Norsk Titanium says that it has demonstrated its rapid plasma deposition (RPD) additive manufacturing (AM) process to aerospace participants of the European Space Agency (ESA) €20 million AMAZE initiative.
These include delegates from Airbus, Bombardier, Thales and the ESA.
The goal of AMAZE is to rapidly produce large defect-free, additively-manufactured components, ideally with close to zero waste, for use in the European high-tech industries, such as aeronautics, space, nuclear fusion, automotive, and tooling. The project, launched in 2013 by David Jarvis of the ESA, is supported by 9 European countries and 28 active partners, including 19 industrial companies, 8 universities and 1 intergovernmental agency.
The AMAZE companies watched a live demonstration of Norsk Titanium’s RPD machine produce a structural titanium spar for a commercial aircraft manufacturer. The aircraft part was produced in a fraction of the time and cost of the forging process.
This story is reprinted from material from Norsk Titanium, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.
