Commercial exploitation of cellular metals
This page lists companies which commerially produce, sell or use cellular metals.

Alantum (Korea and Germany): Nickel and iron foams.

Alulight (Austria): Aluminium foams (powder route).

Alusion (Canada): Provide aluminium foam products to the architectural and design industries (division of Cymat corporation).

Chand Eisenmann Metallurgical (USA): Porous sintered materials.

Cymat (Canada): Aluminium foams (liquid metal route).

Dream Metals (Korea): Aluminium foam.

Dunlop Equipment (England): Metal foam material.

ERG Materials and Aerospace Corporation (USA): Cast metal sponges with open cells.

ECOCONTACT (France): Foams for electrical connections in high power circuits.

Fraunhofer Institute (Germany): Aluminium foams by powder-metallurgy.

Gleich GmbH (Germany): European dealer for Alporas aluminium foams.

Hütte Klein-Reichenbach Ges.m.b.H (Austria): Metcomb aluminium foam (liquid metal route). Contact: Herbert Flankl

Inco (Canada): Nickel metal sponges with open cells. Data sheet available

IWE Greifswald: Aluminium foams (powder route).

Korea Metal Foam (Korea): Cast metal sponges with open cells.

Lyrun Metal Foam (China): Nickel, iron, copper foams.

Metafoam Technologies (Canada): Development and commercialization of open-cell metal foam.

Mitshubshi Materials (Japan): Supplier of open cell metal foams.

M-Pore (Germany): Cast metal sponges with open cells.

Porvair Advanced Materials (USA): Reticulated metal structures (Cu, Ni, Ti, Fe, Pt, Ag + many alloys).

RECEMAT Internationals (Netherlands): Supplier of open cell metal foams of Nickel and Nickel alloys. Sheets and products.

Reade Advanced Materials: Open cell metals (by electrodeposition and casting: Al, Cu, Hf, Pb, Ni, Nb, Re, Ta, Ti, W, Zn, Zr, steel).

Research Center for Aluminum Foam (China): Research oriented aluminium foam company (liquid metal route).

Shinko Wire Company Ltd. (Japan): Aluminium foam, trade name ALPORAS (liquid metal route) (in Japanese, only a pdf file is available in english).

Spectra-Mat (USA): tungsten and molybdenum open cell sponge components. Contact: Bob Cronk

Solea (France): Porous metals and porous metallic surfaces (>more). Contact: Christophe Desnoyer

Ultramet (USA): Refractory ceramic and metal metal sponges with open cells.

Al Carbon, Bremen (Germany): Composites Al foam + CFRP [web site in German]

Karmann GmbH, Osnabrück (Germany): Aluminum Foam Sandwich (AFS) (use search tool and look for "AFS")

Granta Design (Software tools), Cambridge (UK)