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K-V Creditors Rejects Plan; Won't Delay Confirmation, K-V Says
Aug 22, 2013 13:36:03 (ET)
Stephanie Gleason
A class of K-V Pharmaceutical Co. (KVPBQ, KVPHQ) creditors has voted against the company's proposed bankruptcy-exit plan, complicating its attempt to implement this plan.
According to documents filed Wednesday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, two holders of unsecured claims, owed $4.12 million, or 69%, of the debt in the class, voted to reject the plan.
In order for the court to confirm a bankruptcy-exit plan, the Bankruptcy Code requires at least half by number and two-thirds by amount of claimants in a particular class--in this case, unsecured creditors of K-V Pharmaceutical Co.--vote to accept it.
However, K-V attorney Robin Spigel of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP said that the company doesn't believe the rejection is an impediment to confirmation of the plan.
"The overwhelming majority of creditors in the rejecting class accepted the plan," she said by email Wednesday. According to court documents, 95% by number voted to accept in that class--the two that voted against just happen to hold very large claims by amount.
Additionally, the company disputes the claim, she said, which is held by a creditor involved in litigation with K-V.
"The plan enjoys broad support by and among the Debtors' key constituencies and this will in no way slow down confirmation," she said.
Under the Bankruptcy Code, if the claim was deemed valid, K-V could still move forward with the plan if it paid creditors in that class in full.
The bankruptcy-exit plan is set to go before Judge Allan Gropper on Wednesday.
Prior to that hearing, Judge Gropper will rule on the still-pending issue of whether a group of senior bondholders is entitled to the interest that's accrued since K-V filed for bankruptcy last August on its debt, worth $235.8 million.
A trial on the matter took place Thursday, with both sides--the senior bondholders who want the interest and junior bondholders slated to become K-V's new owners--pulling apart the language of the agreement trying to prove the intended meaning of words like "including" and "replace."
K-V's bankruptcy-exit plan is sponsored by a group of junior bondholders--Greywolf Capital, Susquehanna International Group, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Kingdon Associates--that invested $275 million in the company in exchange for equity in the restructured K-V.
It pays senior bondholders led by Silver Point Capital in full but leaves the question of so-called post-petition interest up to Judge Gropper to decide. Unsecured creditors are sharing $10.25 million in cash.
K-V filed for Chapter 11 protection while embroiled in controversy over its preterm labor drug, Makena. The only drug with Food and Drug Administration approval to prevent preterm labor, Makena was expected to rake in profits for the company.
However, when K-V rolled out its pricing structure--$1,500 per injection--the medical community pushed back and didn't prescribe it, instead continuing to give patients a compounded version that costs far less.
The FDA declined to act to stop the cheaper versions from being produced by compounding pharmacies, and sales of Makena stayed low. Since then, sales of the drug have increased as compounding practices have come under scrutiny.
(Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review covers news about distressed companies and those under bankruptcy protection. Go to http://dbr.dowjones.com)
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 22, 2013 13:36 ET (17:36 GMT)
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Tons of loading going on. Hell of a long time. Soon enough this will put smiles on our faces. BSGC
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Apple Liquidmetal patent points to devices of the future?
July 17, 2013 Stephen Warwick Leave a comment
A patent granted to Apple’s licensing tie-up with Liquidmetal Technologies, Crucible Intellectual Property, has pointed to distinct progress in using Liquidmetal for mobile devices of the future.
Currently, Liquidmetal can only be applied to tiny implements, such as Apple’s SIM ejector tool. Creating larger objects involves manufacturing large sheets of controllable thickness, and all of the current techniques mean that the stuff just breaks.
The patent granted to the two companies today involves several factory methods which allows the creating of metallic glass of controllable thickness, between 0.1 and 25 mm, at a width of up to 3 meters.
The possibility of Liquidmetal manufacturing would allow Apple to totally revolutionize its manufacturing methods, and would pave the way for all sorts of device implementations and possibilities. Whilst we have no specific details of this rather ambiguous patent, its clear that this development means a big jump for Liquidmetal manufacturing that we will most likely see in our iDevices one day!
OMEGA AND WORLD-PREMIERE LIQUIDMETAL® TECHNOLOGY
When OMEGA launched its Seamaster Planet Ocean Liquidmetal® Limited Edition, the world was introduced to the very first watch to bond ceramics and Liquidmetal®, a zirconium-based alloy.
Swatch Group researchers collaborating with OMEGA’s product development team created a striking ceramic bezel whose numbers and scaling, made of the Liquidmetal® alloy, appear in stunning silvery contrast to the black ceramic background. The colour of the ceramic dial perfectly matches that of the bezel. The result is an aesthetic wonder only made possible by several new and innovative processes.
Liquidmetal®: seamless bonding, remarkable hardness
The Liquidmetal® alloy is an amorphous metal – a metallic material with a disordered, non-crystalline atomic structure. Its fusion temperature is half that of conventional titanium alloys but when it is cooled, its hardness is three times as great as that of stainless steel. Its amorphous structure allows it to bond seamlessly with the ceramic bezel.
A bulk metallic glass like Liquidmetal® can, by virtue of its low critical cooling rate, be formed into a structure with a thickness of more than a tenth of a millimetre. Zirconium is an important constituent part both of the Liquidmetal® alloy and of the ceramic material which is made of zirconium dioxide (Zr02).
The final, perfectly smooth bezel is particularly resistant to scratching and corrosion because of the hardness of the two components.
Redefining longevity in the watch industry
The OMEGA Seamaster Planet Ocean Liquidmetal® Limited Edition, which has a stainless steel case and bracelet, is driven by OMEGA’s revolutionary Co-Axial calibre 2500. These movements, which have been heralded for their long-term chronometric performance, are perfectly complemented by the robust, corrosion-resistant ceramic and Liquidmetal® alloy components. The result is pure OMEGA: a design premiere which will retain its appearance indefinitely, blended with innovative Co-Axial technology
Liquidmetal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Liquidmetal and Vitreloy are commercial names of a series of amorphous metal alloys developed by a California Institute of Technology (Caltech) research team and marketed by Liquidmetal Technologies. Liquidmetal alloys combine a number of desirable material features, including high tensile strength, excellent corrosion resistance, very high coefficient of restitution and excellent anti-wearing characteristics, while also being able to be heat-formed in processes similar to thermoplastics. Despite the name, they are not liquid at room temperature.[1]
Liquidmetal was introduced for commercial applications in 2003.[citation needed] It is used for, among other things, golf clubs, watches and covers of cell phones.
The alloy was the end result of a research program into amorphous metals carried out at Caltech. It was the first of a series of experimental alloys that could achieve an amorphous structure at relatively slow cooling rates.[citation needed] Amorphous metals had been made before, but only in small batches because cooling rates needed to be in the millions of degrees per second. For example, amorphous wires could be fabricated by splat cooling a stream of molten metal on a spinning disk. Because Vitreloy allowed such slow cooling rates, production of larger batch sizes was possible. More recently, a number of additional alloys have been added to the Liquidmetal portfolio. These alloys also retain their amorphous structure after repeated re-heating, allowing them to be used in a wide variety of traditional machining processes.
Contents [hide]
1 Characteristics
2 Uses
3 Commercial alloys
4 Licensed uses
5 References
6 External links
Characteristics[edit]
Liquidmetal alloys contain atoms of significantly different sizes. They form a dense mix with low free volume. Unlike crystalline metals, there is no obvious melting point at which viscosity drops suddenly. Vitreloy behaves more like other glasses, in that its viscosity drops gradually with increased temperature. At high temperature, it behaves in a plastic manner, allowing the mechanical properties to be controlled relatively easily during casting. The viscosity prevents the atoms moving enough to form an ordered lattice, so the material retains its amorphous properties even after being heat-formed.
The alloys have relatively low softening temperatures, allowing casting of complicated shapes without need of finishing. The material properties immediately after casting are much better than that of conventional metals; usually, cast metals have worse properties than forged or wrought ones. The alloys are also malleable at low temperatures (400 °C or 752 °F for the earliest formulation), and can be molded. The low free volume also results in low shrinkage during cooling. For all of these reasons, Liquidmetal can be formed into complex shapes using processes similar to thermoplastics,[2] which makes Liquidmetal a potential replacement for many applications where plastics would normally be used.
Due to their non-crystalline (amorphous) structures, Liquidmetals are harder than alloys of titanium or aluminum of similar composition. The zirconium and titanium based Liquidmetal alloys achieved yield strength of over 1723 MPa, nearly twice the strength of conventional crystalline titanium alloys (Ti6Al4V is ~830 MPa), and about the strength of high-strength steels and some highly engineered bulk composite materials (see tensile strength for a list of common materials). However, the early casting methods introduced microscopic flaws that were excellent sites for crack propagation, and led to Vitreloy being fragile, like glass. Although strong, these early batches could easily be shattered if struck. Newer casting methods, adjustment to the alloy mixtures and other changes have improved this.
The lack of grain boundaries may contribute to the high coefficient of restitution (close to 1) these alloys exhibit. In a demonstration, ball bearings dropped on plates of metal will bounce three times as long on Liquidmetal.[3]
The lack of grain boundaries in a metallic glass eliminates grain-boundary corrosion — a common problem in high-strength alloys produced by precipitation hardening and sensitized stainless steels. Liquidmetal alloys are therefore generally more corrosion resistant, both due to the mechanical structure as well as the elements used in its alloy. The combination of mechanical hardness, high elasticity and corrosion resistance makes Liquidmetal wear resistant.
Although at high temperatures, plastic deformation occurs easily, almost none occurs at room temperature before the onset of catastrophic failure. This limits the material's applicability in reliability-critical applications, as the impending failure is not evident. The material is also susceptible to metal fatigue with crack growth; a two-phase composite structure with amorphous matrix and a ductile dendritic crystalline-phase reinforcement, or a metal matrix composite reinforced with fibers of other material can reduce or eliminate this disadvantage.[4]
Uses[edit]
Liquidmetal combines a number of features that are normally not found in any one material. This makes them useful in a wide variety of applications.
One of the first commercial uses of Liquidmetal was in golf clubs made by the company, where the highly elastic metal was used in portions of the face of the club.[5] These were highly rated by users, but the product was later dropped, in part because the prototypes shattered after fewer than 40 hits.[6] Since then, Liquidmetal has appeared in other sports equipment, including the cores of golf balls, skis, baseball and softball bats, and tennis racquets.[7]
The ability to be cast and molded, combined with high wear resistance, has also led to Liquidmetal being used as a replacement for plastics in some applications.[citation needed] It has been used on the casing of late-model SanDisk "Cruzer Titanium" USB flash drives as well as their Sansa line of flash-based MP3 player, and casings of some mobile phones, like the luxury Vertu products, and other toughened consumer electronics.[citation needed] Liquidmetal has also notably been used for making the SIM ejector tool of some iPhone 3Gs made by Apple Inc., shipped in the US. This was done by Apple as an exercise to test the viability of usage of the metal.[8] They retain a scratch-free surface longer than competing materials, while still being made in complex shapes. The same qualities lend it to be used as protective coatings for industrial machinery, including petroleum drill pipes and power plant boiler tubes.[citation needed]
It is also considered as a replacement of titanium in applications ranging from medical instruments and cars to military and aerospace industry. In military applications, rods of amorphous metals are considered as a replacement of depleted uranium in kinetic energy penetrators.[9] Plates of Liquidmetal were used in the solar wind ion collector array in the Genesis space probe.[citation needed]
Although Liquidmetal has very high strength and an excellent strength to weight ratio, its commercial success as a structural material may be limited.[citation needed] Work continues on amorphous iron-based alloys that would combine at least some of the advantages of Liquidmetal with even greater strength, estimated to be two to three times the strength of the best steels made today. This would give such an alloy a strength to weight ratio that would easily beat the best lightweight materials such as aluminium or titanium, and be much less expensive than composite materials.[citation needed]
Commercial alloys[edit]
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A range of zirconium-based alloys have been marketed under this trade name. Some example compositions are listed below, in molar percent:
An early alloy, Vitreloy 1:[10]
Zr: 41.2 Be: 22.5 Ti: 13.8 Cu: 12.5 Ni: 10
A variant, Vitreloy 4 (Vit4):
Zr: 46.75 Be: 27.5 Ti: 8.25 Cu: 7.5 Ni: 10
Vitreloy 105 (Vit105):[11]
Zr: 52.5 Ti: 5 Cu: 17.9 Ni: 14.6 Al:10
A more recent development (Vitreloy 106a), which forms glass under less rapid cooling:
Zr: 58.5 Cu: 15.6 Ni: 12.8 Al: 10.3 Nb: 2.8
Licensed uses[edit]
Apple Inc., acquired a perpetual, exclusive license to use its technology in consumer electronics.[12][13]
The Swatch Group, was granted an exclusive license to utilize Liquidmetal in its timepieces."[14]
Liquidmetal: Redefining Metals for the 21st Century10.26.05
A revolution in metals has arrived. NASA, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the U.S. Department of Energy united to help develop a new building material. "Liquidmetal" is a type of alloy, a mix of three or more metals, with characteristics similar to plastic that cools quickly and has more than twice the strength of titanium.
Image to right: SanDisk Corporation, the world’s largest supplier of flash storage card products, has introduced their latest SanDisk Cruzer® Titanium flash drives featuring the Liquidmetal alloy for its case. With more than twice the strength of titanium and the ability to precision net shape cast the high tolerance part, the Liquidmetal® Alloy provides the flash memory drive with the strongest case that withstands scratching, and wear and corrosion. Credit: Liquidmetal Technologies
It has long been thought that plastic and steel were the best materials to use in building large products that might be used for aerospace and space exploration applications. These new "shapeless alloys" combine the strength of steel with the molding capability of plastic.
Dr. Bill Johnson of Caltech, Pasadena, Calif., has studied metals with liquid atomic structures for over 30 years. He eventually teamed up with Dr. Atakan Peker of Liquidmetal Technologies, Lake Forest, Calif. Peker further helped Johnson develop the idea of creating thick liquid metals that form glass without the need for rapid cooling.
Johnson began working in the field in the early 1980s with colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA and Liquidmetal Technologies cooperated on research using the microgravity conditions available flying on the space shuttle. Extensive experiments on liquid metals were conducted onboard the International Microgravity Laboratory flight in 1994 and again in 1997 on the Microgravity Science Laboratory mission. The work was sponsored by NASA, CalTech and the U.S. Department of Energy to create new materials for aerospace.
Image to left: The leading manufacturer of baseball sports equipment, Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc, an Official Supplier to Major League Baseball for over 30 years, has teamed with Liquidmetal® Technologies to introduce a new standard in high-performance materials to the world of baseball products. Liquidmetal engineers and Rawlings designers developed a baseball bat that offers superior durability while dramatically reducing the energy loss experienced with other materials upon impact with the ball. Liquidmetal technology is currently exclusive to Rawlings for baseball and softball bats. Credit: Liquidmetal Technologies
Johnson has continued this research on the ground using electrostatic levitation and laser heating. In this process small spheres are held up in a vacuum and melted by a laser beam. NASA sponsors two high-vacuum electrostatic levitator facilities for this research at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., and at Caltech.
Johnson and Peker were able to create a new form of mixed metals that went from a liquid to a solid at room temperature. The liquid included a mix of elements: zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper, beryllium.
Instead of having to quickly cool a liquid metal to become solid, it cooled and hardened itself at room temperature to avoid crystallization and become a glass. They named this liquid metal "Vitreloy." This metal showed massive strength: a one inch wide bar could lift 300,000 pounds, compared to a titanium bar of the same size that could only lift 175,000 pounds. Although this material had super strength, it lacked the attributes that make metals tough. Vitreloy, was more robust than window pane glass, but still cracked.
Image to right: Liquidmetal is the only material that can fully exploit the energy that is released during a turn-without any losses whatsoever. At the same time, the special molecular structure guarantees fastest response and markedly improved ski rebound for optimum turn initiation. Skis made of materials with conventional molecular structure lose too much power during turns as a result of heat and strong ski deformation. Credit: Liquidmetal Technologies
The successful method used to toughen Vitreloy and create Liquidmetal is the same method used to process plastics. In 2000, Johnson and graduate student Paul Kim improved Vitreloy's toughness while giving it the flexibility to allow it to be made into many different shapes. Now, the new line of Liquidmetal alloys is on the rise.
It has been proven that Liquidmetal can handle lots of stress without losing its shape and is three times more elastic than other alloys. To test these characteristics, an experiment was set up. In the experiment, three marble-sized balls made of steel were dropped from the same height into their own glass tubes. Each tube had a different type of metal plate at the bottom: steel, titanium, Liquidmetal. Once each ball was dropped they were left to bounce. The balls hitting the steel and titanium plates bounced for 20 to 25 seconds. The ball hitting the Liquidmetal plate bounced for 1 minute and 21 seconds. During the experiment, this was the only ball that bounced outside its tube.
Liquidmetal Technologies Inc. has an exclusive license for this product and is finding more uses for it. Plates for golf equipment were one of the early products in 1996. Now it is being considered by the U.S. Department of Defense as an armor and anti-armor material.
HEAD Racquet Sports showed its interest in the material in 2003 and used it for a new tennis racquet line that ultimately became the world’s top-selling new technology racquet that same year. Now the Liquidmetal alloy is finding its way into any number of consumer goods, including, cell phone cases and parts, a Rawlings baseball bat, HEAD skis and more. The technology is also being considered for several upcoming aerospace applications.
AMORPHOUS ALLOY SURPASSES STEEL AND TITANIUM
CONSUMER/HOME/RECREATION
ORIGINATING TECHNOLOGY/ NASA CONTRIBUTION
In the same way that the inventions of steel in the 1800s and plastic in the 1900s sparked revolutions for industry, a new class of amorphous alloys is poised to redefine materials science as we know it in the 21st century.
Welcome to the 3rd Revolution, otherwise known as the era of Liquidmetal® alloys, where metals behave similar to plastics but possess more than twice the strength of high-performance titanium. Liquidmetal alloys were conceived in 1992, as a result of a project funded by the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), NASA, and the U.S. Department of Energy, to study the fundamentals of metallic alloys in an undercooled liquid state, for the development of new aerospace materials. Furthermore, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center contributed to the development of the alloys by subjecting the materials to testing in its Electrostatic Levitator , a special instrument that is capable of suspending an object in midair so that researchers can heat and cool it in a containerless environment free from contaminants that could otherwise spoil the experiment.
PARTNERSHIP
With an amorphous atomic structure that is unprecedented for structural metals, the Liquidmetal® alloy possesses superior elasticity and a high yield strength more than twice that of high-performance titanium alloys.
Prior to the discovery of the material that would eventually come to be known as Liquidmetal, Dr. Bill Johnson of CalTech had spent over 20 years studying the feasibility of creating new types of metals with liquid atomic structures. As a professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Johnson’s motivation to study liquid-like metals was the work of a former CalTech materials scientist named Pol Duwez. In 1959, Duwez employed a rapid cooling process to successfully create a thin, gold-silicon alloy that remained amorphous at room temperature. This ribbon-like form of amorphous metal caught on, and is still being used today in transformer cores on power poles to reduce transmission losses.
As Johnson’s studies continued over the years, he envisioned amorphous metals in thick, structural hunks that did not require rapid cooling for formation. In 1992, he and Dr. Atakan Peker—a graduate student at the time—patiently spent 10 months bringing this concept to fruition as part of their task for CalTech, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Using a complicated blend of elements (zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper, and beryllium) possessing varying chemical characteristics, Johnson and Peker were able to create a newly structured alloy that turned from a liquid structure or non-crystalline to a solid at room temperature, without having to subject the material to rapid cooling.
Over the next 6 months, the two-man team experimented with varying amounts of the chemical elements and several hundred resulting glassy alloys. They ultimately concocted a promising recipe they termed as “Vitreloy.” There were no doubts cast over the amazing strength of Vitreloy. A 1-inch-diameter bar of the new material was capable of lifting 300,000 pounds, while a titanium bar of the same size supported 175,000 pounds. Despite this superb achievement, Vitreloy was quite delicate, having the propensity to shatter like glass. Johnson explained that this shear failure would occur because Vitreloy lacked the crystals normally found in conventional metals that gather together to protect a surface area from imperfections and damaging forces. On the other hand, by not possessing crystals, amorphous metals are elastic, strong, and corrosion-proof.
HEAD Racquet Sports has incorporated Liquidmetal® into a new tennis racquet line.
Using methods resembling those employed to process plastics, Johnson and Peker in 2000 improved upon Vitreloy to create an extended family of Liquidmetal alloys with improved strength properties that do not inhibit the metal’s flexibility to be shaped and processed into many different forms.
PRODUCT OUTCOME
Arguably the first major breakthrough in materials technology since the development of thermoplastics, Liquidmetal alloys offer superior mechanical properties compared to other highly engineered materials. Compared to crystalline metallic alloys, Liquidmetal is much more resistant to permanent deformation from impact, and 3 times more elastic or resilient. To demonstrate the elasticity phenomenon, three identical, polished, marble-sized balls made of stainless steel were each dropped into their own glass tubes from the same height and left to bounce. Each tube contained a different type of metal plate at the bottom: the first tube possessed a steel plate, the second tube a titanium plate, and the third tube a Liquidmetal plate. The ball in the steel-plated tube and the ball in the titanium-plated tube ceased bouncing between 20 and 25 seconds, while the ball in the Liquidmetal-plated tube continued to bounce for 1 minute and 21 seconds. Also, the plate made from Liquidmetal was the only plate containing enough elasticity to allow the ball to bounce completely out of the glass tube several times after the initial drop.
Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. , of Lake Forest, California, is the owner of the intellectual property rights for Liquidmetal, holding more than 40 worldwide patents and trademarks on the composition, manufacturing process, and usage of the technology. The company began manufacturing plates for golf equipment in 1996, and has since catapulted its business to a new level with many other applications built from Liquidmetal technology.
The Liquidmetal® properties translate into a watchcase that is scratch-, dent-, and corrosion-resistant, and at the same time provides a high gloss that can be polished to a luxurious jeweler’s finish. Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer is featuring Liquidmetal® as the casing of a new, special edition timepiece.
Scientists at Liquidmetal Technologies discovered that the inclusion of Liquidmetal alloys into a wide range of military products could significantly enhance the performance and safety levels of these items. The initial military product identified was the Kinetic Energy Penetrator (KEP), the most effective armor-piercing ammunition used by the military. The KEP currently utilizes depleted uranium alloy rods, however, so the U.S. Department of Defense is searching for a new, environmentally safe KEP material that performs as well as this heavy metal, but without the potential hazards (depleted uranium is slightly radioactive and has chemical toxicity properties that, in high doses, can cause adverse health effects). Based on an initial testing occurring recently, the U.S. Army found the Liquidmetal refractory-based alloy composite to have unique characteristics that make it an improved material for use as KEP rods in advanced armor-piercing ammunition. As a result, the Department of Defense is working closely with Liquidmetal Technologies to develop a range of KEP rods that are suitable to replace the depleted uranium rods.
In 2003, HEAD Racquet Sports, a division of HEAD NV, incorporated the revolutionary metal alloy into a new tennis racquet line. HEAD has maximized the benefits of the alloy by applying it to four strategic areas of the Liquidmetal racquet’s head. This allows all of the energy from ball impact to be used for a powerful return, so what a player puts into his or her swing is exactly what they get out. No energy is lost on ball impact due to the racquet’s liquid atomic structure.
The HEAD Liquidmetal Radical, one of several HEAD racquet models featuring the alloy, was named one of BusinessWeek’s and FORTUNE’s 25 best products for 2003. This model is also considered the “weapon of choice” for tennis star Andre Agassi. “The power and maneuverability of the Liquidmetal technology is unparalleled,” states Agassi, who ranked number one in the world in August 2003.
More recently, Russian tennis pro Marat Safin reached the finals at the 2004 Australian Open with his HEAD Liquidmetal Prestige racquet. On the women’s side, Anastasia Myskina—also of Russia—was a quarter- finalist with her HEAD Liquidmetal Instinct racquet and Patty Schnyder of Switzerland was a semi-finalist with her HEAD Liquidmetal Prestige racquet.
Also in sports, Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., the leading manufacturer of baseball sports equipment and official supplier to Major League Baseball, is following up on the success of its inaugural line of Liquidmetal baseball and softball bats by signing an exclusive, multi-year agreement with Liquidmetal Technologies to develop the “next standard” in high-performance baseball equipment. The current Rawlings® Liquidmetal product group features a full range of metal performance bats in four categories: youth baseball, high school/collegiate baseball, senior league baseball, and fast pitch softball.
Liquidmetal is proving to be an attractive and effective casing for wristwatches and jewelry. Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer is featuring the high-performance alloy as the casing of a new, special edition, state-of-the-art chronograph timepiece. The digital movement timepiece was unveiled at the BASEL 2003 World Watch & Jewelry Show as the Microtimer Concept Watch. Built upon TAG Heuer’s international reputation for precision, endurance, and technological innovation, it is fitted with the first Swiss electronic movement accurate to 1/1000 of a second.
Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., and Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc., teamed up to develop the “next standard” in high-performance baseball equipment.
The Liquidmetal properties translate into a watchcase that is scratch-, dent-, and corrosion-resistant, and at the same time provides a high gloss that can be polished to a luxurious jeweler’s finish. Furthermore, the ability of Liquidmetal alloys to be cast into precision net-shape parts offers additional opportunities and advantages for their application in unique and sophisticated jewelry designs. TAG Heuer, together with its parent company Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, have agreed to broaden their product portfolios utilizing Liquidmetal technology.
In telecommunications and electronics, Liquidmetal Technologies has created markets for scratch-resistant and slim-but-strong cellular phone casings. Vertu Limited, a luxury personal communication company, features the alloy in the bezel and battery cover of its new Vertu® Ascent Collection, available in fine jewelry and department stores worldwide. In an effort to answer consumer demands for smaller, thinner, and more aesthetically pleasing cellular phone designs, Samsung Electronics Company produced a Liquidmetal super-thin liquid crystal display screen frame component for its SCH-X199 mobile phone model. More recently, Samsung has focused on developing small, net-shaped parts such as hinge assemblies, and is incorporating these parts into cellular phones and other devices. The small, functional parts exploit the high strength and elasticity of Liquidmetal while using the alloy’s ability to be “plastically processed” to obtain precision hardware at cost structures competitive with plastic parts.
The new Vertu® Ascent Collection, featuring Liquidmetal® in its bezel and battery cover.
In medicine, Liquidmetal Technologies is working with DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson & Johnson, to develop orthopedic implant products such as hip and knee replacement devices, as well as scalpel blades that are stronger and sharper than steel, less expensive than diamond, and longer lasting than modern blades.
For industry, Liquidmetal Technologies offers a complete line of alloy coatings and powders for equipment and machinery that provides the exceptional benefits of an amorphous surface in tough environments of high wear, temperature, and corrosion. These products possess the right properties to significantly extend part life, including low coefficient of friction, low shrinkage, wear resistance, and high-temperature performance. With established applications in oil drilling thousands of feet beneath the sea floor, refining, pulp and paper, food processing, and agriculture, the coatings are a dependable solution to everyday wear and tear.
Spinning back to the Space Program, NASA and Liquidmetal Technologies worked together on four Space Shuttle missions, enabling NASA scientists to study the alloy firsthand in the microgravity conditions of space. The technology is also being considered for several upcoming aerospace applications, possibly helping to get the 3rd Revolution even further off of the ground.
Liquidmetal® is a registered trademark of Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc.
Rawlings® is a registered trademark of Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc.
Vertu® is a registered trademark of Vertu Limited.
Promo coming
Reality here is, the swing traders took their profits. Down .99% from yesterday and some people are thinking "dump". XUII got dumped, not LQMT. Being on the sidelines paid off. LQMT will come back. LQMT has the exposure it needs, period!
Were u following
Come and join the party at $ S E E K
Looks like the pr aint helping. Im still waiting for an entry. Gettimg close imo
Well no ship sail. Still on the pier. Setting up at pre pump the way things are looking. Maybe news coming. Ill try to contact the management.
L2 looking better. I might pick up today.
Needs some slapping lol. Come on PWEB, intrigue me. Stop playing weak haha
Google lawsuit against them was dropped. Insider buying. Book value is at .12c. They have cash and revenue. 1.7mil dollar company.
Needs volume to catch my full attention. For now, its simply waiting for that moment.
Nice chart here. Bounce potential.
Not nice enough
Looks nice right now. Hmmm
Interesting chart. Getting anxious. Getting "this" close to hit it.
made bank here. still have a handful ready for the .02
Volume sucked. Wanted some shares but not today. If tomorrow happens the same way, forget bout it.
Make or break tomorrow. Could go either way.
I agree with you on cheapies, but will it happen tomorrow or will it happen after the promo. Sure is a big risk/reward here thats for sure.
I wonder if Monday will be good. This has promo everywhere.
Always down for that ;)
Did not pick up any yet. Will watch tomorrow morning. imo, this could be a cpl days play