Protometals delivered the first Gresham & Craven Injector to the Steam museum Hoorn- Medemblik

June 2008

 

On Saturday the 31st of may, the first casting of a series of 6 Gresham & Craven injectors was handed over to the responsible team of the museum.

The bronze castings are produced in a unique cooperation between the museum, TNO and Protometals. Modern technology like rapid prototyping and casting simulation were used to achieve the nice looking ant tight casting.

 

The long search of the museum to find a exact replica of the original injectors has come to an end. The enthusiastic people couldn't wait to hold the injector in its future working place on the steam locomotive "Belllo". Of course a bit early, the castings still have to be machined.

for more information,

please look on the website of the museumstoomtram

 

 

Protometals sponsors DUT RACING TEAM

April 2008

 

The sponsor contribution of Protometals is the manufacturing of the throttle body for the new car of  DUT RACING TEAM.

The geometry of the housing is rather complex. Casting came out as the most suitable production technique for this part.

The production of the throttle body is a nice example of rapid manufacturing. The 3D CAD-file was printed out on our Invision 3D-printer. The 3D-print is used as a lost model in our plaster moulding process. The plaster mould is made under vacuum an also the casting of the aluminium is a vacuum process.

This production process gives a fully functional aluminium casting. As to be seen on the picture, the part has several double curved planes and cannot be demoulded in a standard mould.

This kind of parts can be produced with the rapid-manufacturing process of Protometals, within days and without expensive moulds. Not only aluminium castings, bur also bronze, brass and zamak castings can be made in the same way.

On the website www.dutracing.nl you can find more information about DUT RACING TEAM.

 

 

Protometals expands possibilities with Invision 3D printer

may 2007

With the installation of a 3D-systems’ invision 3D printer, Protometals is now able to do in-house rapid prototyping. The printed parts are mainly used as a master for our block moulding metal casting process. The new process not only reduces our lead time for metal prototypes but also gives the possibility to make “impossible” castings.

The capacity of our printer will also be used for our new print service for concept models.

 

Protometals on exhibition Materials Engineering

March 2007

Protometals will be participant on the 8th Materials Engineering exhibition which will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on the 9th and 10th of May 2007.

More information: Materials Engineering