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Epson Atmix Installs New Production Line at Its Kita-Inter Plant

Tuesday 28. May 2019 - Epson Atmix Corporation has installed and began operation of a new production line for amorphous alloy powder production at its Kita-Inter Plant, in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. A group company of Seiko Epson Corporation (Epson, TSE: 6724), Epson Atmix is the worlds leading2 manufacturer of superfine alloy powder. Epson Atmix has invested approximately 800 million yen to install the new line and plans to increase its amorphous alloy powder production capacity in stages to approximately 6,000 tons per year by 2023.

Epson Atmix’s superfine alloy powders are used as raw material in a host of high-performance components found in products ranging from automobiles and smartphones to wearable products and medical equipment. In 2004, Epson Atmix believes it was the first company in the world to successfully volume-produce amorphous alloy powder using an original production method called SWAP*3 (spinning water atomization process). Amorphous alloy powders have high magnetic flux densities and low energy loss in addition to excellent high-frequency characteristics. These characteristics make amorphous alloy powders extremely attractive as performance-enhancing, highly functional material powders that enable small, low-power voltage control components and that support high frequencies and large currents.
Demand from the smartphone, wearable product, low-power component, and automotive industries in particular has been growing by the year, and this trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Epson Atmix built its new factory in 2017 and has installed its new production line to meet expanding demand for these powders.
Epson Atmix is committed to leveraging its unique metal powder manufacturing technology to continue to create customer-pleasing, trusted products and services.