EHLA can operate up to 10 times faster than conventional LMD. Image: Fraunhofer ILT
Following its acquisition of the UK’s first EHLA system, TWI is investigating the capabilities and future potential of EHLA technology.
TWI's section manager for laser additive manufacturing, Carl Hauser, meeting with Hornet Laser Cladding at the firm's site in Alblasserdam, Netherlands. (Image: TWI)
EHLA is capable of speeds 10 times faster than traditional laser metal deposition in terms of surface coverage rate
Coating a brake disc via EHLA (Credit: Fraunhofer ILT/Volker Lannert)
Keely Portway looks at some of the latest ways laser surface treatment is being used to optimise automotive production
In the Fraunhofer project 'FutureAM – Next Generation Additive Manufacturing,' six Fraunhofer institutes are collaborating to accelerate the processing speed of additive manufacturing with metal powder by a factor of ten.
At Formnext this year, between 19-22 November in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the institutes will present initial results that prove that this accelaration in processing speed will indeed be possible.
Matthias Möllenhoff, product manager for EHLA at Hornet Laser Cladding, discusses the benefits of the EHLA high-speed cladding technology, and how it is gaining traction in China
The developers of Extreme High-Speed Laser Material Deposition (EHLA), a process that can be used to coat, repair or additively manufacture components in an economical and environmentally friendly way, have been awarded first prize of the tenth Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis
EHLA can operate up to 10 times faster than conventional LMD. Image: Fraunhofer ILT
New high-speed laser cladding technologies are being developed that rival more traditional techniques, as Matthew Dale discovers
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen and RWTH Aachen University have been awarded a €50,000 prize for an ultra-high-speed laser material deposition process called EHLA
