SINTX Technologies, Inc. announced the acquisition of Technology Assessment and Transfer, Inc.
TA&T, based in Maryland, is a nearly 40-year-old advanced ceramics business that specializes in developing and commercializing a broad array of innovative materials for defense, biomedical, and industrial applications. The company’s technologies and products include 3D printing of ceramic medical devices and heat exchangers, chemical vapor infiltration and deposition of complex fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites, and hot pressing of transparent armor and other technical ceramics. TA&T has a long track record of successfully winning research contracts and grants from the U.S. government and commercializing its innovative technologies.
As an example of TA&T’s innovation, ceramic heater bodies developed, designed, and manufactured by TA&T are a part of the Sample Analysis on Mars (SAM) instrument suite on board the Curiosity Rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/home/). These oven heater bodies were manufactured by TA&T using Ceramic Stereolithography, a form of 3D printing and additive manufacturing, and can withstand the extreme temperatures of more than 1,500°F that are required to heat soil samples on Mars in hopes of detecting signs of life. TA&T was selected by NASA to make these parts because of the prohibitive cost of traditional manufacturing techniques.
Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC served as the sole M&A Advisor on the transaction.
About SINTX Technologies, Inc.
SINTX Technologies is an OEM ceramics company that develops and commercializes advanced ceramics for medical and non-medical applications. The core strength of SINTX Technologies is the manufacturing, research, and development of ceramics for external partners. The company presently manufactures silicon nitride powders and components in its FDA registered, ISO 13485:2016 certified, and ASD9100D certified manufacturing facility.
For more information on SINTX Technologies or its advanced ceramics material platforms, please visit www.sintx.com.
About Technology Assessment and Transfer, Inc.
Technology Assessment and Transfer, Inc. (TA&T) is a high technology small business that specializes in development of advanced, materials-oriented technologies for aerospace, defense, bio-medical and industrial applications. TA&T uses government research grants to support advanced technology research and development innovations and commercialize via limited production, technology licensing and cooperative partnerships. TA&T provides a host of services that includes 3D printing, PVD-CVD coatings, material processing-CMCs, CIP, PS, HP, HIP and material characterization for powders and finished parts-TGA/DSC, PSD. SA, Dilatometry, UV-VIS and FTIR transmission, haze and clarity.