Why Your Toughest Parts Still Use 50-Year-Old Materials w/ Fazal Mahmood

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Co-founder and CEO of Phaseshift Technologies, Fazal Mahmood, will tell you that much of modern industry still runs on metal alloys introduced half a century ago. Better ones are possible. Proving one works is harder and far more expensive than inventing it, and that’s where most new materials die.

In this episode, we explore why that’s finally changing. You’ll hear where additive manufacturing landed after the hype burned off, how technologies like nuclear fusion and hotter-running aircraft engines have outrun the materials they were built from and why a supply shock in tungsten pushed some of the most change-resistant industries in the world to start looking for alternatives. We’ll also get into what a small-to-midsize manufacturer should actually do with any of this.