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.