Colibrium Additive has introduced the business availability of its M Line 4 x 1 kW laser powder mattress fusion system designed for non-reactive supplies. The system targets additive manufacturing customers in aerospace and protection sectors, specializing in price effectivity and productiveness enhancements for extremely regulated components.

The brand new system options 4 1kW lasers that present 2.5 instances better laser energy in comparison with the prevailing M Line 4 x 400W system. It presents a construct quantity of 500 x 500 x 400 mm and was introduced through the Formnext commerce present. “The M Line 4 x 1kW system permits producers to speed up productiveness with out sacrificing high quality,” mentioned Philipp Schumann, product supervisor – M Line at Colibrium Additive.
The system incorporates modular structure with separated Laser Processing System (LPS) and Materials Dealing with Station (MHS) items. This design permits pre- and post-printing operations to run in parallel, which the corporate says delivers further time and price financial savings. The machine can mix high-quality printing for particular element areas with high-productivity printing in much less demanding sections of the identical half.
Presently, the system helps printing in CoCr and Ni718 supplies, with further materials parameters beneath growth. Parameters from present M Line 4 x 400W techniques stay appropriate with the brand new machine. Earlier this month, Colibrium delivered 4 M2 metallic 3D printers to Protolabs’ Raleigh, North Carolina facility, which options practically 40 DMLS printers with month-to-month manufacturing capability exceeding 8,000 components.
