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As additive manufacturing materials become more complex, consistent material preparation becomes harder, and more important. Powder blends, binders, composites, and other advanced systems all depend on reliable mixing to support printability, repeatability, and scale-up.

On June 25, 2026, Montana Mixers’ Peter Lucon, PhD, PE, will lead a webinar on how resonant mixing can help AM teams improve material preparation from early formulation through production.

The session, “From Faster Development to More Consistent Production: Resonant Mixing for AM Materials,” is being hosted by 3Dnatives. You can view the event listing on 3Dnatives here or go directly to the webinar registration page.

What the webinar will cover

This webinar will look at how resonant mixing supports additive manufacturing material development by improving dispersion, reducing process variability, and making it easier to mix powders, binders, composites, and other demanding material systems including nano-coatings.

Attendees will learn how resonant mixing differs from conventional mixing methods, where it offers practical advantages for AM material preparation, and how the same process principles can scale from lab work to pilot trials and production.

The session will also cover Dry Metal Alloying, or DMA, an approach that uses VROM’s particle dispersion and coating capabilities to produce LPBF-printable alloys directly from their constituent materials. For teams working on alloy development, DMA offers a different path for creating printable materials without relying only on pre-alloyed powders.

Who should attend

This webinar is designed for materials scientists, process engineers, AM researchers, and production teams looking to improve how materials are prepared and shorten the path from development to manufacturing.

About the presenters

Peter Lucon, PhD, PE, is Chief Innovation Officer at Montana Mixers. He is a mechanical engineer with deep experience in product development, machine design, and advanced processing systems, and he holds 16 granted U.S. patents.

Layton Bahnmiller is an application engineer at Montana Mixers and recently successfully defended his Masters thesis in mechanical engineering, focused on resonant mixing material behavior. He brings highly relevant practical resonant mixing and processing experience to the conversation. 

Montana Mixers is the company behind VROM, Vertical Resonant Oscillating Mixers built for fast, consistent, and scalable material processing across lab, pilot, and production environments.

Webinar details

Date: June 25, 2026
Time: 4:00–5:00 PM CEST / 10:00–11:00 AM ET

Register for the webinar

Montana Mixers was recently featured in 3DNatives in an interview with Dr. Peter Lucon, Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder, discussing the growing importance of material preparation in additive manufacturing workflows.

As additive manufacturing shifts from prototyping to production, consistency has become one of the industry’s central challenges. The article highlights how variability in powder preparation can affect repeatability, mechanical properties, and development timelines. In many cases, the bottleneck is not the printer itself, but the material entering the process.

The discussion explores how Montana Mixers’ Vertical Resonant Oscillatory Mixing (VROM™) technology addresses these challenges by enabling rapid, high-energy mixing without internal blades or impellers. This approach reduces contamination risks, improves homogeneity, and allows processes developed at laboratory scale to transition to production volumes without changing the underlying mixing physics.

The interview also examines how material preparation workflows must evolve as additive manufacturing moves toward serial production, where repeatability, documentation, and throughput become critical.

You can read the full interview on 3DNatives here:
https://www.3dnatives.com/en/montana-mixers-am-material-preperation-02032026/

For companies working with advanced alloys, recycled powder conditioning, or particle coating applications, the article offers insight into why upstream processing is increasingly central to reliable AM production.