As indicated in my previous post, NP Aerospace was divested from Morgan Ceramics in Nov 2018. Sintx officially enters the armor market July 2021 with the purchase of assets from B4C, LLC and license from Precision Ceramics. However Donald Bray was already hard at work beginning in April 2019 in getting Sintx setup to supply aerospace and defense components.
Incidentally NP Aerospace utilizes these exact materials for use in vehicle armor applications. Here is a quote from one of their patents listed materials used.
NP Aerospace has manufacturing facilities in the UK & Canada but does not have manufacturing facilities in the US according to its website. It does have an office in Florida for US sales however.
I do not know if the partnership is in reference to Sintx or not as NP Aerospace has multiple partner facilities it can tap to aid it handling influxes of manufacturing needed for larger orders. As Donald Bray is connected to NP Aerospace and came to Sintx to help setup this facility, it would not surprise me if Sintx was the partner being referenced here. I believe NP Aerospace wants to setup manufacturing facilities in the US so i could see it acquiring Sintx Armor subsidiary. Other scenarios ive mentioned is NP acquiring Sintx or using Sintx to help it go public via a reverse merger.
The reason i say NP acquiring Sintx or a reverse merger is a possibility is the fact that NP has an OEM medical division supplying components for medical beds as well as it supplies components for energy and transportation. These simple synergies could be the grounds for some sort of merger between the companies.
If M&A is to happen between these two companies i expect after the M&A event is finalized that Zimmer Biomets involvement with Sintx becomes more official and less behind the scenes as it is now