Knust-Godwin, a Houston-based contract producer targeted on supplying components for functions throughout heavy business, has chosen Continuum Powders because the unique provider of steel additive manufacturing (AM) powders, for a venture involving a “massive oil and fuel buyer.” The client contracted Knust-Godwin to search out strategies for recycling components created from Ni718 (Inconel) that have been nearing the top of their life-cycle.
In response to Continuum, one other Knust-Godwin buyer advisable the corporate look into Continuum Powders, ensuing within the latter’s profitable demonstration of its viability for the duty at-hand by way of a number of check components. Continuum additionally equipped Knust-Godwin with new Inconel powder, which the contract producer used to print components on a Renishaw RenAM500Q.
In a press launch, the CEO of Continuum, Rob Higby, stated, “Continuum is doing issues that no different steel powders firm can at the moment do in terms of full lifecycle administration of consumable steel components. With the unimaginable developments we’ve made in changing worn components into new steel powders, it now not is sensible to easily scrap these components and buy steel powders created from virgin metals.”
Michael Corliss from Knust-Godwin stated, “Continuum Powders consecutively proved to have the very best high quality powders available on the market — equal to or above that of all different producers. Once you mix that stage of high quality with the extent of sustainability they provide and their Powder as a Service providing — it makes them our de facto go-to supplier.”
Continuum Powders has made nice strides in direction of making the steel powders market extra sustainable, asserting earlier this yr that its proprietary Greyhound melt-to-powder (M2P) platform situated on the firm’s Houston headquarters will likely be powered by renewable vitality. Now, given Continuum’s partnership with a neighborhood contract producer in Knust-Godwin, the supplies provider will be capable to make a big contribution in direction of demonstrating precisely how a lot AM can deliver to the desk when it comes to decarbonizing the oil & fuel provide chain.
Whereas it could appear counterintuitive, I believe utilizing AM for oil & fuel components is without doubt one of the finest ways in which the AM business can put a dent in lowering heavy business’s international carbon footprint. When you come to phrases with the truth that oil & fuel isn’t going anyplace — regardless of how a lot the renewables market has grown in recent times — it’s exhausting to disclaim that the availability chain for oil & fuel components is without doubt one of the largest sources of low-hanging fruit for decarbonization initiatives.
The partnership between Continuum and Knust-Godwin has ample potential for life-cycle assessments (LCAs) into the sustainability of AM for the oil & fuel business. Personally, every time the subsequent large spherical of public funds for superior manufacturing efforts begins circulating, I’d like to see the US authorities go all in on supporting LCAs.
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