Hi Champee
Your excellent "grab" of the USA company ATI and their interestin Hafnium , mad me have a look at their 2021 Annual Report .
A USA $5 Billion Market Cap company , they are dealing in the exact market place space of specialty metals , that ASM will be focusing with their KMP products .
Here's a few extracted notes from the Annual Report ...so its just not hafnium .
You would hope that ATI , is one of the USA COMPANIES that ASM is in close contact with , as intimated with their reference to "Usa parties "in recent ASX Releases .....and hope we find out more very soon .
2021 ATI Annual Report
A couple of snippets ;
#ATI is a producer of specialty materials, highly differentiated by our materials science expertise and advanced process technologies. We are a leader in aerospace and defense and leverage our expertise to adjacent high-value critical applications in the electronics, specialty energy and medical markets. Built on the strong foundation of our legacy companies, we are a global market-driven powerhouse: advanced, innovative, highly sophisticated and quality driven. As a partner with our customers, we are proven to perform in the most extreme conditions
#We were the first U.S. company to handle all aspects of reactive metal production, and we have been the leader ever since, producing commercial high-purity hafnium, niobium and zirconium and other specialty alloys in all conventional product forms.
#Our ability to work high-strength titanium, corrosion resistant nickel, and other sophisticated alloys into coil, strip, foil and plate for demanding applications is anchored by the most powerful roughing mill in the world, capable of rolling multiple alloy systems with 1,150 pounds of force per inch of width.
#Our niobium-hafnium-titanium alloys help spacecraft direct high-velocity, high-temperature gases to reach the final frontier.
#In superconducting magnets for MRI imaging, our niobium titanium alloys drive life-changing medical insights.
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