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Attendees and presenters at the 2024 ITSA Annual Meeting posed for a group photo at AWS World Headquarters in Miami, Fla.
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2024 ITSA Annual Meeting Brings Members Together in Miami

The International Thermal Spray Association (ITSA) welcomed attendees of the 2024 ITSA Annual Meeting to AWS World Headquarters in Miami, Fla., on November 6 and 7.

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The primary valve at the Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric Plant with in-place machining equipment (blue/yellow) is visible on the right. Valve scale is 11 ft. I.D. (Photo courtesy of Voith and Oglethorpe Power.)
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A Cold Spray Solution for Pumped Hydropower

Cold spray (CS) is a materials consolidation process whereby micron-sized particles of a metal, ceramic, and/or polymer are accelerated through a spray gun fitted with a de Laval rocket nozzle to form a coating or a near-net-shaped part by means of ballistic impingement 

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Combining cold spray and friction stir processing results in an oxide-dispersion-strengthened steel plate with uniform, refined grains and nanosized particles. (Image by Ben Watson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.)
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The International Thermal Spray Association (ITSA) has elected Ashley Hunsaker as its new vice chair. Hunsaker has been the CEO of HTS Coatings LLC, Madison, Ill., a thermal spray, machining, and grinding company she founded and has operated alongside her husband, Jason, since 2015. HTS Coatings has been a member of ITSA for two years.

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It’s hard to believe that we are already a quarter of the way through 2025. The year has been off to a promising start, and the ITSA Executive Board has been working hard, with promising results.

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