Laser metallic additive manufacturing know-how producer Meltio, which launched out there at Formnext 2019 with its directed power deposition know-how, not too long ago introduced new gross sales companions in North America and the Benelux area, with extra to return. The corporate’s newest gross sales accomplice is Máquinas e Soluções, which is able to distribute and assist Meltio’s metallic AM options within the Brazilian market.

A part of the worldwide MOLGROUP based within the early 1900s, Máquinas e Soluções opened its doorways in 2018 and provides high quality industrial gear and providers for trade in Brazil, together with lathes, automation, 3D printers, turnkey initiatives, machining facilities, Trade 4.0 options, and extra. As Meltio’s official gross sales accomplice in Brazil, the corporate will work to construct up a powerful ecosystem for the know-how by partnering with and establishing enterprise alternatives alongside trade, know-how facilities, tooling machine firms, academia, and robotic integrators. Meltio’s metallic AM answer is constructed across the market’s cleanest, most secure, and most inexpensive metallic feedstock—welding wire—which permits the corporate to work on industrial purposes.

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Talking of Meltio’s know-how, its Brazilian gross sales accomplice isn’t the corporate’s solely partnership information. Meltio additionally introduced that know-how startup Ziknes, which focuses on in software program for robotic 3D printing, is the primary official integrator of its Meltio Engine for metallic additive manufacturing with robotic arms in Portugal and Spain. Meltio’s unique gross sales accomplice Sicnova, which distributes its know-how within the Iberian Peninsula, helped make this settlement a actuality.

“We’re thrilled to be working with Ziknes and Sicnova, because the collaboration between gross sales and integration companions inside the Meltio ecosystem is important to fast-track know-how adoption in a territory,” stated Gerard García, Meltio’s Head of Gross sales and Advertising. “Along with Ziknes, we are actually in a position to cater to the wants of the ever-growing Spanish and Portuguese robotic metallic additive manufacturing market.”

The Meltio Engine is a multi-laser deposition head that may course of wire or powder metallic feedstock for DED 3D printing, and will be built-in into current CNC methods and robotic arms. Ziknes has loads of expertise with higher-end know-how purposes, having labored previously with firms like Jaguar and Tesla, and since deciding to focus solely on metallic robotic 3D printing purposes, it’s now working with Meltio as a part of Sicnova’s industrial ecosystem.

“Ziknes performs a key position in our ecosystem, as an official Meltio Engine integrator for robotic methods. At Sicnova we firmly consider within the potential of this know-how for firms within the industrial sector that wish to additional their manufacturing processes, with a particular concentrate on course of automation,” defined Agustín García, Sicnova Gross sales Supervisor. “That’s the reason we wished to depend on Ziknes, a younger firm with nice expertise and know-how in this sort of purposes, in order that our prospects have all of the services and our assure to implement this cutting-edge know-how.”

Meltio says that its Engine Robotic Integration “breaks the normal manufacturing boundaries related to metallic 3D printing,” which is why Ziknes needs to make use of the answer to shake issues up on this space by introducing metallic AM capabilities to extra purposes and industries. The multi-metal know-how stacks weld beads exactly on prime of one another as soon as they’re in a laser-generated meltpool, and since the construct envelope is proscribed solely by the scale of the movement system, this robotic arm answer makes it doable to attain large-scale metallic 3D printing. The method makes use of commodity welding wire, which, as talked about beforehand, isn’t solely the most secure and cleanest metallic feedstock, but additionally the least costly one as nicely.

“Having the ability to enter to the additive trade with nice gamers similar to Sicnova and Meltio was what made us to not hesitate to discovered Ziknes. Along with Meltio’s revolutionary know-how, we wish to introduce our information of automating robotic processes and industrial software program growth, to create metallic elements with laser metallic deposition know-how,” stated Ziknes CEO Nacho León. “Now we have little doubt that becoming a member of the expertise of the three firms will make it simpler to make use of this know-how in any sector.”

Along with massive and sophisticated metallic 3D printing, the Meltio Engine Robotic Integration will also be used for including options to current elements, in addition to cladding and restore.