Various kinds of advanced high technology materials are going to be produced from metal and ceramics powder materials. In order to give the shape to the powder, the powder compaction process is one of the most important key technologies in the consolidation of powder material.
The authors have being investigated to develop new powder compaction and consolidation processes in the past 15 years. Sixteen new technologies which had been tried in the Nakagawa Laboratory of Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo are briefly reviewed in this paper.
