Arcam AB fka AMAVF

[Tom Joad]

The Japanese have a long history of being especially particular about their steel so I hope a company from the land of the rising sun enter the fray. In metallurgy, an especially useful result was recently obtained by Hitachi.

First demonstration of promising selective electron beam melting method for utilizing high-entropy alloys as engineering materials

I suspect that part of the reason that the Arcam board is comfortable with the offer is corporate culture, they've been working with GE for some time.