Siemens' Materials Solutions 3D printing facility installs four Guyson systems - TCT Magazine

2022-09-03 10:24:43 By : Mr. Zemian Li

Guyson installs four Guyson Euroblast 8, pressure feed, blast finishing systems at Materials Solutions.

Industrial finishing and cleaning equipment manufacturer, Guyson, has installed four of its systems inside Siemens’ Materials Solutions additive manufacturing facility in Worcester.

The new Guyson Euroblast 8, pressure feed, blast finishing systems complete with side loading turntables, are designed to remove semi-sintered particles from printed components and provide an even cosmetic finish.

The facility, which houses 15 AM systems, already uses a number of smaller machines from Guyson including model 2 and model 4 Guyson Euroblast blast cabinets. The new larger systems have been installed to enable handling of larger AM components due to their internal blast chamber dimensions of 1050 mm (w) x 1050 mm (d) x 880 mm (h) and component access options. Each cabinet is also fitted with a side loading turntable, allowing heavy components with a max 300 kg evenly distributed load to be loaded outside the blast cabinet via forklift or crane if necessary.

“Materials Solutions has been using Guyson blasters since our origin and when it came to upgrade and update it made perfect sense to us to go back to Guyson”, says Phil Hatherley, General Manager at Materials Solutions. “We have increased size capability plus capacity and working with our team Guyson have provided us with a quality solution for blasting the larger components that our customers are now looking for us to supply.”

During blasting of AM parts, externally mounted fluorescent lighting and additional interior bulkhead lights ensures good visibility through an angled, toughened glass, viewing window protected by fine mesh gauze and fitted with quick change anti-frost sheet. A nozzle holding bracket gives the operator the choice of either holding the blast nozzle and moving it around the component or placing the pressure blast nozzle in the bracket, and a floating foot pedal is provided for blast nozzle operation.

The whole Guyson blast system is completed with a blast media delivery/extraction system comprising of a Guyson model CY600/12 Cyclone Reclamator which separates out re-usable media, G55 Pressure Pot and C800 Dust Collector.

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