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 5: 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…

Day 3 at Formnext. Sometimes there is a man.

Sometimes there is a man. (And his name is Jonathan Meyer) You may have read the news. Our friend Jon Meyer is passing the baton to the successor he prepared in these past few years, Sebastian Lepa. Jon was there when Fank Palm was conducting researches on the benefits of Scandium additions to Aluminum Alloys,…

VALIMET taking part to the GO-Biz initiative in Poland and Ukraine

Original post by the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) : GO-Biz recently completed a productive joint trade mission with the State of Washington to Poland and Ukraine, focused on strengthening commercial ties, advancing reconstruction partnerships, and reaffirming California’s long-standing support for Ukraine. Thank you to the California companies who joined the…