Wayland Additive has bought one in all its Calibur3 steel printers to Fraunhofer IPK (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Programs and Design Know-how).
Confirming the sale at Formnext this week, the UK-based additive manufacturing firm says the German analysis and improvement organisation is ‘ideally positioned’ to undertake the distinctive benefits of its NeuBeam expertise, and can use it to give attention to growing new steel AM purposes.
In accordance with a press release from Wayland, the choice to spend money on eBeam comes after a lot analysis into laser-based AM applied sciences the place Fraunhofer IPK felt it had exhausted the bodily limits of the expertise. The assumption is that NeuBeam will open up alternatives for processing supplies akin to titanium aluminides and CM247, and get rid of the necessity for well timed post-processing steps sometimes related to powder-based processes.
Tobias Neuwald, Head of the Manufacturing Applied sciences Division at Fraunhofer IPK stated Wayland’s eBeam expertise is “precisely what we have to meet at present’s challenges in electron beam melting” and can permit the instate to course of new supplies and open up new purposes.
Will Richardson, CEO at Wayland commented, “This announcement of yet one more sale of a Calibur3 system is testomony to the persevering with development of the steel AM sector, and the demand for manufacturing methods for superior supplies. We’re wanting ahead to working with Fraunhofer IPK transferring ahead and accelerating much more manufacturing purposes.”
Earlier this yr Wayland secured one other 4.2 million GBP in funding to allow the expansion of its international buyer base and enhance in-house manufacturing capability of its steel AM methods, which have already been adopted by the likes of EWI and the Royal Air Pressure (RAF).
