K Home International Ltd

Rotherham-based additive manufacturing (AM) technology company Metalysis has unveiled a new partnership with Teesside engineering and design consultancy K Home International.The agreement will draw together the industry expertise of both companies to progress the commercial application of Metalysis' technology, further expanding its capacity, lowering production costs and increasing efficiency.K Home will become Metalysis' preferred engineering partner in a partnership which comes after the South Yorkshire business recently secured 20m pounds of new investment, with Iluka Resources and Woodford Patient Capital Trust injecting new funds into the expansion of the company's production and development capabilities.Metalysis' technology transforms ores directly into metal powders using electrolysis in a technique which can be used to lower the cost of producing high value products such as titanium and tantalum.With K Home International working alongside Metalysis, production technologies will be "finessed and expanded" for partners and customers.Dion Vaughan, chief executive of Metalysis, said: "This partnership represents a very exciting opportunity to bring together such immense, complementary expertise to expand and strengthen our production capacity."This combined experience, underpinned by a recent injection of investment, represents a powerful platform for growth, which will enable us to deliver greater volumes of product for our customers and support further innovation in new sectors going forward."Andrew Home, chief executive of K Home International, added: "Bringing together our team with our partners at Metalysis represents a fantastic opportunity to build on the success of numerous projects that we have collectively delivered over the past few years."Teesside and Yorkshire both have a track record in the development of pioneering technologies and engineering processes."We are very excited to be playing our role in continuing that tremendous tradition, and expanding the opportunities that we can offer our people and other highly skilled engineers in the region in the future."View more......