Wayland Additive has bought one among its Calibur3 steel printers to Fraunhofer IPK (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Techniques and Design Expertise).
Confirming the sale at Formnext this week, the UK-based additive manufacturing firm says the German analysis and growth organisation is ‘ideally positioned’ to undertake the distinctive benefits of its NeuBeam expertise, and can use it to give attention to creating new steel AM functions.
Based on an announcement from Wayland, the choice to put money into 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 idea is that NeuBeam will open up alternatives for processing supplies equivalent to titanium aluminides and CM247, and remove 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 mentioned Wayland’s eBeam expertise is “precisely what we have to meet immediately’s challenges in electron beam melting” and can permit the instate to course of new supplies and open up new functions.
Will Richardson, CEO at Wayland commented, “This announcement of one more sale of a Calibur3 system is testomony to the persevering with development of the steel AM sector, and the demand for manufacturing techniques for superior supplies. We’re wanting ahead to working with Fraunhofer IPK shifting ahead and accelerating much more manufacturing functions.”
Earlier this yr Wayland secured one other 4.2 million GBP in funding to allow the expansion of its world buyer base and enhance in-house manufacturing capability of its steel AM techniques, which have already been adopted by the likes of EWI and the Royal Air Pressure (RAF).