GMP300 – GROB’s Machine for Additive Manufacturing
After its premiere a year ago, GROB will present the GMP300 at the 2023 In-House Exhibition, a manufacturing system for the production of near-net-shape components in the field of additive manufacturing with improved properties, offering its customers a modified machine variant.
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GROB Liquid Metal Printing System GMP300
To suit the market requirements for customized and near-net-shape components, Liquid Metal Printing (LMP) was developed at GROB for a future-oriented, economically sound and at the same time flexible additive manufacturing process that eliminates the disadvantages of traditional additive manufacturing in the metalworking sector. At last year’s In-House Exhibition, GROB presented the GMP300 for the first time – a reliable, efficient and cost-conscious system technology with maximum production flexibility for individual and small-series production.
GMP stands for GROB Metal Printing, and 300 for the size of the work area, 300 x 300 x 300 mm3. The GMP300 is equipped with 3-axis kinematics and maximum axis speed of 30 m/min. The oxygen-reduced atmosphere with shielding gas protects the component from oxidation, guaranteeing consistently good material quality.
GROB Liquid Metal Printing System GMP300
Improvements of the GMP300 Are in the Details
In recent months, the GMP300 has been continuously developed further parallel to its successful launch, and will now be presented with innovations at this year's in-house exhibition.
With a further developed protective gas concept and improved sealing, the residual oxygen content in the installation space can be further reduced to a low ppm content. Progress has also been made in materials, so that additional aluminum alloys can now be processed. Successful progress was also made in droplet generation with aluminum-magnesium alloys, which had been difficult to process. This way we successfully cleared the first hurdle to the production of magnesium-containing aluminum components. In addition to the identification and investigation of new materials, we are carrying out various trials to qualify already printable materials as part of a defined testing process. The goal is to identify and quantify the material-specific properties of the parts produced with the process.