努布鲁, an industry leader in high power and high brightness industrial blue lasers, and Essentium Inc., a worldwide leader in industrial additive manufacturing (AM), announced a partnership to develop and manufacture a blue laser-based metal AM platform. The new Essentium printer will enable manufacturers to create production-grade metal parts with high resolution and fast throughput.
Under the multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement, Essentium may integrate NUBURU’s proprietary blue laser technology with its High Speed Extrusion (HSETM) 3D Printing technology for product development in the first phase, and manufacturing in the second phase. The new AM platform is designed to deliver breakthrough throughput for extremely high part quality and broad-scale use in major industrial markets, including automotive, aerospace, and defense.
As a part of the contract, NUBURU will also license its core 3D printing application patents, based on NUBURU’s foundational patent, “Methods and systems for welding copper using blue laser” US10,940,562B2 and JP2019562226A.
努布鲁’s blue laser is well suited for materials processing applications within AM. Critical materials such as copper, stainless steel, and aluminum reflect much of the infrared wavelengths transmitted by traditional industrial lasers, which leads to lower print speed and quality. NUBURU’s blue laser technology enables printing with 10x the build speed and the ability to print with a very high metal density without any post processes.
“我们很高兴与Essentium团队紧密合作，并将现有技术的力量结合在一起，以开发和制造一个新的增材制造业平台，” Nuburu的联合创始人兼总裁Mark Zediker Ph.D.说。。“我们的高功率，高亮度蓝色激光技术以及我们的3D打印IP将帮助Essentium构建具有广泛应用的强大金属3D打印机。”
Essentium的HSE 3D打印平台已经改变了传统的制造业，为客户提供了工业规模的增材制造解决方案，使他们能够快速，成本效益地以尺度和成本范围的规模生产生产的零件。迄今为止，这项技术得到了八项专利的支持，可提供节能沉积，消除孔隙率和最小化构建过程中的经纱。新平台将产生与铸件和疑问相媲美的零件，并需要最少的后处理。
“努布鲁（Nuburu）是蓝色激光技术的领导者，他们的专业知识将有助于在我们的新平台内获得速度和力量的提高，” Essentium首席发展官兼联合创始人Elisa Teipel博士说。“我们期待与他们的团队合作并利用他们的技术，使Essentium能够将新的金属3D打印平台商业化。”
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