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No kidding. Boy I have now been so enlightened!
Not board at all!
Looking forward to a very exciting summer, and expect we will be in the
.20s soon!!
I highly doubt it.
Especially since they are already spending millions on new patents!
The sim card tool was used by Apple as a test to determine the viability of this material for the phone, and other Apple products which lead to a license and Apple now investing millions on liquidmetal patents. I would call this a success!
But you just want to throw it into the past with no relevance!
Sorry one CANNOT pick and choose what they bring forth from the past and only focus on what they want to highlight as a failure.
The sim ejector tool was a success and grabbed Apples attention. They are now spending millions on patents.
THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THEY WILL INDEED USE THEIR TRUSTED PARTNER LIQUIDMETAL AND TOM STEIPP FOR PRODUCTION OF LIQUIDMETAL PARTS!
They used Liquidmetal in the past, they will do so again for production!
Well, they signed up for a license agreement, and have been cracking out liquidmetal patents the last 6 years since the sim ejector tool!
All this talk about overlooking Liquidmetal to manufacture products fails to acknowledge the Apple/Liquidmetal partnership and capability of Liquidmetal to mass produce through EONTEC!
How many ways does it need to be said that Apple has already used Liquidmetal the company to manufacture the SIM card tool.
Funny how some want to cry manipulation as soon as the stock turns green!
Apple already used LQMT to manufacture the SIM card ejector tool. So what you propose Apple won't do has already been done, and will be done again!
Get it!
Looks real to me! The shares traded hands!
Wow! Are you kidding!
I don't believe your argument holds water!
Do you not realize that Apple has indeed already used liquidmetal for their liquidmetal sim key for the iPhone!
I hope no one sold off their shares this week in hope of getting in at a lower price.
Next week we will be back up much higher!
Looking forward to the summer!
Long and strong!
Don't worry, I am confident liquidmetal will make millions off of Apple when they are involved in manufacturing Apples first liquidmetal parts!
Ha, I almost spit my coffee!
Comparing the incompetence of VPC and firing them to the billion dollar enterprise of Apple and our trusted partnership and relationship with them doesn't hold water!
Anyone else care to try?
Apple has already used liquidmetal to produce the sim key in the past.
There next use of liquidmetal will also be for a small part. There is no need to divi this out to several companies. Liquidmetal would have full capability, especially with EONTEC, to produce the parts.
This could certainly be a situation where we have the best machines and capability for mass production of BMG.
No good reason why Apple wouldn't use liquidmetal, and no reason why Apple would have to pay more for the parts if EONTEC is involved. It just means liquidmetal and EONTEC get a piece of the pie.
Still haven't heard any good reasons for why Apple wouldn't go through there trusted partner Liquidmetal!
Everyone knows the license agreement does not produce anymore revenue. This old news.
However, there is nothing prohibiting Apple from going through liquidmetal for manufacturing. Sure they can use company's like Foxconn, but the can also go through liquidmetal for manufacturing.
Licensing and manufacturing are two totally separate issues. The first will not produce revenue for Apple, the second most certainly will when Apple goes through liquidmetal!
Get the difference!
Actually the material Liquidmetal acts as an antenna. Thinness has nothing to do with it.
Why would they not want to?
1) Liquidmetal is a trusted partner of Apple!
2) Liquidmetal and Apple are producing patents together!
3) Liquidmetal and Apple scientists have worked together on approved patents.
4) Apple endorsed Steipp as CEO when Kang was ousted!
All good reasons why Apple will use Liquidmetal in manufacturing process!
BIG REVENUE COMMING FOR LIQUIDMETAL BY WAY OF APPLE!!!
Not to worry. The contracts will be forth coming, before summer ends.
Those selling their shares right now, will be surprised when they see the share price rise exponentially!
The potential is enormous as we saw when the stock moved very quickly from .13 to .18 just on the news of the share increase approved.
Imagine what will happen when the first substantial contract is announced, or when Apple announces liquidmetal parts in their products.
Holding long and looking forward to our summer!
It's certainly possible Apple is implementing the touch-sensitive home button in iPhone 7. The patent was granted this year. Might be in part why Luggee Li is putting up his 64 million. Would be nice to see Li and Liquidmetal involved in the manufacturing.
"Apple has been testing a touch-sensitive home button for its upcoming flagship handset.
In March, Apple was also granted a patent for a pressure-sensitive Liquidmetal home button that deforms slightly when pressed, but returns to its normal shape when the user removes their finger or thumb."
Jollymon the information you report is totally innacurate.
At the time Steipp proclaimed in the midst of parts being shipped the stock price was less than .50 per share not one dollar. This false information puts you in jeopardy of losing all CREDIBILITY on this board.
I was invested in the stock at that time, and I can tell you that I never interpreted Steipps "in the midst statement" as a production order. We were no where near this phase in our development.
Those who misinterpreted his statement failed to understand the broader context that we were in at the time.
Sure that's why a respected and successful Chinese business man is investing 64 million of his hard earned cash in the company!
Only a fool would invest in a management who has lost all credibility. Lugee is no fool.
Only ones I hear arguing lack of credibility of management are a few on this board.
No such proclamations coming from reputable partners like Apple, Materion, Engel, and now EONTEC!
I agree. I believe Steipp/Hauck when the say they are predicting 12-14 orders in the range of 27 million dollars this year.
It's really the first time I have seen Management talk about orders with a dollar figure. Steipp has been very cautious in doing this the last 6 years.
I believe Steipp knows that if he doesn't come through this year with substantial contracts he will lose all credibility and the stock price will plunge to an all time low by end of the year.
He and Hauck seemed very confident and sure of orders this year.
I believe we will be in the low dollars soon.
"billionaire Chinese entrepreneur wades in, money
coming, all those RFQ's, German engineering all over this"
Thanks for the reminder of so many positives for this stock.
It really has been amazing to see so many advancements made with this company and technology just in the last year!
Jolly put me down for .23 this week.
Thanks!
Don't worry the price will spike soon so you can buy in over .20!
I don't see the stock price going down much more. It's a push and pull between bears and bulls.
But as soon as a contract is announced or a PR regarding the 54 million from Lugee Li, we will be .30+
This could happen any day. Investors know this and the Bulls are holding tight on to their shares!
Looking forward to summer. Holding long for that next contract announcement.
Liquid metal enjoys huge market potential
2016-06-13
By Qin Haibo
Recently, U.S. Turing Machine Engineering Industry Co., Ltd. announced that the first liquid metal phone in the world is planned to launch successively to customers in May. Claimed as "unbreakable", this Turing phone has a liquid metal casing whose strength is much higher than steel and titanium, able to protect mobile phone from being impacted and screen from being broken. In the official video, we can see that a Turing phone is thrown to a wall and bounce onto hard concrete ground, and there is almost no damage of mobile phone case and screen after repeating the above test twice.
Not just Turing, iPhone has been reserving patents in the field of liquid metal all the time, and has adopted liquid metal for BisonFone in previous iPhones, which will not cause any bending or deformation. Although iPhone 6s does not adopt the widely expected "liquid metal + sapphire" model, namely liquid metal for phone material and sapphire for screen, the model is expected to be widely used in iPhone7 and iPhone8.
"Besides mobile phone and other consumer electronic products, liquid metal can also be widely applied in aviation, automobile, precise instrument, medical equipment and others, which has a bright market prospect," according to Executive Secretary of Amorphous Alloy Branch of Chinese Society for Metals, Zhang Hua.
Expected to enter explosive growth
Liquid metal, also called amorphous alloy, is one of the new materials which have attracted much attention. "Traditional metal materials are of crystal structure, while amorphous alloy is formed under ultra rapid cold-curing. There is no time left for atoms to arrange crystallizations in order during alloy solidification, thus gaining it many unique performances, such as outstanding corrosion resistance, abrasion resistance, high strength, high hardness, etc." A researcher in Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Haifeng said, "Colloquial speaking, liquid metal has advantages of high strength, corrosion resistance, excellent ductility, light weight, etc.".
Researcher of non-ferrous industry from Essence Securities, Qi Ding believes that the large-scaled commercial application of liquid metal may firstly be realized in 3C product structure member. The above comment is mainly based on the following three reasons: Firstly, there is a close contact between 3C product and users, and 3C product needs to be made by light and small materials which shall be wear-resistant, break-resistant and scratch-resistant. And the most obvious advantages of liquid metal lie in high strength, high hardness, high abrasion resistance and being light and thin, which exactly comply with the above core peculiarities. Secondly, 3C product appearance is required to be fashionable and attractive. The shaping modes of molding and pressure casting for liquid metal can satisfy its diversified shaping requirements. Thirdly, technology of liquid metal is close to "net shaping" and it needs less post processing, which can effectively reduce post processing cost. Currently, one liquid metal phone case costs about RMB120 to 150 yuan, cheaper than stainless steel case and integrated aluminum alloy case.
"Actually, liquid metal has been applied in some products in 3C field, and has been successfully applied in smartphones for SIM BisonFone, card slot, rotating shaft and other parts, such as iPhone, Huawei, OPPO, etc.," said Qi Ding.
Besides, it can manufacture hydraulic ram, piston and other wear-resistant spare parts of automobile engine by virtue of characteristics of high hardness and high abrasion performance of liquid metal in automobile industry, which can greatly lengthen its service life; In aerospace field, it can produce main frame, bearing and other structures of aerospace craft by virtue of characteristics of high strength and specific stiffness of liquid metal. Weight reduction in a large scale equals to improve thrust ratio of aerospace engine; In medical equipment field, the corrosion resistance of liquid metal makes it the preferred material for fixed fracture splint plate and nail; In sports equipment field, liquid metal is the best material for horizontal bar, parallel bars and stay bar, which has been successfully applied in the striking surface of golf rod head. "For conservative estimation, liquid metal will create another new material market at billions level," said Li Yangde, Chairman of EONTEC.
Relevant experts believe that liquid metal has a huge potential to overturn traditional light alloy, and that with breakthrough of technical bottlenecks and productivity bottlenecks, it is expected to see an explosive growth.
Industrialization process accelerating
According to experts, liquid metal has high technical barrier, especially that "block shaping" difficulty becomes a bottleneck of limiting its wide application, which is also the reason for the fact that there are more small spare parts among current products. And 3C product case, automobile parts and others all belong to block shaping, which means that it is necessary to master core technology of block shaping to widely promote liquid metal. Secondly, currently, there are very few manufacturers involving in liquid metal, and it is difficult to rapidly expand production capacity, thus leaving worries about wide promotion and application to downstream firms, such as Samsung, Apple and other similar 3C tycoons.
In March this year, actual controller of EONTEC, Li Yangde bought 18 percent stock rights of U.S. Liquidmetal Technologies Company, becoming the largest shareholder, and will continue to increase to about 46 percent in the future. On the one hand, U.S. Liquidmetal Technologies Company possesses core and top liquid metal material formula with the widest coverage range, key processing technologies and other related intellectual properties (128 patents), being the standard setter in global liquid metal industry; On the other hand, EONTEC possesses three core technologies of block shaping technology, material composition and equipment manufacturing, being the only enterprise qualified for block amorphous metal shaping in the whole world. Frame of the first liquid metal mobile phone, Turing phone, is a product of EONTEC. "U.S. Liquidmetal Technologies Company is not quite mature in block shaping documents, equipment and raw material, which makes it unable to produce in a large scale. After EONTEC introducing block shaping technology secret to it, it will fundamentally solve this shortcoming by virtue of low-cost raw material and mold, self-developed shaping equipment and processing technology," said Qi Ding.
CEO of U.S. Liquidmetal Technologies Company, Tom has much confidence in the cooperation with EONTEC. He believes that U.S. Liquidmetal Technologies Company has brand, patents and global sales channels, and EONTEC has complete industrial chain and abundant production experience. The cooperation between the two parties can be called perfect. "Among our archives of the Sales Department, there are many customers from more than 200 different industries and nearly 1000 inquiries to reply. Previously, most of our products are engaged in idle theorizing due to limited productivity, material cost and other reasons." Tom said, "But with industrialization of EONTEC, it is expected to rapidly promote liquid metal products in the whole world, and widely develop technology licensing and result in another billions-leveled market".
"All the conditions have not been met by LQMT for Lugee Li to follow-thru with the second tranches of investment."
Link please.
Condition to be met was approval of shares by investors stated clearly in the announcement.
Please provide a link to the special revelation you have regarding the other conditions that have not been met!
"I believe the Hong Kong governor or Dongguan mayor wasn't in on the original deal and that the Chinese government at some level is not approving the deal. "
Link please! Absolute conjecture!
What is clear is that Lugee invested 64 million dollars of his money in liquidmetal because he sees great potential in the company!
Once we get news that his 55 million has been paid we will see the stock price rise to .30. Then when a contract hits into one dollar!
It's coming soon. By in at .15 now, or at .30 when the news hits!
I am looking, and he has brought a developing company trying to find a market almost in bankruptcy to the front door of commercialization!
This summer Steipp will show the readiness of liquidmetal to the world!
Looking forward to an exciting summer!
I predict that in the next 1-2 months we here news about the $160,000 in pre-production orders turning into full blown production orders. This has the potential of producing 27 million dollars in revenue according to our last cc.
When news hits of contracts that are brining in 1-2 million dollars a piece for multiple years, the world will then know that Liquidmetal is prime for production. Those sitting on the sidelines, will be surprised when they have to buy in at a much much higher price than our current .15 cents.
I don't see this price sitting down here much longer, and look forward to a very exciting summer for our stock!!!
Don't know what in the world you are trying to say?
As I pointed out before, and will do so again for your benefit, doesn't matter who said it in the cc, Tom is in command and has to write off and endorse anything communicated!
Got it!
I got a good chuckle out of that one!
Ok whatever you say pal!
I can understand the frustration from waiting, but our first big contracts which I anticipate before the end of the summer will send this stock into the low dollars! As investors anticipate another 10 contracts that were predicted by liquidmetal, and Apple using liquidmetal we will see an explosion in the stock price to who knows where!
I hope you are not sitting on the sidelines when all this happens this year!!!
Apple has been getting pounded for not being innovative in their technology.
When they use liquidmetal in their products you can be assured they will proclaim it from the mountain tops as the will will want everyone to recognize that they are still cutting edge!
Commercializations is at the front door Zombie!
That's why Apple will use it in their iPhone next year and make liquidmetal millions of dollars!
That's why Steipp said we will see 12-14 orders this year with revenues up yo 27 million dollars!
That's why Lugee Li is investing 63 million dollars of his hard earned cash into liquidmetal this year!
That's why we brought on EONTEC as a partner to do mass manufacturing for us with their network of 20-30 other manufacturers!
That's why Engel is beating the bush giving liquidmetal prime time promotion!
Get it!
Been hearing this for over a month now!
Still waiting for it to drop to that nickel predicted many weeks ago.