PARIS, FRANCE, June 20, 2023 - Norsk Titanium AS (Euronext: NTI, OTCQX: NORSF)
and QuesTek® Innovations LLC (QuesTek) have announced a collaboration to advance
the breakthrough use of nickel alloy wire in directed energy deposition (DED)
additive manufacturing. This development effort provides manufacturers an
alternative to castings for large aerospace and industrial components, bypassing
significant supply chain delays and shortening long lead times.

Materials engineering leader QuesTek will collaborate with Norsk to accelerate
the timeline for perfecting the use of nickel wire in additive manufacturing. 
Using their ICMD® materials engineering software platform, QuesTek will model
the full range of potential heat treatment temperatures and times that will
yield the necessary properties including strength and corrosion resistance.

Norsk Titanium AS, a global leader in metal 3D printing will apply the QuesTek
modeling to their proprietary Rapid Plasma Deposition® (RPD®) technology and
provide real world test results to their end customer, rapidly advancing the
technology readiness level of the alloy.  Applying Norsk's innovative process to
a nickel-based wire will open new applications and components that can be
manufactured quickly, without the need for lengthy and expensive casting
development.

"Our customer contacted us to ask if we would be willing to tackle this problem
in support of a US government need.  With our partner QuesTek, we are ready to
rise to the occasion," says Norsk vice president of product development Nicholas
Mayer. "We reached out to QuesTek to support the tight timelines.  Their
modeling capability allows us to dramatically reduce the amount of traditional
testing that would be required to develop the additive parameters and subsequent
heat treatment."

The optimal heat treatment could be anywhere within a several-hundred-degree
range and with a potential duration of less than an hour or more than a day. 
Using traditional trial-and-error methods might require dozens of test cases,
which would be costly, time-consuming, and not be feasible on components this
large. Drawing on data from decades of experience in modeling materials
including nickel alloys, QuesTek will use ICMD® to significantly narrow the
number of test cases needed to just a few.

"This is a very fitting challenge for QuesTek's team of materials engineering
experts and our ICMD® software platform," says QuesTek business development
director Jeff Grabowski. "We look forward to working with Norsk's team to
advance the boundaries of additive manufacturing as quickly as possible to
remove delays in the industrial supply chain and provide an urgent solution to
the government."

Norsk and QuesTek previously collaborated in 2018 and 2019 on titanium alloys
for Norsk's RPD® process that targeted increased light weighting and component
life.

See how Norsk Titanium is innovating the future of metal at the 54th Paris
Airshow June 19-23, Hall 3 Booth F42.


About Norsk Titanium

Norsk Titanium is a global leader in metal 3D printing, innovating the future of
metal manufacturing by enabling a paradigm shift to a clean and sustainable
manufacturing process. With its proprietary Rapid Plasma Deposition® (RPD®)
technology and 700 MT of production capacity, Norsk Titanium offers
cost-efficient 3D printing of value-added metal parts to a large addressable
market. RPD® technology uses significantly less raw material, energy, and time
than traditional energy-intensive forming methods, presenting customers with an
opportunity to better manage input costs, logistics, and environmental impact.
RPD® printed parts are already flying on commercial aircraft, and Norsk Titanium
has gained significant traction with large defense and industrial customers.

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About QuesTek®

QuesTek empowers innovators by resolving materials-based challenges. QuesTek is
both a pioneer and current market leader in Integrated Computational Materials
Engineering (ICME). QuesTek's Materials by Design® technologies have enabled new
products and new thresholds of performance across a wide range of industries
including aerospace, automotive, medical devices, consumer electronics and
luxury goods. QuesTek's ICMD® SaaS offering has packaged all of QuesTek's IP and
know-how into a client-accessible software platform for the first time. QuesTek
Innovations is the primary operating subsidiary of QuesTek International LLC and
is headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. QuesTek has additional locations in
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Solna, Sweden; and Tokyo. questek.com

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