2025 edition of MPIF Standard Test Methods now available
December 19, 2024

The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has released the 2025 edition of ‘Standard Test Methods’. This new volume contains fifty-two standards covering terminology and recommended methods of test for metal powders, Powder Metallurgy and Metal Injection Molding, PM equipment, and metal Additive Manufacturing.
The 2025 edition includes many revised standards and updated figures, as well as four new standards:
- Standard 76—Determination of Ejection Stresses for Uniaxially Compacted Powder Metallurgy (PM) Test Specimens
- Standard 77—Test Method for Preparing and Evaluating Un-notched Charpy Impact Energy Specimens of Materials Produced from Metal Powders by Sinter-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing (Metal AM) Technologies
- Standard 78—Test Method for Preparing and Evaluating V-Notched Charpy Impact Energy Specimens of Materials Produced from Metal Powders by Fusion-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing (Metal AM) Technologies
- Standard 79—Test Method for Preparation of AC and DC Soft-Magnetic Powder Metallurgy (PM) Test Specimens
The most current versions of all included standards are required by quality assurance programmes in order to maintain full compliance. All earlier editions of ‘Standard Test Methods’ are now obsolete.
Those interested can order here. MPIF members receive a discount on purchasing.