Processes and Applications We Serve
VALIMET specializes in tailoring spherical metal powders to meet Customers’ specific requirements.
Processes
Additive Manufacturing
- Powder Bed Fusion
- Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS)
- Selective Heat Sintering (SHS)
- Selective Laser Melting (SLM)
- Electron Beam Melting
- Binder Jetting
- Sheet Lamination
- Directed Energy Deposition (DED)
- Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM or Cold Spray 3d Printing)
- Metal Lithography (LMM)
- Liquid Metal Printing
- Plasma Arc Energy Deposition
- Resistance Welding
- Wire Feed Laser/Electron Beam Energy Deposition
Cold and Thermal Spray
- HVOF (High Velocity Osy-Fuel Spraying)
- Combustion Flame Spraying
- Plasma Spraying
- Vacuum Plasma Spraying
- Two-Wire Electric Arc Spraying
Dispersions (for Pigments, Conductive Pastes, Conductive Inks, Conductive Coatings)
Brazing and Welding
Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites
Polymers compounding
Applications
See below the main applications and the key properties of Aluminum Alloy powders they rely on.
Reactivity
- Solid Rocket Propellants
- Decoy Flares
- Explosives/Pyrotechnics
- Energetic materials
- Thermite
- Flares for Landscape Management and Fire Protection
- Autoclave Aerated Concrete (AAC), Lightweight Cement
- Cellular concrete
Electrical conductivity
- Solutions for Electro-Magnetic-Interference (EMI) Shielding
- Pastes for Solar/Photo Voltaic (PV)
Thermal Conductivity
- Refractory Materials – components for molten metal Flow Control
- Interface Materials for Thermal Management for Micro-Processors
Lightweight, strength, corrosion resistance et al.
- Metal printed parts for Aerospace, Defense, Motorsports et al.
- Coatings and repairs (Diffusion Coatings, Thermal/Cold Spray Coatings
