Material-efficient Cu wire-based 3D printing technology

Area Acceleration (D2) Segment Upscaling (D2.2) Duration 2019/01/01-2021/12/31

Inauguration Conference „New solutions, progress and challenges in the industry of non-ferrous metals processing” 12 kwietnia 2019

Inauguration Conference „New solutions, progress and challenges in the industry of non-ferrous metals processing”Inauguration Conference „New solutions, progress and challenges in the industry of non-ferrous metals processing”Inauguration Conference „New solutions, progress and challenges in the industry of non-ferrous metals processing”Inauguration Conference „New solutions, progress and challenges in the industry of non-ferrous metals processing”

Date: 20_22 March, 2019
Place: Kraków, Poland

The meeting started a series of conferences titled ‘Directions of development and sustainable reindustrialisation of the Polish economy’ organised by a consortium of scientific units including: The Faculty of Non-Ferrous Metals of AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, The  Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of Polish Academy of Sciences. The conference was a kind of joining forces and possibilities of the Polish scientific and economic communities in the field of non-ferrous metals, and governmental institutions working for the country’s economy.

The aim of the conference was the presentation of work and discussion on the string of the research process from the basic phase (TRL1) to the implementation phase (TRL9). The result should be multiplication of the pace of research and implementation of technologies of the most economically and socially important applications of non-ferrous metals.

Moreover, the project 3DMPWire run by the Metal Processing Department as part of the EIT RawMaterials, and the subject of 3DMetal Printing technology were promoted during this conference. This was done, among others, by a presentation ‘The application of incremental technologies in various branches of industry.’ by W. Burian PhD, a representative of the Project Leader, and in a poster session.

A detailed conference plan can be found under the following link.

Project Partners

Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals

  • Development of the Cu-based alloys
  • Development of production technology of feedstock materials for WAAM
  • Wire arc additive manufacturing at laboratory scale
  • Materials investigations

Ghent University

  • Corrosion-fatigue investigations
  • Tests of the prototypes in seawater environment
  • Educational activities

Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

  • Material investigations
  • Mechanical proporties

Gefertec GmbH

  • Development of the production process parameters by means of 3DMP technology
  • Implementation of the results of the project (end user)
  • Manufacturing of the new products

Tecnalia Research and Innovation

  • Erosion tests
  • Non-destructive tests

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