Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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The profit potential in automotive is Huge, lots of different expensive parts in cars and bikes that can each be in hundreds or thousands of dollars, compared to nickel and dime BMG components inside Consumer Electronics.

I like this part of the article, shows how important Li is, he is literally mobilising China’s industries to fast track BMG supply, equipment and adoption. A good move by Steipp to put him in charge of lqmt’s future. A new manufacturing technology does need China’s industrial power to make it a success.

The technical barrier of liquid metal (amorphous alloy)is very high, especially the problem of mature equipment becomes the bottleneck of restricting its application.

Inside and outside the decorative parts, more than 400 grams of auto parts and so on are part of the bulk forming, which means that in order to promote a large area of liquid metal, must master the core technology of bulk molding. Secondly, the production of bulk amorphous alloys are still in development or improvement in equipment, a few years ago, although there are a few domestic enterprises began to develop the production of bulk amorphous equipment, but did not form a large-scale market, estimated to be improved and still continued to improve. Fortunately, the eastern region of China, an important equipment companies began to organize the relevant units of collaborative research and development of liquid metal forming equipment, the first half of this year is expected to face global supply. From the analysis of the trial production, both the design of the components, the forming of the products, the yield and the consistency of the products meet the design requirements, and have their own intellectual property rights.