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Beamit signs letter of intent to purchase 15 machines from SLM Solutions

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BEAMIT, Italy’s largest additive manufacturing service bureau, expands its additive manufacturing activities and continues to rely on proven SLM® multi-laser technology. The Italian service provider signed a letter of intent to purchase 15 Selective Laser Melting machines from SLM Solutions within the next three years. The commitment emphasizes SLM Solutions as the preferred supplier for BEAMIT`s machines and shows the continues adoption of additive manufacturing technology.

BEAMIT as a leader in AM, selected SLM® technology again to order 15 machines of all types of including SLM®280, SLM®500 and SLM®800. BEAMIT values the multi-laser technology that leads to higher productivity as well as the closed-loop powder handling for reliable, efficient and safe production of dense parts.

“Through the replacement of single laser products with SLM Solutions` multi-laser technology we are able to increase our productivity and provide competitive pricing to our customers, says Mauro Antolotti, Chairman and Founder of BEAMIT. He further emphasizes: “By partnering with SLM Solutions, we can meet our customer`s requirements to build high quality parts at increased productivity and expand our facilities.” The commitment is in line with the expansion of BEAMIT´s plant, which is then more than twice the size of the previous space.

Meddah Hadjar, CEO of SLM Solutions, says: “We are very pleased to deepen our cooperation with BEAMIT and to be a long-term partner in its additive growth. It shows the trust and the confidence in our machines and in our multi-laser technology. We are looking forward to a successful future and collaboration not only on these products but also for future NextGen products and technology developments.”

BEAMIT and SLM Solutions share a long-term partnership, jointly working on high-speed, top-quality parameters targeting the specific needs of the customers.

Column number 74 – 2020

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Now that we have ceased to feel like the characters of an Hollywood’s production, we must deal with the need to foresee the moment in which economy will restart and we will begin our path to normality. What is clear is that the roadmap to normality will not be easy and immediate, we shall proceed step by step, restarting economy per grades. What is clear is that the roadmap to normality will not be easy and immediate, we shall proceed step by step, restarting economy in grades. It is still not possible, at this moment, to understand if the restart will be made by politics authorities by production chains, but surely it will take some months. It is easy to predict that it will take place not before the autumn, with some differences from country to country, according to the moment of the pandemic peak. Whatever are our thoughts and our aims today, it is sure that they will not be the same tomorrow, as conditions change so quickly more than we can manage to make programs for the short and medium terms. Some optimistic speakers predict a wide resumption after the lockdown, since consumption will resume worldwide as the people returns spending money and enjoying life after the long period of isolation and fear. From this point of view must be intended as very inspired the choice of holding Tube 2020 in December: it could be the right moment to take advantage of the will to restart of companies and insiders. What we know for sure is that the decision to postpone the exhibition in late February was very timely and appropriate, and cou- rageous, especially because it was assumed in a moment in which pandemic was not so clearly recognized at all levels and here in Italy we all were worried more to be excluded from all international events than they were delayed or cancelled. The recommendations issued by Cecimo to National and European decision ma- kers to avoid dissolvement of European Industrial potential are clear and strong:tax relief, credits, extraordinary nancial aids, payment facilitation framework, in- frastructures, reprogramming of structural funds. The question is if these counter- measures, when applied, can be enough. The sensation is that the only way to get out of this incoming world economic crisis is completely think over the industrial and economic structure of our times: without a complete palingenesis of our eco- nomic framework it is hard to think how our companies can come out from the global lockdown. It is not the moment to think on our own, but to create relations that can aid everyone to restart: companies, governments and people must meetthe idea that we must preserve the markets, and preserving the markets means rstof all preserve employment that means in turn preserve companies, productive ca- pabilities and commerce. No other way out than imagine a year or two of coope- ration between Countries and companies worldwide in a sort of new globalization aimed at common protection.

New date for wire and Tube Düsseldorf: 7 to 11 December 2020

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The world’s leading international trade fairs for the wire, cable, tube and pipe industry, wire and Tube, will take place from 7 to 11 December 2020 at Düsseldorf Fairgrounds.

This is Messe Düsseldorf’s timely response to the postponement of the industry highlights announced at the end of February. It was agreed in consultation with all partners involved in order to counteract the increasingly dynamic developments regarding the possible spread of the coronvirus.

“It is very important for us to inform you of this new date as soon as possible in order to ensure planning security for the entire industry and its partners,” says Wolfram N. Diener, Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, and adds: “Our customers and partners can trust us to act calmly and responsibly even in difficult situations.”

Existing contracts with Messe Düsseldorf remain valid for the new date, visitor tickets already purchased remain valid as well. 2,600 exhibitors in 15 halls are expected to present their latest machinery and equipment for wire and tube production, processing and finishing, end products, products and services.

The Düsseldorf hotel industry is also sending out an important signal through its umbrella organisation DEHOGA (Trade Association for the Hospitality Industry): “We appeal to our members and the entire industry to be flexible when it comes to rebooking by exhibitors and visitors. The Düsseldorf trade fairs such as wire and Tube play an enormously important role for the city, the hotel industry and the catering trade. It would be counterproductive not to show goodwill in this situation,” as both DEHOGA-Representatives Giuseppe Saitta (Chairman Düsseldorf/District Group Rhein-Kreis Neuss) and Rolf D. Steinert (Düsseldorf/Rhein-Kreis Neuss Hotels and Tourism Group) emphasize.

Current information can be found in the Internet portals at: www.wire.de and www.Tube.de.

European industries unite to call for an ambitious EU industrial strategy

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Industry4Europe, a coalition of 149 sector Associations representing the diversity of the EU’s industrial base, published its new Joint Paper ‘A long-term strategy for Europe’s industrial future: from words to action’. Through cross-sectoral recommendations, the Industry4Europe coalition contributes to the future EU industrial strategy announced by European Commission President-Elect Ursula von der Leyen.

The Joint Paper presents concrete industrial policy proposals in seven priority fields; business-friendly policy environment, sustainability at business core, upgraded skills and training, enhanced research and innovation, investment and improved access to finance, reinforcement of the European Single Market and strengthened trade and international market access.

The 149 industry organisations behind Industry4Europe stand united in their repeated calls for an ambitious and long-term EU industrial strategy that must help Europe remain a hub for a leading, smart, innovative and sustainable industry, that provides quality jobs and benefits all Europeans and future generations.

“With its skilled workforce and its global reputation for quality and sustainability, our industry is vital for Europe and its prosperity”, said Philippe Citroën, Coordinator of the Industry4Europe Coalition. “The European Union needs an ambitious industrial strategy now to compete with other global regions that have already put industry at the very top of their political agenda. It is essential for a horizonal, coherent and focused industrial policy to support the backbone of the European economy and which protects citizens and the global environment”.

European Commission President-Elect von der Leyen has said clearly in her Political Guidelines for the upcoming mandate that she would, “put forward my plan for a future-ready economy, our new industrial strategy”. The Industry4Europe coalition welcomes this ambition and hopes that its explicit policy recommendations will find a central place in any comprehensive long-term industrial strategy that comes out of the EU institutions.

The Industry4Europe coalition therefore looks forward to working with all policymakers – notably the designated Executive Vice-Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager and Commissioner Thierry Breton – to discuss and implement such an ambitious and much-needed EU industrial strategy.

As regards the response of the Politics, it comes in part from the position taken by MEP Massimiliano Salini, a member of DG Industry and Tourism in the last legislature and rapporteur of the ESA financing law, the European Space Agency: “The threat to European entrepreneurship today is made up of two major factors: production prices in China, with many companies giving in to the sirens of delocalization, and unfair competition that our companies are suffering from prices. This second phenomenon is easier to understand and perhaps to counteract. What is truly tragic is that one would expect a reaction from politics. That anyone looking for the low price is normal, but politics must intervene. If a producer needs to buy steel and Turkish steel it costs 340 while that of a European producer costs 500, they can tell me as long as they want I have to give priority to Made in Italy, but if I need to save, in the end I will always choose what is cheaper, even if foreigner. If the policy wants to help the Made in Europe or the Made in Italy must make sure that the buyer can afford Italian steel. In Germany, for example, there are offsets on energy costs (steel production is decidedly energy-intensive). But it is clear that certain choices must be made at the community level: because in some countries compensations are active and in others not?”.

Salini then draws up a picture of protection and duties: “All markets protect themselves while in Italy there is no protective reaction. We must protect ourselves from China where market rules are not respected: wrong prices, state intervention where it must not be there. As for the United States, however, the thing is different: US duties are against Europe, which is absurd. It is an internal war against the West against those who respect the rules of the market. We did not deserve it, especially in Italy, because here people work and we are first in Europe for sustainability. We must react. It must be understood that without businesses the country dies. 80% of jobs in Europe are in SMEs “.

As for Italy, the urgency is urgent, according to Salini: “A country that has to recover 23 billion for the maneuver and decides to take them on business is not a country that supports them. I frequent the business world, especially in Italy. This means that, especially in Italy, I see things that are not seen around the world. The concentration of quality and innovation that is seen in Italy is exceptional. But we have one of the most anti-company states that exist, the school-enterprise correlation does not work in comparison, for example with Germany, and the training of technicians is missing. Italy invests 19% of GDP in pensions and 3% in education: it is an unacceptable imbalance for a country that wants to enhance its innovative and productive capacity. The school-work alternation must be built well, because what makes the difference is that the student lives in direct contact with the entrepreneur’s testimony of life and work “.

Formnext 2019: Prima Additive presents a new generation of solutions for metal additive manufacturing

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Prima Additive, the Prima Industrie division dedicated to Metal Additive Manufacturing systems, is exhibiting for the first time at Formnext, the leading exhibition dedicated to additive manufacturing, held in Frankfurt from 19 to 22 November (Hall 11, Stand C28).

The slogan “Add Something New”, selected by Prima Additive for this exhibition, is an invitation to customers to unleash the potential of Additive Manufacturing solutions for their business. Leveraging on more than 40 years’ experience in 3D and 2D laser processing machinery, today the Prima Industrie group is also a competent partner for the 3D metal printing sector. Prima Additive products are designed to allow customers to exploit the competitive advantages of AM, thanks to their high productivity, first-rate process reliability, outstanding quality of finished parts, and excellent performance-price ratio.

Launched in October during the Innovation Days at the new Prima Industrie Advanced Laser Center in Collegno (Turin), the Print Genius 250 will be showcased for the first time at an exhibition. The PBF machine features a build volume of 262x262x350 mm and is suitable for the fabrication of medium-sized components. The Print Genius 250 is the ideal solution for high productivity with metal printing applications, reducing production times through its dual single-mode 500W laser, combined with intelligent software for fast part orientation and the definition of machine parameters.

 

Optimized gas flow, which minimizes gas consumption, and the capability to perform a complete material change in less than 2 hours are other strengths of this innovative machine. The Print Genius 250 is equipped with a 2-line filter unit for the recirculation of the gas inside the work area, which maintains a high degree of machine cleanliness and minimizes the replacement of parts subject to wear. The new HMI monitors in real-time the building environment, the building plate, the dispenser and the recoater, generating reports with all of the key printing parameters.

 

The Print Genius 250 is suitable for processing of a wide range of materials including high strength steel, stainless steel, maraging steel, high-temperature nickel-based alloys (e.g. Inconel), aluminium and copper alloys, cobalt-chromium, and titanium.

 

Also displayed for the first time at a trade show, the LASERDYNE® 430 DED is a compact and accurate laser metal deposition platform with a working volume of 585x400x500 mm and a high build rate (max 40-50 cm3/h – typical 20 cm3/h), and excellent end-part properties, suitable for 3D fabrication, reworking and repairing.

 

The LASERDYNE® 430 DED is equipped with the Advanced Head, an innovative multi-purpose DED laser head with a modular design that can be mounted in different configurations to easily adapt to multiple laser processes. Some of the strengths of the new head are fusion metal pool monitoring, pressurized optical path that avoids dust infiltration and a water-cooled nozzle for continuous deposition, which reduces the risk of powder adhesion during the process. The additive nozzle itself is manufactured using additive manufacturing processes. The head also offers easy maintenance and fast alignment of the powder to the laser spot.

 

The Advanced Head can be mounted on all Prima Industrie Laser Metal Deposition products, and is also available as part of Prima Additive’s Laser Metal Deposition Kit, which includes the head, a high-efficiency laser source, a flexible powder feeder and additive CAM software for off-line programming. The kit can be integrated into nearly any machinery and robotic system.

 

The flexibility of the LASERDYNE® 430 DED can be further increased through the addition of an optional roto-tilting table, which adds two more axes for more complex applications.

 

The LASERDYNE® 430 is also a sustainable manufacturing solution, thanks to its Prima Electro high efficiency, low maintenance laser source which is available from 1 to 6 kW. Furthermore, the typical applications of this machine – material and process characterization / optimization, addition of internal and external features, coating deposition and repair or build up activities on existing parts – are in line with the Circular Economy business model, which aims to maintain the value of products and materials for as long as possible, transforming resources at the end of their life cycle into new input in the value creation process.

 

The new Convergent CS450 laser source, developed by Prima Electro, will be also exhibited on the Prima Additive stand. This is a highly efficient and compact fiber laser for Additive Manufacturing, developed with the laser technologies expertise of the Prima Industrie Group.  The main benefits of this laser source are a high beam quality, high efficiency (up to 30% wall-plug efficiency), simple, compact, robust and maintenance free design, with long term power stability.

Besides the additive manufacturing systems, Prima Additive provides a full range of services, covering the entire life cycle of the system and technology. This contributes to maximising the added-value benefits and profit for our customers.

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