Kingsbury to sell new additive manufacturing machine range

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SLM Solutions, a German manufacturer of powder bed metal additive manufacturing (AM) machines, has appointed Kingsbury, to sell its products and services in the British and Irish markets.

Headquartered in Lübeck and employing in excess of 400 staff, SLM Solutions is one of the inventors of selective laser melting for 3D printing components layer by layer from metal powder.

All SLM machine models produce parts accurately and efficiently from aluminium, titanium, nickel, cobalt, iron and copper alloys. Positioning the machines among the most advanced on the market are exclusive features such as bi-directional recoating, multi-laser overlap strategy and laminar gas flow.

Furthermore, the open architecture allows parameters to be modified without additional cost, so a user is able to customise the process to suit specific applications and to develop completely new alloys. Both abilities enable customers to differentiate themselves from competitors that use standard materials and parameter sets.

Until recently, machines ranged from a single-laser model with a build chamber of 125mm cube up to a quad laser version offering a 500 x 280 x 850mm build envelope. However, a major product launch in November extended the portfolio to include a 600mm cube machine with up to 12 lasers.

The NXG XII 600 is up to 20 times faster than a standard single-laser machine and is equipped with innovative technical features such as a zoom function to achieve high productivity and at the same time high surface finish. It is designed to be used for high-volume production as well as for printing large parts and opens up many new applications.

Kingsbury's managing director Richard Kingsbury commented: "We see the technology, with the freedom of design that it brings to production, becoming increasingly important as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, as it will enable manufacturing industry to innovate and become more competitive."

David Wilckens regional sales manager of SLM Solutions added: "The choice of Kingsbury to sell and service our systems was down to their already representing many well-known German machine tool manufacturers of high-value capital equipment, all of which see themselves as a technology leader, as we do.

"The match is made even better by the agent already being committed to AM technology and having an established department, with business development and applications engineering already in place.

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