Don't be surprised if Eontec-500C will end up in Foxconn facility.
When Prof Li was asked about worldwide strategy on Amorphous alloy, He assured that he would turn Eontec to be the Amorphous alloy/Liquidmetal platform, looking to select competent factory as the raw material supplier, equipment supplier, thus forming cooperation to support the licensing for third part companies to carry out their production, Eontec will provide technical support when needed, that is the idea of franchising the Amorphous Alloy manufacturing to third party company. This is a known working business model to follow. Prof. Li has this vision 3 years ago, he is very clear on the target and its path to get to it in terms of the commercialization of the alloy. With the recent alliance of Eontec and Liquidmetal, we can expect to see a very fast adaptation of this new alloy and that is going to happen any minute from now.
It looks like the machine has Engle "guts" integrated.
5. Factory for related production equipment: Eontec, LQMT, Ingel (Austria) has joined force to start a China manufacturing point ready for the next generation of Amorphous alloy manufacturing.
It looks like Materion is out of the loop in the long run
4. Factory for Amorphous alloy raw material: Eontec and LQMT is planning to start our own facility to make our proprietory patented raw material ready for bulk supply to the industry, in another word, dominate the Amorphous alloy raw material supply market.
It looks like Phase 1 with Apple will be status quote. "Classic" formula + Materion + Engel
With involvement of Eontec, that relationship would shift gear to full speed from sample making to bulk supply by utilizing the existing raw materials, process and the equipment. That posts an enormous opportunity for all parties involved.
