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title: Fifty years of advanced materials | Osprey
description: From a foundry in Neath in 1974 to independence in 2026. The record, the patents and the qualifications behind Osprey's materials.
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03 | Heritage

# Fifty years of earning the right

Heritage is not nostalgia. It is evidence. Every year on the record exists to prove one thing — that when the tolerance is unforgiving and the standard is absolute, Osprey delivers, and has done since 1974.

The record | I

## Foundations

1974 – 1999

1. 1974 Founded as Osprey Metals — Milland Road, Neath, Wales.
2. 1978 First powder atomiser developed; first technology licence sold, to Deloro.
3. 1979 Spray-forming licence sold to Sandvik Steel.
4. 1984 Patent RE31767 — shaped articles from sprayed molten metal.
5. 1985 Becomes part of Sandvik.
6. 1986 Patent 4779802 — gas metal atomiser.
7. 1989 Queen's Award for Export Achievement.
8. 1990 Patent 5110631 — metal spray deposits.
9. 1995 Fine-powder plant commissioned.

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The record | II

## Proof, compounded

2000 – 2026

1. 2001 Patent 6312535 — silicon alloys for electronic packaging.
2. 2002 ISO 9001 achieved.
3. 2004 ISO 14001 achieved.
4. 2008 VIGA plant commercialised in Sandviken.
5. 2010 Queen's Award for Enterprise, International Trade.
6. 2012 POW 8 — first one-tonne fine-powder plant commissioned.
7. 2019 POW 11 commissioned; titanium EIGA plant inaugurated in Sandviken.
8. 2021 AS9100D aerospace quality in Sandviken and ISO 45001 achieved.
9. 2024 Fifty years of operation.
10. 2026 Independence — Osprey stands on its own with Mimir as new owner.

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The evidence

## We prefer evidence to adjectives

50

Years of metallurgy

11

Atomising plants

2

Queen's Awards

1984

Patents filed

AS9100D (Sandviken) | ISO 9001 | ISO 14001 | ISO 45001

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Independence

## For fifty years we have earned the right to build what comes next

Independence is not a break with the past. It is the point the whole record was always moving toward — a platform with the metallurgy, the plants and the qualifications to stand on its own, and to decide its own next fifty years.

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