We went to Zahner an architecture and design company in Kansas City a few weeks ago and it was the first company that we went to that experiments with materials regularly. They mostly make big metal features for well known companies such as Burberry, Denies and many others. They had a lot of tools for cutting mettle and such but the most unique one we saw was the water cutter that could actually cut through metal.

Interesting fact they designed an architectural piece for the "vomitory" of NASA.