AM@Chalmers Additive Manufacturing hub launched at Chalmers University
Chalmers University of Technology, located in Gothenburg, Sweden, has officially launched AM@Chalmers and the WISE Additive node, an open research infrastructure dedicated to Additive Manufacturing.
“Additive Manufacturing is evolving rapidly and is already making a significant impact in industries like aerospace, biomedical, and energy,” stated Eduard Hryha, Director of AM@Chalmers and CAM2, Centre for Additive Manufacture – Metal. “With this new infrastructure, both researchers and industry gain access to the full spectrum of powder-based metal and multi-material Additive Manufacturing technologies.”
Árni Halldórsson, Director of the Production Area of Advance at Chalmers University of Technology, added, “AM@Chalmers provides a strong platform to build critical mass and research depth to take a lead in the field of Additive Manufacturing. The potential goes beyond material efficiency and improved manufacturing operations. At the user or customer end, Additive Manufacturing will strengthen flexibility and responsiveness to deliver customised products in times of crisis and instability, such as operational environments with low predictability of market demand.”
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The platform is intended to allow researchers and industry to explore novel material combinations and microstructures with the potential to outperform existing materials, thus opening up new applications across a wide range of industries.
Hryha continued, “Sweden already has a strong footprint in Additive Manufacturing and is a recognised leader in metal powder production. But we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible. This infrastructure aims to provide a breeding ground for future innovation and help accelerate the development and industrial implementation.”
WISE Additive node
The new infrastructure also consists of a WISE Additive node, one of three national nodes in Additive Manufacturing research alongside Uppsala University and Linköping University. This initiative is funded by the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE).
‘This collaboration across several universities facilitates external access to research infrastructure in an efficient way, which we hope will lead to Additive Manufacturing enabling more sustainable materials science,” explained Cecilia Persson, Scientific Director of WISE Additive, Uppsala University.
Maria Abrahamsson, WISE coordinator at Chalmers University of Technology, added, “We are very happy that WISE is able to provide researchers from all over Sweden access to this state-of-the-art infrastructure, at Chalmers as well as at the other nodes. I believe this to be an impactful investment that can really make us take big steps toward more sustainable production.”
