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Schunk Carbon Technology, a service manufacturer headquartered in Germany, has begun implementing Anisoprint’s 3D printing technology to produce custom tools and demonstrator models.
The company serves a host of companies in industries like automotive, delivering construction components in carbon/ graphite, carbon compounds, silicon carbide and quartz for high temperature applications. It has harnessed Anisoprint’s Composite Fibre Co-Extrusion (CFC) technology, which powers the company’s Composer desktop platform, to manufacture custom tools for its production workflows.
The Composer series of machines – consisting of the A3 and A4 models – is able to print composite carbon fibre (CCF) and composite basalt fibre (CBF) materials, facilitating the printing of strong and lightweight parts. The Luxembourg-based vendor is pitching this portfolio of products as an alternative, in some cases at least, to metal parts. In comparison with 2024-T351 Aluminium, Anisoprint’s CCF material’s strength-to-weight ratio is said to be five times higher, while CBF’s is two times higher. Both materials are processable on the A3 and A4 printers, which offer build volumes of 420 x 297 mm and 297 x 210 mm respectively.
In adopting Anisoprint’s 3D printing technology, Schunk Carbon Technology has joined the likes of BMW and Brightlands Materials Center. Through the technology’s performance in printing custom tools and demonstrator parts, Schunk Carbon Technology has so far been impressed.
“We are using the Anisoprint Composer for printing demonstrators and tools for our production,” commented Gotthard Nauditt, R&D Engineer Composites at Schunk Carbon Technology. “The Composer does a good job. It [is] precise and reliable and, together with its slicing software, Aura, it forms a capable tool.”
