In advance of its physical launch event in May 2021, Wayland Additive announced the first sale of its Calibur3 metal AM system to Exergy Solutions Inc., Calgary, Canada.
Since its virtual launch event in March, Wayland garnered interest in the Calibur3 machine from across a wide cross-section of industry. Peter Hansford, director of business development at Wayland Additive, said, “We are extremely pleased with the response to the launch of our Calibur3 machine, and to be able to announce our first sale to Exergy is very exciting. We are in advanced discussions with a number of companies interested in our ground-breaking metal AM process, all of which recognize that NeuBeamTM affords them access to numerous production alternatives. Most importantly, the charging issues that make electron beam (EBM) processes so unstable have been fully neutralized with NeuBeamTM.”
Traditional workarounds for the eBeam process have been developed by the AM industry, but these lead to downstream complexities. The use of very high processing temperatures across the entire build plate creates a part within a semi-sintered cake, and this makes part removal and post processing difficult, time consuming, and expensive. These compromises also limit the materials that can be used, the geometrical forms that can be produced, and ultimately the applications that can benefit from the eBeam process.
NeubeamTM is material agnostic, can produce complex geometries that are impossible on other eBeam systems, and is typically 30-40 percent faster by removing the need to maintain and sinter the cake.
Exergy Solutions is an engineering consultancy offering end-to-end, fit-for-purpose lab-scale and pilot-scale equipment for research and innovation. The company has been operating in Calgary since 2013 and opened its X-Lab in 2019, offering state-of-the-art industrial additive manufacturing and post-processing solutions, as well as a wireless augmented and virtual reality studio. Exergy works with clients in a variety of sectors including demanding, highly regulated industries such as oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and R&D.
Dr. Dave Waldbillig, director of advanced manufacturing at Exergy said, “The investment in Wayland’s technology means that we can present a compelling solution to our customer’s wear challenges. The partnership combines the high wear resistance and toughness of the Vibenite® series of materials from VBN Components, with the larger build volume and speed of the NeuBeamTM process, and Exergy Solution’s application engineering support.”
The Vibenite® series of materials used by Exergy are developed by VBN Components, which has a reputation for creating unique hard and wear-resistant materials for additive manufacturing, thereby allowing customers to create large geometrically-complex parts and components that are impossible to produce using traditional production processes. The Vibenite® series of materials are characterized by the production of components with extreme fatigue resistance thanks to the high cleanliness in Vibenite® materials, supreme wear resistance and hardness, thanks to the high carbide content, and no porosities and full hardness all the way through the component.
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