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CSIRO Lab22 Inovation Centre.
CSIRO's Lab22 Innovation Centre will welcome a 3D printing system from Aurora Labs.
Aurora Labs will focus on the advancement of 3D printing exploration and commercialisation via a research collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
The developer of 3D metal printers and powders has teamed with Australia’s national science research organisation to take the next steps in progressing its Additive Manufacturing Solutions Centre. This centre has been established to provide consultancy services, and distribute the company’s 3D printers, additively manufactured parts, and powders.
As per the terms of the agreement, Aurora Labs will supply the CSIRO with one small format printer, accompanied by metallic powders for use in production parts worth $100,000, and CSIRO will provide technical R&D services towards the Solution Centre, also worth $100,000. The printer will be installed in CSIRO’s Lab22 Innovation Centre in Melbourne. CSIRO’s service will include labour and overhead costs, while the organisation will also provide documentation on design, printing and optimisation processes, the outcomes of research, and specialist services in the area of replicative and generative design for multiple metal powders.
“This is an exciting collaboration, and we are incredibly pleased to be working with a tier-one partner such as the preeminent government research organisation CSIRO,” commented David Budge, Managing Director of Aurora Labs. “The research agreement speeds up the development of our Solutions Centre, enhances our credibility, as well as endorses the technical performance of our technology. It also represents a significant advancement of Australia’s additive manufacturing industry and demonstrates the commercial application of 3D metal printers to provide tailored, faster and cheaper components to a number of industries.”
Leon Prentice, Research Director, High Performance Metal Industries, CSIRO, added: “Our Lab22 Innovation Centre is focused on helping companies harness the benefits of metallic additive manufacturing, which we believe creates enormous opportunities for innovative products to be developed and new businesses and jobs created in Australia.
“We are pleased to be working in partnership with Aurora Labs to develop this Solutions Centre, and we look forward to its future success and impact on a range of industries. Aurora Labs is an important part of the Australian metal manufacturing value chain, and CSIRO’s goal is to grow the entire ‘powder to product’ process in Australia.”
