Student Makerplace Inauguration at University of the Pacific, Stockton CA. A truly pleasant get together of University Management, Staff and Donors.The VALIMET Conference Room is now officially open to the students. It was visited by our President Chris Adam, VP of Operations Michael Royer and VP of Sales and Marketing Luigi Alzati (someone had to take good picture). Prototyping area, laser…
https://valimet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Feb-22.mp4 (Credit to J.W. Thompson & Grillo B., 1986) #wellbeingatwork #gardening #companyculture #employeeperks #aluminum #additivemanufacturing
Radiant Energy loss and its implication for the characterization of metal powders combustion in Solid Propellants. The topic is hot. A new paper summarizes the efforts of two research centers, Texas Tech University and NSWC WD China Lake CA. Together with other partners, they produced a series of publications (see the Energetic Materials Technology section…
Something good for the Additive Manufacturing industry just happened. Congrats to the ELEMENTUM 3D team, RPM Innovations, Inc. and Paul Gradl‘s team at NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We’re glad that a lightweight Aluminum Alloy is the selected material. This project paves the way for more AM nozzle applications, bringing up a key…
We invite our Additive Manufacturing network to read the article Whisper Aero’s Mark Moore wrote for Aviation Week Network. A lot happened in the eVTOLs arena – you may want a shortcut provided by an expert. First of all, congratulations to Joby Aviation and Archer for their success in the Moore Ranking. Secondly, a call to action to AM parts manufacturers: eVTOLs are a…
4 key topics from a great Additive Manufacturing Strategies Summit in NYC. 1. AM as a Stage-2 Industry. Allow me rewording what I heard from James Hockey (Incodema3D, LLC), Arno Held (AM Ventures), Danny Piper (NewCap Partners), Yoav Zeif (CEO at Stratasys).Calls to action pointing in the same direction: take 2024 as a make-or-break year (Arno Held) and focus on Applications – a.k.a. closing deals.My fellow…
Our VP of Sales and Marketing, Luigi Alzati, brought a generous sample of wonders from our Citrus Garden. The receivers were James Adams, CEO at Metal Powder Industries Federation and his team.“A Californian present to our sun-deprived, warm weather-starved, thick clothes-wearing friends on the East Coast. As Bill Evans would say, ‘You must believe in Spring’”. A kumquat…
Did you know?On our Literature web pages we have more than 80 listed Publications that studied VALIMET Atomized Aluminum Alloys. Today, we’d like to highlight a work by Texas Tech University, NSWC China Lake CA and MATSYS Inc. It’s dated March 2023 and just made our list. Check it out here.It is known that propellants manufacturing and optimization rely…
Something about the Cold Spray Action Team:we’d like to invite all Cold Spray professionals in our network to look into CSAT’s activities. They try to push this technology’s limits and welcome contributes to do that. CSAT runs an open source blog where they just published a post from VALIMET, Inc.. On our website’s Literature page we have…
Safety First, together. VALIMET, Inc. celebrates 1000 Days Accident Free! Discussing this milestone, we converge on the importance of fighting complacency and helping each other in doing so. #safety #safetyfirst #operations #aluminum #complacency