Founded in 1996 by Mr. Andrew Sherman, Powdermet's President/CEO, the company's Vision is Clean, Green, Sustainable Materials Solutions. Powdermet develops, matures, and transitions breakthrough materials innovations that enable reduced weight, reduced resource consumption, reduced environmental footprint, reduced life cycle costs, and increase energy efficiency based on value-creation gained through engineered nano-scale features and hierarchically structures of metal and/or ceramic phases in a structure. They have an extensive proprietary technology base and application data in materials compositions, structures, and manufacturing processes incorporating nano-scale and sub-micron features into engineering materials through powder metallurgy and ceramic processing techniques.