On June 27, 2019, the Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing Technology Center held an opening ceremony in Shanghai. The deputy mayor of Anting Town, Jiading District, the consul general of the Swiss Consulate in Shanghai and more than a hundred customers and industry partners, as well as Oerlikon's fraternal company-Oerlikon Balzers, Oerlikon Manmade Fibers came to congratulate and made Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing in China. This strategically important layout has sincere blessings.
On the day of the celebration, Mr. Xiao Qing, Head of Oerlikon Metco Aviation and Energy Business Unit China, Mr. Guo Haoran, Head of Oerlikon Balzers China Tool Business Line, Mr. Luodo Bautmans, Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing, and Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing Mikkel Pederson had in-depth exchanges with on-site business partners on technology and service applications in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine, mold, powder materials and other fields.
At present, Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing's technology center in China has a total of two large and medium-sized printing equipment, and comprehensive testing and analysis facilities to ensure product quality control. Based on the original R & D and sales of high-quality metal powders, Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing China can provide a faster and more convenient overall printing solution for the domestic local market, from powder materials to print design to mass production and post-processing processing, technology Value-added services such as consulting.
"Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing has more than 50 industrial-grade powder bed metal additive equipment of different mainstream brands in the world, and all use Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing's powder for processing. The results are smooth and reliable, and have won praise from many customers. "Dr. Sven Hicken said.
In addition to R & D and applications in the main fields of automotive, aerospace, medical, and mold, Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing also always pays close attention to and keeps up with new developments in the application industry. For example, additive manufacturing is also actively promoting the development of electric vehicles and other fields. Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing not only works closely with many large and well-known aerospace and high-end racing OEMs abroad, but also has long-term business relationships with many small and medium-sized innovative companies and scientific research institutions. In China, Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing is very willing to open the door to exchanges and cooperation with local partners and looks forward to making great progress in the Chinese market.
Since the establishment of the Oerlikon Additive Manufacturing Division, the Oerlikon Group has acquired two international heavyweight senior additive manufacturing companies in just 3 years, and has successively opened innovation centers, printing centers, and distribution centers in Germany, the United States, and China. All these strategic deployments prove the ambition of Oerlikon Group in the field of additive manufacturing!