Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development

The Center for Advanced Joining of Materials (CAJM) is developing enhancements and new technologies based on friction stir welding (FSW). FSW is a relatively new, innovative joining technology which is revolutionizing the way in which aluminum, copper and other materials are being joined. The objectives are to develop enhancements to this existing technology that will broaden the use of this process in new materials and applications, and to transfer these technologies to
local, national and international companies.

The Center has been focused on the development and marketing of three technological aspects of FSW:

1. Tooling that will last longer, offer the ability to join a wider range of advanced materials, and enable better control of the resulting quality of the weld and its properties
2. New control systems and hardware for large scale, three-dimensional FSW capabilities
3. New methods and novel tooling for joining polymeric materials

• 11 pending and 2 issued patents
• Utah spin-out company Megastir

Megastir

Advanced Metal Products