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Through more than 100 years of engineering experience and collective knowledge sharing with partners like aibuild and Reichenbacher Hamuel, (Kronach, Germany) seeks to enhance the adoption of large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) for key applications.

One project involved the printing of a custom curved print bed, which was then used to print a Savonius wind turbine blade — a vertical-axis wind turbine that converts the force of the wind into torque via a rotating shaft — in under two hours (118 minutes) for one blade using Airtech Advanced Materials Group’s (Huntington, Calif., U.S.) Dahltram C-250CF resin with chopped carbon fiber. 

The final part weighed only 2.1 kilograms. The use of AiSync — AI-powered 3D print software that reportedly makes customer tool paths 86% quicker, with 65% less failed builds, three times stronger parts and with more than 90% efficiency — provided precise control of the Weber extruder.

Aibuild’s in-house material testing also automatically set key printing parameters based on the material properties and behaviors.