Christian Staudigel of Headmade Supplies »

In our second 3dpbm Pulse Podcast episode of 2022, we sat down to talk with Christian Staudigel, CEO and Co-founder of Headmade Supplies, as the corporate prepares to additional scale its ColdMetalFusion know-how after closing a brand new funding spherical with AM Ventures and the EIC.

After learning Mechanical Engineering on the DHBW Stuttgart and Superior Supplies and Processes on the Friedrich-Alexander-College in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Mr. Staudigel accomplished the Government MBA program on the Julius Maximilian College of Würzburg. Along with co-founder and managing director Christian Fischer, they invented Chilly Steel Fusion know-how throughout their work on the SKZ – The Plastics Middle analysis institute.

ColdMetalFusion, which Staudigel additionally refers to as “Steel SLS” is an thrilling evolution of AM because it opens up new manufacturing potentialities by combining a number of AM processes into one. It’s a hybrid know-how that leverages the strengths of certain metallic processes with plastics powder mattress fusion and MIM. In reality, the founders began with injection molding and located a strategy to construct a bridge in between MIM and SLS laser sintering.

In doing so, they understood the potential of the prevailing put in base of hundreds of working SLS printers accessible worldwide and that these programs might be transformed into metallic printers. They’ve since expanded the preliminary concept to launch a complete platform to allow industrial manufacturing, working in stealth mode with key gamers within the AM discipline behind. Now they’ve come of stealth and into the open.

“On the whole, ColdMetalFusion is offering uniform half properties and superior shrinkage to different applied sciences. That’s how we obtain remaining half properties that you’d normally solely anticipate from injection molding or casting,” Staudigel defined throughout our interview. “As we mentioned earlier, the furnace is a central subject the place you’ll be able to leverage these properties. The larger the furnace you’ve gotten, the extra you’ll be able to cut back your half prices. Within the automotive business they’ve furnaces with conveyor belts. We must begin at smaller collection sizes, however that’s the potential of CMF and lots of large producers already personal the mandatory tools.

“Reliability – Staudigel added – can be a significant benefit. Chilly Steel Fusion runs on customary machines accessible from a number of suppliers. Which means confirmed tools that’s utilized in operational atmosphere since many years. The course of implementation at Aspect 22 took simply 3 days and the corporate has been producing since then with none points. Then there’s additionally the upper inexperienced half power. Since our feedstock consists of micro-granules we will additionally use powder with totally different sizes and styles with out affecting our course of.

Headmade Supplies simply grew to become a part of the AM Ventures Fund, and at present we had the chance to completely converse with Christian Staudigel and be taught extra about how the know-how works, their enterprise fashions and their expectations for future progress in excessive quantity metallic AM manufacturing.

We have now many wonderful episodes of the 3dpbm Pulse Podcast lined as much as coincide with main occasions and bulletins from the good, most enjoyable and most modern firms on this planet of AM, so keep tuned!