Sauber Motorsport is increasing its additive manufacturing capability with an order of 10 3D printers from 3D Methods.
The polymer methods, together with eight SLA 750 Duals and two PSLA 270s, are set broaden the Swiss motorsport engineering firm’s fast manufacturing capability for wind tunnel elements made with 3D Methods’ Accura Composite PIV, Accura Xtreme, and Determine 4 ceramic-filled supplies.
Marco Gehrig, head of mechanical & AM manufacturing, Sauber Group stated, “The benchmarks performed on the SLA 750 yielded elements with higher floor high quality and required much less post-processing than the present machines in use. Our group is trying ahead to utilizing the business’s most superior SLA expertise accessible to extend our manufacturing pace, high quality and suppleness for wind tunnel elements, and accelerating our pace to trace.”
The SLA 750 Twin two-laser system has been chosen for its print dimension, pace, accuracy, and determination for closing elements with excessive end and mechanical efficiency. The just lately launched PSLA 270, described in a latest situation of TCT because the ‘better of each worlds’ due to a mix of the pace and supplies flexibility of 3D Methods Determine 4 expertise with the standard of SLA, is a excessive pace, projector-based mid-sized SLA system. Sauber is the primary Method 1 group to include the expertise.
Talking about 3D Methods partnership with Sauber, Elvis Perez, SVP, international ISG gross sales, 3D Methods stated, “3D Methods has a long-standing partnership with Sauber spanning almost twenty years, and our relationship in addition to our expertise portfolio have developed over this time. I’m trying ahead to persevering with our journey with the Sauber group to push the boundaries of what’s doable in motorsports by way of the facility of additive manufacturing.”
Sauber is already an avid person of 3D printing, together with polymer and steel methods from 3D Methods, EOS and Additive Industries, and auxiliary methods from Rosler’s AM Options. 3D Methods’ applied sciences are additionally getting used extensively within the motorsport and automotive sectors with groups like BWT Alpine F1 Staff and Stewart Haas Racing utilizing it to construct elements for wind tunnel testing and end-use elements.
