Sandia National Laboratories installs second Lithoz Additive Manufacturing machine
Lithoz GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria, has installed a second industrial CeraFab Additive Manufacturing machine at Sandia National Laboratories facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. As a direct result of Lithoz’s technology, the company states that Sandia can manufacture parts with previously unachievable geometries at a far more rapid rate, producing components, which normally take months, within a week and at a tenth of the cost when compared to conventional production processes.
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Sandia plans to increase research and development into additively manufactured ceramics and scale up production efforts of optimised AM ceramic subcomponents using multiple Lithoz AM machines and ceramic materials.
The CeraFab S65, as Lithoz’s industrial-level AM machine, looks to enable the serial Additive Manufacturing of highly complex ceramic parts. Due to the high degree of automation enabled by Lithoz’s Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) process, Sandia has reduced costs to just one-tenth of that of conventional methods.
“By combining LCM technology with the attractive material properties of AM ceramic, Sandia have already opened the door to printing ceramic shapes and parts previously impossible to produce,” said Shawn Allan, Vice President of Lithoz America. “We look forward to seeing their future achievements with the greater capacity of a second Lithoz printer!”
