When Alloyed officially launched ABD-900AM back in 2020, it had cracked the code on high-strength, crack-free metal additive manufacturing (AM) for some of the most demanding applications in aerospace and turbomachinery.
This Nickel-based superalloy, as Alloyed co-founder André Németh tells me, is one of the best examples out there of how new materials can be an enabling force for new AM applications.
“We’re now really seeing integration into systems,” Németh says of ABD‑900AM’s adoption. “We’re seeing an uptake in use and how a material designed bottom up for additive manufacturing enables new components. Because of its metallurgy, it also handles stresses and temperature ranges across a single part so, as you integrate more parts, your stress and temperature distributions get more complex. And that’s really where we’re seeing an advantage here.”
As the first nickel-based superalloy to be developed specifically for laser powder bed fusion, it served as a repeatable, consistent, and reliable proof point for the demands of next-generation high-temperature components working within the 800–900°C range. Now, Alloyed, a spinout of Oxford University which specialises in advanced alloy development and production, is pushing it a step further - about 100°C further.
