INNOVATION | 3D PRINTING
Right: The 200-3X and 300-3X Freeformer machines enable Arburg to cover a broad spec- trum in the industrial additive
manufacturing of functional parts from original materials
ß-TCP, can be used to create implant plates intended for direct application in the body to help repair fractures. The polymer composite from Evonik imitates human bone and contains 30% ceramic additives, making the resulting component more stable and adding calcium as a means of promoting bone formation. After a certain time has passed, the implant is then fully absorbed. The Swiss company Samaplast is one example of a customer from the medical technology industry which is already using a Freeformer to process innovative resorbable materials of this type. Arburg says that the Freeformer 200-3X and
300-3X machines can cater to a wide range of industrial additive manufacturing applications. While the Freeformer 200-3X is equipped with two nozzles as standard, the Freeformer 300-3X is able to process three components as a means of producing even complex functional parts in resilient hard/soft combinations with support structures. The APF process operates on the basis of qualified standard granulates, which are the same as those used for injection moulding. Users have the option of processing their own original materials and optimising droplet size as well as
process control with the open Freeformer system. Alternatively, they can access Arburg’s material database of reference materials. The numerous qualified standard granulates documented there include ABS (Terluran GP 35), PA10 (Grilamid TR XE 4010), PC (Makrolon 2805), TPE-U (Elastollan C78 A15) and PP (Braskem CP 393). Further examples are special plastics for specific applications such as medical PLLA (Purasorb PL18, Resomer LR 708) and a PC (Lexan 940) approved for aerospace use. With just a few minor adjustments, Freeformer machines
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