Four markets. One scale-up gap.
Materials that survive the well.
Downhole tools, valves and wellhead components live with corrosive fluids, high pressure and elevated temperature at the same time. The alloys that handle it — including nickel-base grades — are notoriously sensitive to how they are melted, homogenized and worked.
A chemistry that performs in a lab heat can segregate, form unwanted phases or lose strength in a production ingot. That is the gap we close.
- Phase-stability screening before any melt
- Segregation and homogenization planning for production ingots
- Strength predicted at production scale, with its interval
Wear parts that last longer in the field.
Ground-engaging tools, liners and crusher parts are consumables — but every change-out is downtime. A tougher, longer-lasting material pays for itself in availability, not just in parts.
It is also where we have already delivered at scale.
- Wear-alloy chemistries taken to production tonnage
- Process windows validated on production equipment
- Property gains measured against the incumbent material
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
Mangalloy → 110G13L, an aluminium-stabilized L1₂ alloy: +36% ultimate tensile strength, +25% yield strength and +25% elongation versus the incumbent. See the track record →
Heat, pressure and abrasion, every shift.
Pumps, valves, process equipment and high-temperature components fail from the same few causes: wear, corrosion, creep and fatigue. Better materials for all four exist in labs; few reach the part catalogue.
We take them through scale-up and qualification so they can be specified with confidence.
- Material selection screened against your operating conditions
- First-article parts from production-representative processing
- Qualification dossiers packaged to submit
Stronger parts at production volume and cost.
Automotive programs demand high-strength materials that run at volume, on schedule and at a cost per kilogram the program can carry. A material that cannot hit all three never leaves the prototype stage.
We plan for cost and repeatability from the start, not after the first production trial.
- Cost per kilogram modelled from raw materials and processing
- Repeatable process parameters for volume production
- Timelines measured in months, not years