Fusematic Bonding Technology —
Intellectual Property & Equipment Available for Acquisition
Fusematic Corporation’s unique portable rotary friction welding technology, related intellectual property, and remaining equipment are now being offered for sale.
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Our product development, manufacturing and operations teams are no longer active. The Board of Directors has initiated an orderly disposition process and is inviting qualified buyers with strategic interest in advanced friction welding and engineered fastening solutions.
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About the technology
Fusematic Bonding™ technology is a rotary friction-welding, solid-state joining process that uses controlled friction rather than flame to bond metals at the molecular level. The process produces consistent, high‑strength, API‑compliant bonds in a fraction of the time required by traditional welding methods.
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Using a pneumatically driven, portable machine tool, the system rotates a metallic fastener against a metallic substrate under axial pressure, generating localized heat that plasticizes the interface and forms a permanent solid‑state bond without arc, open flame, or filler materials. This enables reliable attachment of studs and bosses, including many dissimilar metal pairs, across the steels and alloys commonly used in heavy industrial, marine, and energy assets.
Key advantages
Safety and cold-work operation
The system is air‑powered and sparkless, eliminating gas, electrical arcs, and open flames, significantly reducing ignition risk and often avoiding the need for hot work permits on operating assets. This makes it suitable for hazardous and explosive environments where traditional welding can lead to shutdowns, increased permit complexity, and extensive gas freeing.
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Speed, repeatability, and quality
Process controls deliver rapid, repeatable weld cycles that achieve the required coded strengths and joint integrity with minimal technician variability. Typical operators can reach practical proficiency in approximately 1–2 hours of training, improving labor flexibility and field deployment.
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Portability and access to difficult locations
The man‑portable system, hoses, and fixtures allow deployment onshore, topside, subsea, and in confined or elevated locations where conventional welding equipment is impractical. Attachments can be made on the surface, underwater, and in specialized environments such as space platforms, enabling fast retrofit and repair without extensive scaffolding or heavy rigging.
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Economic and operational benefits
By enabling cold‑work attachment on live assets, Fusematic Bonding can reduce or eliminate downtime associated with draining, cleaning, and gas‑freeing tanks, pipelines, and vessels before welding. Faster, lower‑distortion bonding and higher production rates support compelling ROI for turnaround, maintenance, and construction programs.
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Potential market upside
Traditional industrial maintenance is constrained by a fundamental economic inefficiency: the prohibitive cost of production loss from asset shutdowns. Research from McKinsey & Company quantifies the reliability gap in refining alone as representing $20 million to $50 million in lost profit opportunities annually for a median-performing refinery compared to top-quartile peers. This cost structure creates a perverse incentive toward deferred maintenance and reactive, crisis-driven operations rather than proactive, preventive reliability strategies.
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​Fusematic's friction-bonding technology fundamentally transforms this paradigm by enabling repairs on live, fully operational assets without shutdowns or production losses. As an API 653-certified process, it eliminates hot work permits and the cascade of costs triggered by system isolation, gas freeing, and extended downtime. This economic transformation creates several strategic advantages:
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​Transition to proactive reliability programs
By removing the shutdown cost penalty, organizations can economically justify investment in preventive maintenance and systematic asset integrity programs, directly capturing the $20–50 million reliability gap and establishing sustainable, predictable operations.
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​Enhanced operational efficiency
The friction bonding process is faster than traditional welding—unskilled technicians can complete a bond in under 15 minutes with minimal training. The man-portable, highly automated system eliminates the need for extensive scaffolding, specialized labor, and access preparation, reducing total downtime, labor costs, and project risk.
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​Maximized asset availability
Maintaining and repairing assets while in service dramatically increases revenue-generating uptime, enhances total return on assets, and eliminates the disruptive and costly cycle of emergency shutdowns. For operators, this translates to more predictable cash flow and reduced exposure to catastrophic failure risk.
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​Safety and environmental benefits
By eliminating hot work and molten metal, the technology drastically reduces ignition risk in hazardous environments, improves safety culture, and generates zero emissions or waste, simplifying regulatory compliance and supporting ESG objectives.
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​For service contractors and OEM partners, the technology represents a defensible competitive moat and positions the firm as the premium provider for critical industrial infrastructure bonding. Early adopters of this technology and intellectual property can establish leadership in a market segment currently constrained by the high cost and operational disruption of traditional methods.
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Representative applications
Energy, refining, and petrochemicals
Attachment of supports brackets, clamps, cable trays, and corrosion‑control hardware to tanks, pipelines, furnaces, FCC units, boilers, vessels, and structural steel on operating facilities. The technology is suited for turnaround work, onstream repairs, and reliability programs where reduced shutdown time and minimized ignition risk are critical.
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Marine, offshore, and subsea
Installation of attachments on hulls, decks, topsides structures, and subsea assets where underwater or splash‑zone welding is required. Portable deployment and cold‑work operation improve productivity and reduce the need for dry‑docking or full system isolation.
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Aerospace, defense, and advanced infrastructure
Rotary friction welding of engineered fasteners in demanding environments where high‑integrity joints and controlled heat input are required. The underlying intellectual property supports further adaptation to orbital, lunar, and other specialized infrastructure applications.
Assets available for acquisition
Rights associated with the Fusematic Bonding process, portable rotary friction welding tools, and related know‑how, documentation, and training materials. The portfolio is designed to support differentiated service offerings and product development in industrial services, OEM solutions, and advanced infrastructure markets.
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A limited number of complete Fusematic Bonding System kits are available, including pneumatic welding tools, manifolds, hoses, clamps, power and control modules, and related jigs and fixtures. These systems are designed for rapid deployment by industrial service contractors and owner‑operators in turnaround, retrofit, repair, and fabrication environments.
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Existing technical overviews, case examples, and training content are available that demonstrate the safety, performance, and economic benefits versus traditional welding methods. These materials can accelerate integration into an acquirer’s service, engineering, or product portfolio.
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Contact for inquiries
Qualified parties interested in acquiring the Fusematic Bonding intellectual property, remaining equipment, or related assets are invited to email info@fusematiccorp.com to initiate a confidential discussion. Please include a brief description of your organization, target applications, and proposed use of the technology so that appropriate technical and commercial information can be shared under a suitable NDA.