Mears completes delivery of aerospace turbine parts made on new Velo3D machine
Mears Machine Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, has announced the delivery of a complete set of aerospace gas turbine components to a new customer.
The hardware includes two Haynes 282 components additively manufactured on the company’s newly acquired Velo3D Sapphire XC Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) Additive Manufacturing machine, as well as additively manufactured Inconel 718 hardware and other precision-machined components manufactured both by Mears and other companies.
The additively manufactured hardware went through a specialist combined Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) and heat treatment cycle to enable improved properties for high-speed rotating hardware, together with specialist polishing techniques to improve performance.
“Our team is incredibly proud of this achievement,” stated James Lloyd, CEO of Mears. “This is a significant milestone for Mears Machine and our customer. The product is a fantastic feat of engineering, which has been realised by our world-class equipment and skilled employees. We wish our customer success with their testing and are excited by the growth prospects which appear to significantly exceed our existing print capacity. We also greatly appreciate the support of Velo3D, who since the purchase of our Haynes 282 machine back in April have provided fantastic support for both the machine and this product.”
