Supplies Options – a Siemens Power Enterprise has introduced it has put in two further EOS metallic 3D printers at its UK facility this week.
The pair of EOS M 400-4 methods brings the corporate’s whole world fleet of EOS M 400-4 methods to 29 machines throughout its 5 manufacturing websites. The direct metallic laser sintering methods every characteristic a 400 x 400 x 400 mm construct quantity and 4 lasers.
Andy Brooker, Head of UK Gross sales (Additive Manufacturing) for the corporate instructed TCT: “With our ongoing dedication to industrialising additive manufacturing, we have now considerably expanded our capability by including two M 400-4 machines from EOS. Whereas these new machines are noteworthy, probably the most substantial funding has been in our staff, with 20 new members becoming a member of us over the previous six months.
“This enlargement is pushed by the elevated demand for manufacturing from each our inside and exterior clients, a development that’s anticipated to proceed into 2026.”
Supplies Options, which is a completely owned subsidiary of Siemens Power, has been working in metallic AM for practically twenty years and operates a number of metallic AM methods from EOS, Renishaw and Nikon SLM Options – the corporate lately introduced the addition of the latter’s large-format 12-laser NXG XII 600. Its Worcester, UK facility, which underwent a £27 million funding again in 2019, incorporates a full end-to-end metallic AM workflow and specialises in producing serial elements for purposes in energy era, aerospace, automotive and course of and tooling sectors. Final yr, Siemens Power’s produced round 30,000 elements globally throughout its 5 websites – Supplies Options was accountable for the supply of 20,000 of them. In the present day, the corporate has certified greater than 250 half numbers for manufacturing. The corporate additionally lately introduced the signing of a collaboration settlement with Rolls-Royce to develop and provide serial manufacturing 3D printed purposes for its Civil Aerospace enterprise.
Observe: A earlier version of this story stated Siemens Power had produced 15,000 manufacturing parts throughout its websites yearly. For readability, these figures have been up to date to specify the variety of particular person elements produced and certified half numbers.
