Tailored Powder Formulations for Your Application

At Powderloop, we work closely with customers to design and develop custom powder compositions that meet specific technical and commercial requirements. Whether you’re pushing performance, replacing critical materials or meeting sustainability goals, we can help.

Custom Powders

From R&D to Production

Tailored powder formulations built around your application. We develop bespoke hardmetal compositions to improve performance, reduce environmental impact and support your innovation.

We use a proprietary spray drying process to agglomerate elemental materials or fine carbides into spherical powders with good flowability and packing density. This allows us to work with minimum input materials: WC, CrC, W, Cr, Ti, Co, Ni, Fe and C. Our custom powder development is based on your requirements for:

Material composition, including non-strategic or sustainable alternatives, e.g. (W,Ti)C-Fe, (W,Ti)C-NiCr
In-situ alloying powders, formulated to form carbides directly during laser processing.
Particle size distribution, with screening options available.
Powder morphology, including agglomerated and sintered forms.
Batch size, from small-scale trials to larger pre-production runs.

Our Powder Manufacturing Process

Understanding

Coating process, service environment, substrate use.

Formulation

Hard phases and metal matrix composition.

Slurry Preparation

Weighing, mixing and ball milling elements.

Agglomeration

Atomisation, cyclone separation, examination.

Sintering

Vacuum-inert gas cycles, high temperature heating.

Classificaton

Sieving, weighing, blending.

Analysis

Chemical composition, particle and bulk properties.

Why Powderloop?

At Powderloop, we don’t just supply powders, we help you solve material challenges. Our powders are manufactured and tested in the UK, and we collaborate closely with customers to develop solutions that meet specific performance and process targets.

We specialise in:

Wear, thermal and corrosion resistance.

Tailored particle size distributions.

REACH-compliant, UK-based supply.

Our Commitment to Powder Quality

All of our powders undergo rigorous quality control, with each step of the process following defined standard operating procedures. From sourcing raw materials to agglomeration, sieving and classification, we ensure consistent, repeatable performance.

Our in-house lab testing includes:

Particle size analysis (ASTM B214, ISO 4497)
Flowability testing (ASTM B213, ISO 4490)
Apparent density measurements (ASTM B212, ISO 3923-1/2)
Scanning Electron Microscopy with EDS analysis
Chemical composition analysis via subcontracted lab