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CEAD officially launches industrial-scale continuous fiber CFAM Prime 3D printer
Some 3D printing stories take place over extended periods, such as the month-long 3D printing of a bridge. Other times, research and development can take even longer. In those cases, we try to keep readers apprised of major developments as they occur.
Today, we bring updates on the CEAD large-scale CFAM Prime 3D printer designed for shipbuilding, infrastructure work, and industrial projects. CFAM stands for Continuous Fiber Additive Manufacturing and involves infusing continuous strands of carbon fiber or glass into 3D printed thermoplastics.After settling into their new Delft location and printing various materials for a couple months, CEAD hosted an event to officially launch and show off the capabilities of the CFAM Prime. They 3D printed parts with their continuous fiber and with short fibers so attendees could feel the mechanical properties differences between them. There was also a live demonstration of a CFAM Prime adding a console to a cabin that had been 3D printed earlier.
Dutch company CEAD developed the technology because they wanted to produce parts with the complex geometries enabled by 3D printing but with the industrial strength of composite moulds. There are many fiber-reinforced plastics available for 3D printing, but they all use short fibers, which increase the strength of parts incrementally but not to the standard of industrial applications. By pushing a continuous strand of fiber with the plastic extrusion, parts become incredibly rigid.
The CFAM Prime 3D prints are strong enough even for CEAD’s first two customers, Royal Roos, a marine engineering company, and Poly Products, a specialist in fiber-reinforced plastics and construction. Royal Roos is already using a CFAM Prime to 3D print ship models for motion and resistance testing in basins. “Fast and accurate 3D printing of large and strong (ship) parts was so far not possible. With this new 3D printer this will work. We are, for example, investigating how to use this technology to produce gangways.
3D printing is not only fast, but you can also calculate the cost price in advance. Moreover, it is possible to recycle materials," remarked Fulko Roos, founder of Royal Roos.Poly Products will be receiving their CFAM Prime around the middle of 2019, with plans to 3D trim lines for cargo ships. “At Poly Products we manufacture fibre-reinforced plastic products,” stated Jan Schrama, founder of Poly Products. “With this 3D printer we can work faster, at lower costs and we have less manual labour. This makes it easier to make one-off products and showing customers a prototype, without making a mould.”
Besides making super sturdy parts, the CFAM Prime can make very large parts as well, with a build volume of 2m x 4m x 1.5m; that makes it the largest 3D printer commercially available in Europe. Here are some of its other impressive specs:
Smart heating/cooling system uses thermal cameras and adjusts in real time
Siemens CNC system base
Can process ABS, PP, PET, and high-temp materials like PEEK and more
Output of 15kg/hour
Able to run for 24 hours without operator presence
There will be only six CFAM Prime 3D printers produced in the first series, so if you'd like one of these nearly $1 million machines, place your orders soon.
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CEAD's new large-format Continuous Fiber 3D printer
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The Netherlands based company CEAD is developing a large-format Continuous Fiber Additive Manufacturing (CFAM) machine for industrial applications, including construction and shipbuilding.
CEAD is developing a large-format 3D printer for industrial applications. Photo via CEAD.Continuous fiber 3D printing
CEAD has not revealed the specifications of their CFAM process, as they are still in the process of securing patents, however other solutions for working with carbon fiber are already on the market. It will be interesting to learn how the CEAD process compares.
Continuous fiber 3D printing has been commercially available since 2015, with the release of the MarkForged Mark One. Continuous Fiber Fabrication (CFF) is a process developed and coined by Markforged, a Massachusetts-based producer of 3D printers.
CFF uses two print nozzles to produce parts with continuous strands of composite materials, such as carbon fiber, fiberglass or kevlar. The first nozzle follows a conventional printing process, extruding the outer shell of a part in layers. The second nozzle deposits a continuous strand of material on every layer that MarkForged CEO, Greg Mark, says produces components “five times stronger and twenty times stiffer” than regular 3D printed parts. Currently, MarkForged do not offer 3D printers with build sizes as large as CEAD’s CFAM machine. Read more about CFF in a 3D Printing Industry interview with Mark.
Testing and production
In January CEAD revealed some key specifications of the 3D printer, including an impressive max build size of 4x2x1.5m and a deposition rate of 15kg of material an hour. The printer is compatible with many different thermoplastics, including ABS, PET, PP and PEEK.
Since then, CEAD has successfully tested the impregnation and extrusion of continuous glass and carbon fiber materials in the printing process.
During the test the CFAM machine ran for 24 hours without operator interference. CFAM samples were subjected to several interlaminar shear strength (ILSS) tests showing parts conforming to several ISO standards.
CEAD have moved production to a larger 1000 square meter facility, located near Delft, Netherlands. The location will be used to produce the first full-scale CFAM machine.
The company say the CFAM 3D printer will be available this year.
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