After several years of research and development, Wayland Additive is now showcasing its new electron beam powder bed fusion (PBF) process dubbed NeuBeam.

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The U.K. company claims that its tech has numerous advantages over other metal PBF processes, including both laser PBF and other electron beam systems. The company was spun out of Reliance Precision, a roughly 100-year-old engineering firm that relied on a series of Innovate UK grants to develop a new form of electron beam PBF based on processes related to electron microscopy and electron beam lithography.

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Licensing the technology from Reliance, Wayland is now in the process of commercializing its NeuBeam technology with the goal of delivering machines to six customers by 2021. Parts printed by NeuBeam, without the formation of a “sinter cake”. Image courtesy of Wayland Additive. Wayland CEO Will Richardson suggests that, using principles developed from the semi-conductor industry, NeuBeam is able […]

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