Isostatic Pressing Association Membership Benefits

  • The Isostatic Pressing Association is the only industrial trade association representing the business interests of the hot isostatic pressing / cold isostatic pressing processing community.

  • Association membership offers the only legally sanctioned opportunity for business competitors to network and work together.

  • All employees of member companies can attend Metal Powder Federation Industries conferences, purchase publications, and participate in educational seminars and short courses at a discount over the cost to non-members.

  • Membership entitles companies to participate on the Technical Board of the Federation, which is responsible for all MPIF technical activities and programs, and the Industry Development Board, responsible for promoting applications of powder metallurgy, hot isostatic pressing, cold isostatic pressing, and expanding the total market.

  • Through the MPIF Standards Committee, the Isostatic Pressing Association actively supports an industry standards development program that issues and updates materials standards for PM parts and products, including methods of test, on a regular basis. IPA members are eligible to vote on acceptance of these standards, which are used by many end users when specifying PM parts.

  • Members and their customers can participate in the annual MPIF Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition.

  • Isostatic Pressing Association membership can be your "eyes and ears" to assess shifts in the marketplace long before they are common knowledge.

  • Members receive a special discount for exhibiting at the annual MPIF POWDERMET conference.

  • IPA members receive the monthly e-newsletter MPIF Management Briefs, a summary of industry manufacturing and management updates and information.

  • IPA helps support a very effective PM parts marketing program aimed at end users, through which members receive sales leads.

  • Members meet several times each year.  Plant tours of association member companies and technical interactions among participants are the primary objectives.

  • Attendance at the MPIF Annual Meeting/PM Management Summit providing additional networking opportunities with customers.

  • Members receive quarterly statistics on metal powder shipments in North America, useful for industry trend analysis.

  • Members are listed and described, in the Who’s Who in Powder Metallurgy, on the MPIF websites in the PM Industry Online Database and can hotlink to their own website, thus increasing their market outreach.

  • IPA members have the opportunity to advertise through banner ads on the pickpm.com website.