The development of commercial production methods is being also systematically addressed at the Nanostructured Metals Manufacturing Testbed facility established in Golden, Colorado, in association with the Colorado School of Mines. This facility has multiple SPD machines networked together to transition research scale SPD processing into pilot scale production. Scale up of production rates and billet sizes have been demonstrated for alloys of magnesium, aluminium, titanium, copper, and iron.
Product development effects within this pilot scale manufacturing environment show the roles of enabling technologies such as on-machine process monitoring, design of tooling for high pressure, specialized lubrication schemes, and non-isothermal forming processes.