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Enabling Mission Critical Capability

Castheon specializes in helping companies in the defense, space, and energy sectors overcome production challenges and build a foundation for strategic competitive advantage with additive manufacturing.

Staying at the Leading Edge

What We Do

In the ever-evolving landscape of defense and exploration technologies, it’s imperative that we reimagine the way we conceive and construct essential components such as combat planes, hypersonic vehicles, missiles, and high-temperature parts. This paradigm shift necessitates an innovative approach. Additive manufacturing stands as a game-changing technology, holding the potential to revolutionize the industry by facilitating faster and more robust production of military and defense equipment. By embracing this cutting-edge technology, organizations are enhancing sustainment strategies and significantly improving readiness in the face of ever-changing demands and challenges. We want to do the same with you.

Metal Additive

Discover design freedom, speed, and cost-efficiency with Castheon’s metal expertise. Tailored to aerospace, defense, and medical needs, our advanced metal printing delivers precise, complex components. Collaborate with the ADDMAN Group to enhance your additive manufacturing capabilities and stay competitive. Join us in revolutionizing additive manufacturing for top-tier metal components. Your vision, our mission.

Materials

Castheon is dedicated to meeting your unique needs by expertly crafting materials ideally suited for our advanced additive machines. We take pride in our track record of success, tailoring materials to match your requirements across various industries. Our team of material science experts ensures that we select the perfect materials for your project, emphasizing our commitment to delivering the best possible results just for you.

Material & Process Development

Our dedicated experts are constantly innovating, creating and refining metal alloys to ensure they’re ideal for your AM needs. Quality is our priority – we strive to meet the highest industry standards for performance and durability in AM parts. Trust us to provide top-notch materials tailored for aerospace, defense, medical, and other high-performance industries. With Castheon Inc, rest assured you’re getting the very best for your AM applications. Your success is our mission.

EXPLORING A SUPERALLOY THAT REDEFINES FLIGHT

How Niobium C103 is Paving the Way for Next-Generation Materials

Embark on an aerospace journey like never before. Our eBook unveils the incredible story of Niobium C103—a superalloy that has earned its wings in the aerospace industry. Dive into the historical narrative, understand its unmatched properties, and witness its transformational role in aviation. Ready to soar? Download the eBook now.

Elevating Industrial Standards:

Our Proprietary Technique for Durable, High-Temperature Components

Castheon specializes in the additive manufacturing of Super C103 components, employing a proprietary and patented metal AM technique. This cutting-edge method distributes high-grain carbon particles within Niobium C103 powder during the Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) process. This enhancement considerably reinforces the structural integrity of the high-temperature material. The result is components that deliver outstanding strength and durability, perfectly suited for critical applications demanding exceptional performance under extreme temperatures.

Our Technical Foundations

Meet Dr. Youping Gao, Founder and Chief Scientist

Established in 2016 by Dr. Youping Gao, Castheon bears the vision of advancing additive industrialization, high-pressure material processing, and the development of advanced strength alloys. Dr. Gao brings to the forefront a distinguished career spanning over 30 years, deeply rooted in hypersonics and rocket propulsion. This expertise was cultivated during his tenure at esteemed defense primes, culminating in a significant achievement — being the recipient of NASA’s inaugural production certification for Additive Manufacturing (AM) produced parts crucial to manned spaceflight mission hardware.

The "Gao Block" Standard

The Gao Block is a physical metallurgy-based creation that accelerates and enhances the improvement of AM parameters and microstructure, resulting in the strongest possible material strength. Not only does it quicken the AM process parameters, but it also helps enhance the microstructure for top-notch material qualities. A seamless build of a Gao Block without any distortions is a clear indicator of successful AM parameters for a particular alloy.

Together, we can speed up the innovation of tomorrow. Let's talk.

Our collective ability to create is boundless, limited only by the scope of our imagination. Your story is the starting point for this journey.