This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix them until they form a new, better metal. An early stage startup, Foundation Alloy, has developed a new alloying technique that beats the ingredients instead of melting them. “We’re actually smashing metal powder particles together instead of melting them,” Jake Guglin, co-founder and CEO of Foundation Alloy, told TechCrunch.
- ▪How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix them until they form a new, better metal.
- ▪An early stage startup, Foundation Alloy, has developed a new alloying technique that beats the ingredients instead of melting them.
- ▪“We’re actually smashing metal powder particles together instead of melting them,” Jake Guglin, co-founder and CEO of Foundation Alloy, told TechCrunch.
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How humans alloy metals is essentially the same today as it was in the Bronze Age: Melt some different metals in a pot and mix them until they form a new, better metal. An early stage startup, Foundation Alloy, has developed a new alloying technique that beats the ingredients instead of melting them. “We’re actually smashing metal powder particles together instead of melting them,” Jake Guglin, co-founder and CEO of Foundation Alloy, told TechCrunch. “We can create properties that other people can’t.” So far, the startup has been selling its bespoke metals in small batches, but Guglin said his company is “constrained by our ability to make stuff, not by the people that want to take it.” Judging by the types of industries Foundation Alloy is selling into, it seems everyone wants better…
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