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About us
Blacksand Technology LLC and Heavystone Laboratory LLC are two separate spun-off companies from the University of Utah. Blacksand’s mission is to scale up and commercialize titanium technologies developed in partner with the team at the University of Utah guided by Professor Z. Zak Fang. In 2024, Blacksand successfully commercialized its entire portfolio of patented technologies, which spans from mineral processing to powder production and to final Ti alloy products, through its agreement with IperionX LLC. IperionX is engaged in full commercialization of the technologies to reshore the Ti supply chain to the US. Blacksand continues to pursue technological opportunities in the production of reactive metals, rare earth metals, and other metallurgical opportunities.
Heavystone Laboratory focused on cemented tungsten carbide, refractory metals, and ferrous metal powder and alloys. Heavystone successfully commercialized its functionally graded cemented tungsten carbide process technology through licensing of its patented technologies in the US, Europe, and China. Heavystone is now actively engaged in the development of process technologies for solid state steel making, i.e., the production of iron powder and steel products directly from concentrated minerals.
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Our Technologies
Iron & Steel Technologies
Hydrogen Reduction Melt-less Steelmaking (HRMLES) is a direct reduction and alloying process that produces steel products by circumventing traditional iron and steelmaking methods.
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Tungsten Carbide
Functionally graded cemented tungsten carbide technology offers a method for converting conventional cemented tungsten carbide with gradient properties from the surface to the core.
Titanium Technologies
The technologies encompass the production of Ti primary metal from ore, angular and spherical Ti alloy powders with oxygen content less than 1500 ppm or 1000 ppm depending on the specifications. Furthermore,
Melt-less Steelmaking
HRMLES enables direct reduction and alloying of ore concentrates to produce steel while eliminating high-energy steps used in conventional steelmaking.
Funded by ARPA-E in partnership with NETL and the University of Utah, this process significantly reduces energy consumption and operating temperatures.
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Blacksand Technology successfully commercialized its titanium technology portfolio through an agreement with IperionX LLC.
Today, Blacksand continues to explore new opportunities in reactive metals, rare earth metals, and advanced metallurgical processes.
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Additive Manufacturing
Sintering-based additive manufacturing:
- Binder-jet printing – Innovent
- Lithography metal printing (LMP) – Incus machine
Fusion-based AM:
- laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) – SLM 125
- Direct energy deposition (DED) – InsTek machine
Testing and Characterization, Processing
Materials testing and characterizations:
- Optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, XPS, XRD, TGA/DSL, BET, Laser PSD, Pycnometer, ICP, Vickers hardness, micro-hardness, Rockwell Hardness, MTS tensile and fatigue.
Processing:
- High energy ball milling: rolling ball mill, attritor mill, planetary ball milling, Spex mill, tumbling mixer, V-blender,
- Sintering: atmosphere-controlled tube furnaces, vacuum furnaces, muffle-furnaces, pilot-scale vacuum or atmosphere-controlled retort furnace, SPS, high temperature electric Kilns
Materials Research & Development
Expertise in Materials:
- Titanium,
- Cemented tungsten carbides
- Polycrystalline diamond
- Tungsten and other refractory metals
- Iron & steel
- Other metals
Expertise in processes:
- Metal powder production,
- Powder processing,
- Sintering,
- Near net shape manufacturing from powders.
- Prototype manufacturing
