Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[chipboarder]

I’ve seen some references to 3D printing with amorphous alloys but I haven’t seen anything with scale or at the commercialization level. I think it’s printed and then sintered and that’s when it gets tricky ….you have to heat it enough to fuse the particles but not so much that it melts and you go crystalline upon cooling. There is a lot of process development to be explored. I recall something about spraying a BMG powder through an energy beam (plasma?) to partially melt it but I didn’t see an assessment of % crystallinity of the final product.

I would shoot for smaller intricate parts with lots of CNC machining where we can offer a significant labor savings and reduced total cost.