Join CEO and founder of Perseus Materials, Dan Lee, at the October NCDMM Alliance Partner Lunch and Learn focused on Continuous Sweep Additive Forming (CSAF), a new class of continuous molding that combines the speeds and reliability of pultrusion with the adaptability of 3D printing.
Why is pultrusion limited to constant cross-sections and curvatures? Pultrusion uses a fixed die, so the shape can’t change along the lengths. One current iteration of CSAF uses robotics and two thin plates that adjust to shape the Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP) component during pulling, resembling a shape-changing pultrusion with an actuated die.
Benefits:
- CSAF has low lead times (no static molds required) and low cycle times (up to 4 foot wide and 0.5″ inches thick at 1 foot per minute).
- CSAF capabilities are uniquely enabled by proprietary resin chemistry with unique curing behavior.
- CSAF is able to make large, custom panels that enables new determinant assembly strategies for large products like ship hulls.
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