 Other authors also refer to this technology as spark plasma compaction (in reference to the well known Spark Plasma Sintering with whom it has in common only the use of electric currents).Capacitor discharge sintering is at an experimental/research stage of development in Germany at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum where a prototype machine is installed.Industrialization and evolution of the technology is ongoing in EPoS srl, a start-up company from Torino.