Replies to post #53427 on Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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"rechnerhand" this article's advertising for MIM mfg. contractors if you ask me. LiquidMetal and Paul Hauck are basically soliciting for MIM contractors to negotiate now VPC has lost their monopoly.

"The Molding Blog" ?

I "bet" a dollar that Paul placed this article.

Competition is a good thing. In a free market, that generally brings costs down.

If I'm in the shoes of say Paul's old company "Kinetics" I might be ready to align my company with a patent and Intellectual Property rich company like LQMT.

http://kinetics.com/

Much to learn from APPLE / Crucible.

Good find, my man.

"In another development, LMT is now free to find multiple manufacturers for its process, a critical issue for many large companies such as Apple that have been burned by single-source suppliers in the past."

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"rechnerhand" One more tidbit from the Blog - this could very well be good news for LQMT's partner ENGEL.

Molding Machinery Rises While US Economy Dips

"Shipments of injection molding machinery in the United States rose 9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the year-earlier quarter.

“The trend in total investment in industrial machinery in the U.S.–the category that includes plastics machinery–has risen sharply in recent quarters. We are entering the sweet spot of the capital expenditure cycle.”