The UMAMI
Fit For Purpose™
Fit for Purpose™
Process
Custom alloy formulation integrated with optimised manufacturing. Locally sourced. Locally produced. Continuously improved through Swarm Intelligence. Immune to global disruption.
Source Intelligence
Local Urban Mine.
Post-consumer waste – cans, profiles, automotive parts – sorted and characterised. Each stream’s composition informs the Fit for Purpose design.
Local source means: no chokepoints, no sanctions risk, no 16-week lead time. Resilient AND circular in the same step.
Alloy Chip Formulation
Custom, Not Standard.
A proprietary alloy chip – precisely formulated metallic additive – converts specific waste into certified alloy with exact target properties for the application.
Alloy
Formulation
The Other Half.
The chip is half the innovation. For each partner’s specific equipment, we develop optimised manufacturing parameters matched to the alloy. Tool speeds, temperatures, feed rates, cooling – calibrated so material and process work as one integrated system.
Result: reduced cycle times, lower defect rates, superior surface finishes, lower production cost.
Production & Swarm Intelligence
Continuous Improvement.
Hub partners produce using the complete Fit for Purpose system – custom alloy + optimised process. Every production cycle feeds data into Swarm Intelligence – identifying improvements, predicting quality issues, distributing best practices across all hubs.
The system gets smarter with every kilogram produced. The network gets more resilient with every hub added.
Swarm
Intelligence™
The Network Learns With Every Part Produced.
Every UMAMI production cycle generates insight – material behaviour, process performance, quality patterns. Swarm Intelligence captures it, translates it into actionable knowledge, and makes it available to every partner through intuitive dashboards.
Input your application requirements, equipment parameters, and constraints. The system calculates optimal alloy and process settings – drawing on the accumulated experience of every project across the entire network.
This is not data collection. It is shared competitive advantage.
Continuous material and process innovations – developed from real production, not theory. And it compounds: every new hub, every new partner, every new project makes the system smarter for everyone inside it.
Quality ManagementZero Compromise
Every Batch. Every Component. Every Hub. The Same Standard.
UMAMI’s quality system exists for one reason: to ensure that certified circular origin never introduces a single compromise in material performance, traceability, or process control. Circular origin changes nothing about what you can demand from the material – and what we guarantee.
Incoming
Inspection
Batch
Traceability
Process
Control
Certification
& Audit
MATERIAL CERTIFICATION. Every alloy batch ships with full material certificates per EN 10204 Type 3.1 – chemical composition, mechanical properties, heat treatment records. Independently tested. Independently verified. Identical documentation to what you receive from any primary aluminium supplier today. No gaps. No asterisks.
BATCH-LEVEL TRACEABILITY. Every component traces back to: identified waste source, smelting batch, alloy chip lot, casting parameters, processing parameters, quality test results. Full chain of custody from post-consumer collection to your receiving dock. If a question arises in five years, the answer exists in the system.
PROCESS CONTROL. Statistical Process Control (SPC) runs across every hub. Critical-to-quality dimensions monitored in real-time. Control limits set tighter than industry standard. Deviations trigger automatic hold – no operator override possible. First Article Inspection (FAI) on every new production run. Ongoing Cp/Cpk documentation available upon request.
HUB CERTIFICATION. Every UMAMI hub partner maintains: ISO 9001 (quality management), ISO 14001 (environmental management). Hub-specific quality plans developed for each product. Annual audits – internal and third-party. Non-conformance triggers immediate containment, root cause analysis (8D methodology), and corrective action with verification.
CONSISTENCY ACROSS THE NETWORK. The Swarm Intelligence system monitors quality patterns across all hubs. If one hub achieves superior results – the insight propagates. If one hub shows drift – the system flags it before it reaches your threshold. Network-wide quality is not the average of its parts. It is the best of its parts, shared continuously.
YOUR RISK: ZERO. Circular material. Conventional quality assurance. The certificates look the same. The test reports look the same. The tolerances are the same – or tighter. The only difference: the material has 70–80% less CO₂ embedded in it. Everything else you verify exactly as you do today.