Solid-State Bonding Systems for
America's Critical Manufacturing Future
Orbital Bond joins titanium and advanced metals faster, with fewer defects, lower cost, and no heat-affected zone — expanding manufacturing capacity for defense, aerospace, and power generation.
An advanced manufacturing company building solid-state bonding infrastructure.
Orbital Bond builds machine-based bonding systems for defense, aerospace, power generation, and critical industrial production — joining titanium and advanced metals without melting the parent material.
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A convergence of demand, scarcity, and capability.
Defense Delivery Pressure
Primes need faster production of submarines, aerospace systems, and munitions. Current methods are too slow and labor-intensive.
Machine-Based Solution
Traditional welding depends on highly skilled welders who are increasingly scarce. Orbital Bond automates the critical joining process.
Faster Modification
Traditional mold modifications can take 4–5 months. Orbital Bond enables faster process changes and part development.
Higher Quality, Lower Cost
Zero-melt, parent-metal-strength bonds with less waste, lower energy, no filler, no shielding gas, and fewer defects.
Additive Partner
Serves as the post-print joining layer for large tactical assemblies requiring parent-material strength.
Traditional titanium welding is slow, expensive, and quality-constrained.
High-paid AWS/ASME certified titanium welders — increasingly scarce
3–6 hours per joint for certain titanium tube welds
Extensive cleaning, oxide removal, fixturing and inspection
Shielding gas, trailing gas, back-purge gas, filler, tungsten, nozzles
Chemical disposal and environmental burden
Costly QC — liquid penetrant, X-ray, ultrasonic, clean rooms, oxygen monitoring
Heat-affected zones that alter parent-metal properties and create fatigue risk
Fast, lower-cost, verifiable bonding.
A machine-based solid-state process that removes the labor, consumables, and quality risk of traditional titanium welding.
A dual-technology platform of machines.
While titanium is the primary focus, Orbital Friction Welding can join a wide range of dissimilar metals.
Linear Friction Welding
- Solid-state bonding via high-frequency linear oscillation under compressive force
- Frictional heating plasticizes the interface — no melting of parent materials
- Established technology · certified for flight-critical hardware
- Production-proven for high-strength aerospace bonding
Orbital Friction Welding
- Proprietary next-generation process using orbital motion and compressive force
- Precision molecular bonds across advanced geometries
- Unlocks dissimilar-metal combinations conventional methods cannot achieve
- U.S. first-mover technology
Scalable machine platform.
Identical process physics deployed across multiple machine sizes — from prototype development to high-throughput production cells.
28 sq in
Bond Envelope
Submarine hull-ring transition segments · DDG-51 gas-turbine mount frames · engine case-to-flange sections · launch-vehicle interstage ring splice segments
The industrial base, in numbers.
Foundry
The number of U.S. foundries capable of producing large titanium castings today.
Ships
Current U.S. Navy fleet versus a national requirement approaching 400 vessels.
Critical Minerals Funding
Federal capital allocated to securing domestic supply of strategic materials.
High Throughput
Machine-based manufacturing designed for continuous, scalable production.
Where the platform operates.
Defense
Airframe · Munitions · Armor
Aerospace
Engine · Structure · Nozzle
Naval
Hull · Pressure Vessel
Space
Propulsion · Bus · Payload
Power Generation
Turbine · Rotor · Blade
Energy
Pipeline · Well · Refinery
Advanced Manufacturing
Additive · Casting · Forging
Autonomous Systems
UAV · UUV · UGV
Deployed across the mission set.
Aircraft
Titanium airframe subassemblies, engine mounts, and load-bearing structural components joined without heat-affected zones.
The Manufacturing Advantage
A large and growing market for advanced joining.
Total Addressable Market
Estimated U.S. advanced materials joining market annually.
Serviceable Addressable Market
Estimated U.S. solid-state joining market aligned with Orbital Bond's business model.
Serviceable Obtainable Market
Early realistic capture based on 5–10% of SAM annually.
Five revenue pillars.
Machine Sales
Scalable machine platform sales across defense, aerospace and industrial customers.
Engineering
Research, development and validation contracts for advanced joining programs.
Support
Annual and semi-annual service contracts, training, and machine support.
Custom Add-Ons
Tooling packages, automation, and integration packages for production cells.
Job Shop
In-house bonding services for customers that cannot initially justify CapEx.
Not another welding company.
A scalable solid-state bonding
machine platform for America.
Operators from defense, aerospace, and industry.
Steve Johnson
Co-Founder · Chief Technical Officer
World-leading expert in solid-state bonding. Former CTO at MTI, inventor of Orbital Friction Welding, founder of APCI, ITW and CMM. Experience serving Boeing, NASA, SpaceX, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce.
Eric Overbey
Co-Founder · President
25 years as CEO with proven hyper-growth scale. Transformed a $2M axle manufacturing company into a $150M enterprise in 10 years, becoming the second largest in its market.
Dr. John M. Starkey
Technical Advisor
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Directed a premier engineering design and prototyping program for over three decades. Purdue honors his contributions annually through the John M. Starkey Prize.
John P. Stupp Jr.
Strategic Advisor
Chairman and CEO of Stupp Bros., a sixth-generation industrial manufacturer founded in 1856 — a 170-year legacy of industrial execution, quality, infrastructure and American manufacturing leadership.
Col. Darryl W. "Dee" Daugherty
Strategic Defense Advisor
30+ years in the U.S. Army, culminating as Chief of Staff of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command. OCS Hall of Fame inductee with deep logistics, federal acquisition, readiness, startup and M&A experience.
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Orbital Bond partners with strategic investors and institutions who share our vision for rebuilding critical domestic manufacturing capability.
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Orbital Bond partners with institutions, agencies, primes, and strategic commercial customers shaping the reindustrialization of the United States.