We continued to be surprised at the growth in Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIPPING) around the world. It would appear that a unit has been recently installed at a Italian company-read on; “A Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) from Quintus Technologies will enable advanced thermal spray coatings specialist Flame Spray SpA to respond to growing demand for the densification and heat treatment process as additive manufacturing (AM) increasingly takes hold in aerospace parts production.”