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• To help drive additive manufacturing (AM) research, Loughborough University in England is using Electron Beam Melting (EBM) technology from Swedish metal AM company Freemelt. This work is being led by Moataz Attallah,...
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To help drive additive manufacturing (AM) research, Loughborough University in England is using Electron Beam Melting (EBM) technology from Swedish metal AM company Freemelt. This work is being led by Moataz Attallah, Professor of Advanced Materials Processing (Metallics) and the Dean of the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical, and Materials Engineering. Loughborough is only the latest in an ever-growing list of research institutions and companies around the world, from the U.S. and Italy to Sweden, Hungary, and the U.K., to adopt Freemelt’s solutions.
Professor Attallah has been working with laser-based AM for over 15 years, and knows well the strengths, as well as the restrictions, of laser technologies, especially when it comes to printing challenging metals like copper, molyb