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On May 2, 9T Labs, a Swiss additive manufacturing company, and Arkema, a high-performance polymer supplier, announced that the two parties have cooperated to achieve mass production of small composite structural parts with complex internal fiber orientations, and have certain low-cost competition.
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Although fiber-reinforced composites are already highly utilized in the fuselages and wings of newer aircraft such as the Airbus A350 and Boeing 787, the aerospace industry still relies heavily on metals for smaller, thicker interior structures such as Attach brackets, hinges, and support structures
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As an ideal substitute for metal materials, fiber-reinforced composite materials can significantly reduce the weight of parts and finally produce the required shape, but traditional composite materials manufacturing technology cannot produce complex and cost-effective products, so it is difficult to become a small metal parts replacement.
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9T Labs and Arkema recently produced a helicopter door hinge part to demonstrate the potential of the new process to replace metal in aerospace parts
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9T Labs is a spin-off of ETH Zurich, founded in 2018 by Chester Houwink, Giovanni Cavolina and Martin Eichenhofer, with a mission to make "carbon fiber composites as accessible as normal metals through 3D printing".
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