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 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "cite_as": "Nozzle4, https://nozzle4.com/data/",
 "note": "Compiled by Nozzle4 from the sources linked on each row. The facts belong to their sources; the compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0, so use it with a credit and a link.",
 "slug": "howmet-aerospace",
 "name": "Howmet Aerospace",
 "status": "listed",
 "status_label": "Listed",
 "segment": "Aerospace, defence and energy buyers",
 "page": "https://nozzle4.com/companies/howmet-aerospace/",
 "listing": {
  "exchange": "NYSE",
  "ticker": "HWM",
  "tradingview_symbol": "NYSE:HWM"
 },
 "headquarters": "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States",
 "founded": null,
 "ownership": "Listed on NYSE (HWM)",
 "technologies": [
  "titanium powder",
  "nickel powder",
  "aluminium powder",
  "structural parts"
 ],
 "description": "Makes jet engine components and fasteners, and reached additive through the Alcoa acquisitions it grew out of. The public record shows powder production, a research programme with Airbus and a patent lead in titanium; it has not detailed which printed parts it ships.",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-23",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "Jul 2015",
   "title": "Alcoa completes its purchase of RTI International Metals, which adds capability to produce 3D printed titanium, specialty metal and plastic parts",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.howmet.com/press-release/2015-07-23/alcoa-completes-acquisition-of-rti-international-metals-growing-multi-material-aerospace-portfolio/"
  },
  {
   "date": "2016",
   "title": "Opens a metal powder production facility near Pittsburgh for 3D printing, part of a 60 million dollar investment across several US sites",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/the-additive-edge-howmets-role-in-reinventing-aerospace-manufacturing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2016",
   "title": "Begins a collaboration with Airbus to supply 3D printed titanium fuselage and engine pylon components",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/the-additive-edge-howmets-role-in-reinventing-aerospace-manufacturing"
  },
  {
   "date": "Nov 2017",
   "title": "Signs a multi-year research agreement with Airbus to develop structural 3D printed metal parts up to about a metre long",
   "detail": "Signed under the Arconic name that Howmet was part of before the 2020 split.",
   "source": "https://www.howmet.com/press-release/2017-11-15/arconic-airbus-to-advance-3d-printing-for-aerospace-under-multi-year-cooperative-research-agreement/"
  },
  {
   "date": "2024",
   "title": "A GlobalData report ranks Howmet first in the world for patent filings on titanium alloy 3D printing for aerospace and defence, ahead of Boeing, RTX and Safran",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/the-additive-edge-howmets-role-in-reinventing-aerospace-manufacturing"
  }
 ]
}