Sciaky Inc., a Chicago-based company that manufacturers metal 3D printers, has joined the Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT), an industry-academia consortium, which will allow the company to further its development of additive manufacturing (AM).
ADAPT, which is based in Colorado, will also help expand SciakyÂ’s applications of its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing systems to manufacturing sectors such as the aerospace industry.
Sciaky has specialized in the metal industry providing welding, and EBAM systems since 2009.
The EBAM machines use the direct energy deposition (DED) to form an object layer by layer. In DED, a metallic wire feedstock is melted through a focused laser beam. The EBAM uses a beam of electrons instead of a laser to melt the feedstock and create a near-net shape in high-grade metals such as titanium alloys, Inconel 718 and 625, and stainless steels in the 300 series.
Aerospace companies such as FAMAero and Airbus are already using SciakyÂ’s four EBAM systems; EBAM 300, 200, 150, and 110.
Sciaky will contribute to ADAPT by developing knowledge of how the process variables affect the microstructural properties of the metal parts in AM.
Image courtesy of Sciaky Inc.