Freemelt-Americas has entered into a strategic agreement with HAMR Industries to establish its first application centre in North America. The goal is to support the commercialisation of the eMELT industrial E-PBF machine.
HAMR Industries, specialising in advanced materials and manufacturing techniques for extreme environment applications, will house the Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (E-PBF) application centre at its facility in Neighborhood 91 at Pittsburgh International Airport. Neighborhood 91 is the world’s first end-to-end additive manufacturing campus that brings together the entire AM supply chain.
Darin Everett, Regional President America at Freemelt, emphasises the importance of the collaboration: ‘The combined resources will enable us to meet the growing demand for projects, feasibility studies and technical support in material process and application development.’
The application centre will be equipped with a Freemelt ONE system. Dr Michael P. Schmitt, CEO of HAMR Industries, sees this as a unique opportunity: ‘We can jointly develop this technology for critical defence, energy and industrial applications using materials such as tungsten, high entropy refractory alloys and OFHC copper.’
The collaboration aims to expand domestic E-PBF production capacity with the eMELT system. At the same time, it demonstrates the value of the Neighbourhood 91 concept, which attracts new technologies and fosters an environment of growth through the regional concentration of academic knowledge and industrial expertise.
For Freemelt, the partnership offers the opportunity to better serve the demand of industrial and government customers and to develop new business opportunities in the defence and energy sectors. HAMR Industries will benefit from the E-PBF technology for the development of components for extreme environments.
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