Which makes more sense, considering the Engel/Lqmt turn key machines, and the capability of 3D machines to make moulds.
1. For Visser to fill a warehouse of machines and go out and get production contracts, along with LQMT and Materion, and then make prototypes at the warehouse, ship them back and forth until
its perfected...then make the contracted items and ship them to the contractor.
OR.
2. Have Engel sell the LQMT/Engel turn key machines all over the world, along with the LQMT METAL, whose basic patent has now expired and anyone can make it..unless there are patents in process for new configurations of the metal. Then ENGEL will have central facilities all over the world to support the machines and the companies that bought them. That way the companies can make many different parts on their own...perhaps making the "MOULDS" with 3D printers.
By this time isn't it logical that ENGEL and LQMT have discussed No.2 and that's the reason for the TURN KEY machine?? So it can be SOLD all over the world??? Also different sizes of the "TURN KEY" machine. Wouldn't by now..ENGEL and LQMT have come to the decision that this is the better way to go??? Why would VISSER have a warehouse of machines, when ENGEL will be selling them directly to the contractors.
This is a new day in Metallurgy. Now these processes no longer have to be done at one HUGE factory..
like a steel mill...each company can be its own metal fabrication center. Its a new day, a new technology...why are we talking about LQMT making parts, when they have already developed a LQMT/ENGEL machine that can be sold to any contractor?? Maybe I'm missing something...but it seems the plan we thought would happen, has changed.
