Abstract
PowdermatriX is part of the UK Materials Knowledge Transfer Network. It promotes innovation and technology transfer in advanced ceramics, powder metals, hardmetals, magnetic materials and pharmaceutical powders and helps its members by signposting the best technical advice and developing new collaborations and projects. Engineering the Green State of Powder Products has been a major PowdermatriX and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) project providing knowledge and insight into net shape forming of powder compacts by die pressing. Running since 2004, the project concluded with an Open Industrial Workshop at CERAM Research, Stoke-on-Trent on 27 September 2007, which attracted over 40 delegates (Fig. 1).