SAO
PAULO, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- QuesTek
Innovations has launched a partnership with CBMM, the world's
leading producer of Niobium. The partnership will push the
boundaries of materials engineering and open a new frontier of
capabilities through the expanded use of Niobium.
Through the partnership, QuesTek will explore material
compositions leveraging Niobium to achieve high strength and heat
resistance in novel alloys suitable for additive manufacturing.
Using its ICMD® materials design and engineering platform,
QuesTek can explore the addition of Niobium to a wide array of
alloys as well as how current Niobium alloys can be optimized.
"In the world of high-temperature metal alloys, right now
Niobium is one of the most-promising candidates," says QuesTek
executive vice president of market operations Jason Sebastian. "When it comes to turbines,
rocket engines and hypersonic materials, the hotter they can run
the more fuel-efficient they become. This partnership between CBMM
and QuesTek is positioned to enable new levels of performance
through niobium-containing novel materials."
Partnership with CBMM is a natural next step for QuesTek to
leverage their experience with designing Niobium alloys under the
ARPA-E "ULTIMATE" program. In this program QuesTek is applying
computational materials design to additive manufacturing (AM),
coating technology, and turbine design/manufacturing to develop a
comprehensive solution for a next-generation turbine blade alloy
and coating system capable of sustained operation at 1300°C. As a
part of this program, QuesTek has developed and matured several
physics-based material property models, and has develop kinetic and
thermodynamic databases for niobium alloy systems exclusive to
QuesTek.
QuesTek's digital capabilities using ICMD® dramatically reduces
the amount of physical experimentation needed to design, develop
and deploy novel materials. While the partnership with CBMM is
focused exclusively on Niobium alloys, ICMD® is capable of
optimizing countless other materials and applications.
"Nickel-based superalloys could be reaching their full potential
of optimization," says Rafael
Mesquita, CBMM's Technology Director. "QuesTek is at the
forefront of the digital transformation of materials engineering
and this partnership creates the opportunity to achieve more of the
vast potential of Niobium for heat resistance and other properties.
ICMD® and QuesTek's expertise in physics-based modeling are
perfectly suited to unlock enormous unrealized value in Niobium
through new applications worldwide."
CBMM headquarters and industrial complex are located in the city
of Araxá, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Niobium is commonly added to steels
across a wide range of industries to enhance an alloy's wear
resistance and overall strength.
About QuesTek
QuesTek empowers innovators by
resolving materials-based challenges. QuesTek is both a pioneer and
current market leader in Integrated Computational Materials
Engineering (ICME). QuesTek's Materials by Design® technologies
have enabled new products and new thresholds of performance across
a wide range of industries including aerospace, automotive, medical
devices, consumer electronics and luxury goods. QuesTek's ICMD ®
SaaS offering has packaged QuesTek's IP and know-how into a client
accessible software platform for the first time. In recognition of
advancements in sustainability through materials engineering,
QuesTek was named a 2024 Top Impact Company by Real Leaders and
listed on TechRound's Sustainability60. Headquartered in
Evanston, Illinois. QuesTek has
additional locations in Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Solna, Sweden; and Tokyo. Questek.com
About CBMM
World leader in the production and marketing of Niobium products,
CBMM has more than 500 customers in over 50 countries.
Headquartered in Brazil, with
regional offices in China,
the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the
United States, the company supplies products and technology
to the infrastructure, mobility, aerospace, healthcare, and energy
sectors. The company has a New Business front to support its growth
plans through the development of new applications that is focused
on accelerating the entry, into the global market, of Niobium
technology. In the last 5 years, CBMM has made strategic
investments aiming at new developments in Niobium materials for
Li-ion batteries. Since its foundation, CBMM has developed projects
in Brazil and in several countries
around the world to foster the adoption of Niobium technology by
several industries. For further information, please visit
https://cbmm.com/en.
Contact:
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860-526-1555
379826@email4pr.com
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