Do none of the commercially available materials have the exact properties you are looking for? Then it’s time to design advanced materials that do. Materials innovation in additive manufacturing (AM) requires a thorough understanding of the process and its parameters, on top of the know-how to build a proof of concept. And that is exactly the service we offer.
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Examples abound of possible material improvements:
- Aluminium alloys for aeronautics that are not yet processable with AM technologies
- Polymers with adequate elongation, but with a suboptimal resistance to hydrolysis
- Bio-compatible polymers with controlled resorption times in the medical industry
Sirris helps you achieve such improvements through AM process and materials development. Whether the material feedstock is a powder, filament or a viscous liquid, our experts know what to do.
Assistance for various AM technologies and quantities
Even if your application requires only a small quantity, we help you develop new materials..
Our AM technologies:
- Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (E-BPF)
- Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF)
- Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
- Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM)
- Digital Light Processing (DLP)
- Masked Stereolithography Apparatus (MLSA)
- Syringe Robot Casting (SRC)
The majority of Sirris’s additive manufacturing equipment can be fully parametrised, and multiple slicer software packages are available.
A 7-fold service: pick and choose
Feedstock
Our experts make a difference in optimising your feedstock.
Filament
WIth the mini-extruder we transform your powder or pellet polymers (charged or not) into a filament with a specific diameter (max. 4 mm).
Material enhancement
We enhance the properties and/or improve the “printability” of the material through better formulation.
Testing
Tests can be performed such as powder characterisation, thermal analysis and mechanical behaviour, on feedstock or end-product.
Proof of concept
Testresults can be assesed in the AM machine, by building a proof of concept to validate the material for your application.
Quality control
We perform quality control, such as dimensional accuracy, mechanical strength, material quality and material aging.
Nabewerking
A post-treatment is carried out, such as polishing/tribo-finition, thermal treatment, impregnation, coating and CNC.
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Interested in new materials for additive manufacturing?
Guido Heunen and his colleagues from our additive manufacturing team will show you the way!