CONIFY and Intech Additive Solutions, together with IRES, have established a framework of collaboration towards research and development activities over the past year. This has now come to reality, with a joint exhibition at the recent Formnext-2021 event in Frankfurt!
“New opportunities concerning metal powder engineering, degradation, reusability, and Additive Manufacturing arise with the iFusion SF1 metal printer. We look forward to reaching our goals set, with this strategic alliance of IRES, CONIFY, Intech Additive Solutions, and DMG Mori, at the international level”, said Dr. Elias P. Koumoulos, CEO – IRES.
“By identifying powder characteristics playing a decisive role to the final part quality through our unique material digitisation process, Conify enables the development of individual material-process parameters pairs for high-density, defect-free additively manufactured parts. However, the major challenge lies in establishing and qualifying the print process parameters as it is an iterative process that can take several weeks to months. Intech’s AMOptoMet, in turn, gives users a reliable tool to successfully calculate print parameters and predict print properties with a simulated iterative approach. This reduces the development time to hours/days”, said Dr. Evangelia Caraxis, Managing Director – CONIFY.
Purchase of the iFusion SF1, Intech’s LPBF Metal 3D Printer, complements the vision of transforming innovative ideas into products. With build dimensions of dia. 150 mm x 180 mm ht. and a powerful 500W Laser, the iFusion SF1 is primarily geared towards faster material verification for PBF (laser parameter development/process window), new alloy parameter development, and prototyping of small to mid-size components.
“We are pleased that IRES and Conify, an organization leading the way in powder qualification and establishing AM process flow, have found its ideal partner in Intech in the implementation of AM technology. The cost-effective iFusion SF1 is an ideal solution for Conify as the powerful 500W Laser will allow them to experiment with a wide range of exotic alloys. The system can also print with as low as 7-10 Kgs of powder, which is ideal for a research environment, especially when combined with AMOptoMet. We are confident that this partnership will not only immensely benefit all alliance organizations, but also the AM industry at large from the new materials that will be qualified for LPBF.”, said Mr. Pradeep Nair, Vice President, Sales – Intech Additive Solutions.
