AM specialist Sintavia, has begun construction on a new 55,000 ft2 manufacturing facility located in Florida, USA. The US$15 million facility is expected to open in late 2018.
The company says that it will be the first facility of its kind to employ ‘Lean manufacturing principles’ for large-scale metal additive manufacturing.
‘Our new facility, when complete, will serve as template for future additive manufacturing facilities around the world,’ said Brian R Neff, Sintavia CEO. ‘We will pioneer, and continuously improve, an optimized flow of work centered around Sintavia’s industry-leading and vertically aligned quality system.’
The new facility is expected to result in 110 new jobs for technicians and support personnel, and to house over US$25 million of manufacturing equipment. This equipment includes metal printers, hot isostatic presses, vacuum furnaces, a metallurgical and mechanical lab, post-processing equipment, and a CT scanner.
This story is reprinted from material from Sintavia, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.
