applications

Supporting materials development from alloy exploration through qualification.

Aerospace and defense

Custom compositions, domestic-material programs, and controlled powder lots for advanced-manufacturing development.

Universities and national laboratories

Small quantities for alloy discovery, process research, and experimental material programs.

New alloy development

Rapid screening of compositions before committing to large melt and production campaigns.

LPBF material qualification

Controlled lots for parameter development, density coupons, microstructure, and mechanical-property testing.

Powder DED

Coarser powder fractions for deposition development, repair, and higher-rate applications.

AM parameter development

Consistent material lots for studying process windows, repeatability, and powder-to-part relationships.

Material status

Built for qualification. Transparent about status.

Solid State Metal distinguishes between development material, specification-targeted material, and customer-qualified production material.

Unless explicitly stated in a quotation or certificate of analysis, materials should not be considered approved for flight hardware, medical implants, or other safety-critical applications.

Development material

Produced for research, feasibility, and initial print evaluation.

Specification-targeted material

Tested against an agreed chemistry, PSD, and powder-property target.

Customer-qualified material

Evaluated and approved through the customer’s application-specific process.

Start a project

Have an alloy, feedstock stream, or particle-size requirement that standard powder suppliers will not support?

Send us your material, quantity, target PSD, and characterization requirements. We will complete an initial technical feasibility review before preparing a proposal.

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