It’s that wonderful time of the year.

We collected and delivered presents to the CHILDREN’S HOME OF STOCKTON — a place that restores hope in kids and young adults who are in foster care. The CEO, Joelle Gomez, was giving the tour to some people – we sneaked out discretely, like Santa and his helpers do. #California #Community Engagement #CompanyCulture

Our rule on Sweets & Candies

It’s Friday — let’s disclose VALIMET’s unwritten rule on sweets: those of us who travel bring back regional treats and specialties. Italy and New Zealand, iconic Baratti & Milano and Cookie Time Group — everyone loves you over here in Big Valley, California. We recommend your products as ice breakers for morning meetings and as…

Something serious about Cerium, Episode 6: Blend, Pre-Alloy or MasterAlloy?

Long story short, it’s better to pre-alloy Zirconium and Scandium, or at least, to use an Aluminum-based Master Alloy. The alloy Al-7Ce-10Mg-0.71Zr-0.23Sc has been tested for LPBF by Northwestern University, in collaboration with Eck Industries, Inc. U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. Clement Ekaputra, David Weiss and other co-authors have compared different addition technique for…

Basketball and Encounters

An employee perk at VALIMET, Inc.: Basketball tickets.A group of us enjoyed the Stockton Kings game, the other night.Weird encounters: Santa, the Grinch, our President Chris Adam. We share the pics as a way to process all of that…

One closing thought on Formnext 2025.

The most significant contribution to speeding-up AM parts validations is probably that today Dyndrite can deliver. Salvation comes from a Software Company. On the hardware side, the number of lasers per machine may grow more but the intrinsic properties of lasers show potential for faster printing: see what nLIGHT, Inc. has introduced in the recent…