Castheon, Inc. an ADDMAN Group company, has expanded its operational and engineering infrastructure in southern California. Castheon specializes in materials for extreme environments like rocket propulsion and hypersonics, prints refractory alloys such as Niobium C103 and Super C103, and develops metallic alternatives for legacy composite hypersonic thermal protection systems.
Castheon is moving into a new facility with over 40,000 square feet of production, R&D, and engineering space. The square footage makes room for additional machines (more than 10 of them) and manufacturing processes, including large format printers, heat treatments, precision machining, and inspection for aerospace & defense applications.
Source: castheon.com
“When we 3D print the refractory alloys using our unique approach to metallurgy, we are seeing the intrinsic material properties that far exceed that of wrought equivalent," shares Dr. Youping Gao, an accomplished aerospace manufacturing veteran. "The magnitude improvement in strength, oxidation resistance, and creep resistance are all derived from the additive process’ ability in controlling the microscopic level of metallic grains”
