Winners in the 2025 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Award!

The winners in the 2025 Powder Metallurgy (PM) Design Excellence Awards competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), demonstrate outstanding examples of PM’s diversity and ability to meet critical requirements. From electric vehicles to musical instruments to semiconductors, once again, parts fabricators have demonstrated PM’s versatility and unique ability to challenge competing technologies. These award-winning components use PM’s flexibility to push forward new concepts and process controls to demonstrate the inexhaustible range of PM’s capabilities.

Eleven Grand Prizes and twelve Awards of Distinction were given in this year's competition, segmented into 3 categories: Conventional Press and Sinter PM; Metal Injection Molding (MIM); and Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM).

GRAND PRIZE AWARDS

In the Automotive—Engine Category for Conventional PM components, a Grand Prize has been awarded to DSB Technologies for a stainless-steel flange that connects a urea injector to the exhaust system of a diesel engine. Machining operations are utilized to add additional features that are not possible during compaction such as undercuts, a steep cone, and a threaded hole. The part experiences elevated temperatures and is exposed to urea, which requires the part to have high corrosion resistance. The part is welded onto the exhaust system, necessitating good weldability of the material used to make the part.