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Canada’s AM metal powder industry gets $8M boost at Equispheres

加拿大添加剂制造粉雷电竞充值生产商Equisperes刚刚从早期和中小型企业融资银行收到了800万美元的投资BDC资本.

Equishperes的总部位于安大略省渥太华,安大略省,并在金属3D打印的绿色效果上行驶,在BDC持续不断地承诺高电位的承诺中加拿大清洁技术firms. The investment is also the latest advance in the nation’s growing metal powder manufacturing stronghold, already home to rival materials companies such as GE Additive’sAP&CPyroGenesis.

等高粉雾化

The secret to Equisphere’s success is a patent-pending method of powder atomization that produces near-perfect spherical metal powders. The uniformity and smoothness of these powders make them the ideal feedstock for additive manufacturing systems, asheterogeneous particles can lead to quality discrepancies in the final part.On the strength of its proprietary technology, Equispheres also previously received a$5 million investmentfrom American global aerospace and defense companyLockheed Martin.

气体血浆雾化is one of the methods used by Equishperes competitors to create powders of such high quality and homogeneity. Another is the弗雷,远处和陈工艺,由英国金属粉生产商持有Metalysis.

equispheres' metal powders (left) vs other atomized powder (right) with highlighted particle agglomerates (orange, green) and variable particle size (yellow). Image via Equispheres
Equispheres的金属粉末(左)与其他原子粉(右),带有突出的颗粒聚集物(橙色,绿色)和可变粒径(黄色)。图像通过Equispheres

雷电竞充值加拿大清洁技术的增材制造

为了获得BDC的最新投资,Equispheres专注于3D打印的环境优势。也就是说,转向添加剂制造业如何减少物流中间人(减少雷电竞充值燃料消耗)以及该技术的“供应”材料经济。

BDC的CleanTech倡议于2018年1月首次启动,将在未来四年内向加拿大的合格公司授予7亿加元的资金。BDC清洁技术实践副总裁Susan Rohac评论说:“这项对Equispheres的投资是BDC为支持创新的加拿大清洁技术公司以扩展世界领导人的悠久历史的一部分。”

“ Equispheres具有积极的增长愿景,并且由于其新颖,无与伦比的产品,强大的管理团队和技术知识,因此在迅速扩展的行业中占据了范围的规模。”

由于环境的努力,加拿大环境与气候变化部长凯瑟琳·麦肯纳(Catherine McKenna)最近还访问了Equispheres,上面图所示,他称其为“一家了不起的渥太华地区清洁技术公司”。通过Karen McCrimmon的照片
For its environmental efforts, Equispheres was also recently visited by Catherine McKenna, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change pictured above, who called it “an amazing Ottawa-area cleantech company.” Photo via Karen McCrimmon

According to Kevin G. Nicholds, President, CEO and Executive Director of Equispheres, BDC’s $8 million investment will be used to help scale-up production and meet powder supply demands from aerospace and automotive customers. Nicholds concluded:

“We are excited to receive the $8 million investment from BDC’s Cleantech practice.”

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特征图显示了由赤道产生的球形金属粉末的SEM图像。图像通过Equispheres