Equipment for producing metal alloys, metal alloy powder or alloyed material specially designed to avoid contamination and specially designed for use in one of the following processes: (a) Vacuum atomization; (b) Gas atomization; (c) Rotary atomization; (d) Splat quenching; (e) Melt spinning and comminution; (f) Melt extraction and comminution; (g) Mechanical alloying; or (h) Plasma atomization.

1B002

IX.A1.007

ANNEX III - CATEGORY 1 — SPECIAL MATERIALS AND RELATED EQUIPMENT

1B - Test, Inspection and Production Equipment

EU Regulation No 267/2012

Metal powder “production equipment” usable for the “production”, in a controlled environment, of spherical, spheroidal or atomised materials specified in 4.C.2.c., 4.C.2.d. or 4.C.2.e. Note: 4.B.3.d. includes: a. Plasma generators (high frequency arc-jet) usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders with organization of the process in an argon-water environment; b. Electroburst equipment usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders with organization of the process in an argon-water environment; c. Equipment usable for the “production” of spherical aluminium powders by powdering a melt in an inert medium (e.g. nitrogen). Notes: 1. The only batch mixers, continuous mixers, usable for solid propellants or propellants constituents specified in 4.C., and fluid energy mills specified in 4.B., are those specified in 4.B.3. 2. Forms of metal powder “production equipment” not specified in 4.B.3.d. are to be evaluated in accordance with 4.B.2.