Kinaltek Pty Ltd. is an innovation company based in Sydney, Australia, and specializing in novel technologies for materials processing. Over the past several years, the company carried out an extensive R&D program and demonstrated full proof of concept for a novel platform process for production of a wide range of inorganic powders based on 27 metals (Si, Ti, Cu, Zn, Ag, Fe, Co, Ni …). The technology is now covered by five international patent and patent applications.1
The technology builds on new scientific breakthroughs by Kinaltek, and is capable of producing a wide range of products including metallic powders, composites, catalysts, superalloys, and coated powders and substrates. Processing starts from low-cost precursors, and reactions are exothermic, requiring minimal energy and producing minimal waste. The technology has been demonstrated for coating glass powders for applications as metallic pigments, and this application is being developed and commercialized under the business name of KinCoat. KinCoat draws on the technology’s coating capability to produce metallic pigments through a low-energy, simplified methodology for applications in automotive, architecture, plastics and antimicrobial powders.