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Advanced Materials · Industrialization

The Industrialization Partner for Advanced Materials

We build the infrastructure for the next generation of materials — taking proven alloys from lab scale to full industrial production, predictably and fast.
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ServingOil & GasMiningIndustrialAutomotive
01 · The Problem

The material exists. The product exists. They just can't reach each other.

Better products wait for materials that never leave the lab — and better materials gather dust waiting for an industry that can't use them. Both sides lose to the same gap.
You build products
The part you need wears out too soon — and the material that would fix it is stuck in a lab.

The scale-up gap

The step nobody owns.

You create materials
It shines at gram scale — but industry needs tonnage data you can't yet produce.

Crossing it takes years of process development, pilot batches and qualification — work neither a research lab nor a production team is built to do. It's exactly the work we exist for.

02 · Our Approach

We make the path straight.

A structured route from lab to industry — fewer steps, faster results, no surprises at full scale.
The hard way

Too many trials

Lab
Industry
ScaleNexus way

Fewer steps. Faster results.

Lab
Screening
Testing
Validation
Industry
03 · Track Record

We've already done this. At scale.

Mining-steel industrialization: Mangalloy → 110G13L, an aluminium-stabilized L1₂ alloy — taken all the way to production excavator teeth.

Saved annually

$7.8M

Delivered through longer-lasting parts and less downtime for a single mining client.

14,000

tonnes / year produced

Excavator teeth

Final product in the field

Measured property gains vs. the incumbent material
Ultimate Tensile Strength+36%
Yield Strength+25%
Elongation+25%

Tougher teeth degraded more slowly and lasted longer in the field before wear-out.

04 · What we do

From first article to qualified production.

The deliverables, the lab and methods behind them, and where we sit in the materials pipeline.
Where we sit
The missing middle.
We start where alloy design ends and hand off qualification-ready production.
UpstreamAlloy DesignUniversities · R&DQuesTek · Alloyed
ScaleNexusIndustrializationLab → ProductionQualification-ready documentation
DownstreamTest & CertifyElement · NadcapIMR · Westmoreland
What you get
  1. 1
    Scoping

    Risk assessment

    Failure modes, flagged before you tool up.

  2. 2
    Phase I

    Process window

    Repeatable parameters that hold in production.

  3. 3
    Phase II

    First-article

    A validated full-size production part.

  4. 4
    Multi-year

    Qualification dossier

    Certification-ready, packaged to submit.

Our lab & methods
Computational screening
Thousands of variants, narrowed to the few worth testing.
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Our own R&D lab
Material and process, proven in-house before your line runs it.
Specialized partner labs
Additive, corrosion and specialist testing, on demand.
05 · Working together

Who we take on — and how we run it.

Our fit criteria, the engagement model, and the story behind ScaleNexus.
Where it ships
Four markets, worldwide.
Who we work with
You bring a proven material.

A proven material

Validated at lab scale — yours or licensed.

A deadline in months

Qualified production in 6–18 months, not years.

An industrial end market

Parts for oil & gas, mining, industrial or automotive.

How we engage
Start small. Scale up.

Scoping

Feasibility assessment

Phase I

Process scale-up & property-prediction report

Phase II

Production plan, qualification strategy & procurement

Multi-year

Chemistry optimization, heat-treatment scaling & standards submission

About
Why we exist.
Founded by materials engineers who watched proven alloys die between the lab and the line — because nobody owned the path to tonnage.
Headquarters
Mountain View, CA, USA
Contact
info@scale-nexus.com
06 · Partners

Who we work with.

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Tensor AI
Software development
07 · FAQ

Questions clients ask first.

Straight answers to the questions we hear most.
Predictable Scale · Validated Speed

Don't discover scale-up problems when it's already too late.

Tell us about your material and where it's stuck — you'll get a straight answer on whether, and how, we can take it to production.
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