Beamalloy Technologies, LLC was originally founded in 1984 (as BeamAlloy Corporation) with the goal of developing and industrializing the use of direct ion implantation for non-semiconductor applications. The result was the development of the ion beam enhanced deposition (IBED) process, which was patented in 1991. In 1998, Worthington Industries (NYSE, WOR) became interested in the IBED coating technology because of its potential application as a coating for flat rolled coil steel. A joint R&D project was initiated and successfully completed, which resulted in the eventual acquisition of BeamAlloy Corporation by Worthington Industries in 2000.
From 2000 through 2003, engineering staff at Worthington BeamAlloy specified, designed, and constructed an industrial-scale IBED coating system which has the volume capacity and production economics needed to process volumes of engineered components and manufacturing tooling. This coating system is currently being used to provide toll coating services for a variety of components and manufacturing tooling from a wide variety of industries.
In the fall of 2003, the BeamAlloy business was re-purchased from Worthington Industries by the original BeamAlloy founders and a group of private investors, and the business was reestablished as Beamalloy Technologies, LLC. The Company now operates in its own free-standing 12,000 square foot building in Plain City, Ohio.
Beamalloy recently finished construction and installation of a scaled-up IBED coating system capable of processing large individual parts and larger volumes of small parts. The system operates in a closed loop automatic mode, and can coat 3 dimensional parts with high precision and uniformity.