Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Barney Vissur]

Thanks, Mech Tech - so we now know that the Be-free alloy certainly did not come about because of lack of cost concerns and because it was solely to pacify "medical" customers. In fact, that was a point Hauck made at the Engel conference about when he came on board that they (aka the "salespeople") said cost was a significant drawback to any sales.

When I was able to go last year, I was told they were working on many different types of alloys because I had asked the question as to whether you really need something 2-1/2 times the strength of titanium if you could make it 1-1/2 to 2 times the strength of titanium with the same cost, or less. I certainly didn't have a novel thought, but I'm sure they saw that issue when trying to sell and MTRN, Apple and LQMT helped address that with research into different alloys.