Ames Laboratory spinoff in running as America's Next Top Energy Innovator
Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies is one of several companies vying for the title of America's Next Top Energy Innovator as part of a program sponsored by the Department of Energy to help start-up companies license technology developed at the national laboratories. The public will be able to vote early in 2012 to help choose the company that will be honored as the Top Energy Innovator.
IPAT, based in Nevada, Iowa, is using gas atomization technology developed at Ames Laboratory to make titanium powder with processes that are ten times more efficient than traditional powder-making methods — significantly lowering the cost of the powder to manufacturers.
