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3D PRINTING FOR AEROSPACE & DEFENSE INDUSTRY
Our 3D printing solutions meet the requirements of the aerospace and defense industry but also the civil and military robotics sector. Our innovative 3D printing technologies enable the design of parts with complex geometries or difficult aerodynamic properties if not impossible to manufacture with traditional methods for engine parts, turbine, aircraft wing or cabin interior .
You can now produce lighter components, increase yields of your critical parts and reduce spare parts inventory by producing on demand. With our industrial 3D printing solutions, reduce costs by eliminating your traditional tooling and shorten your development and manufacturing time for prototypes or functional parts.
3D PRINTERS & MATERIALS FOR THE AEROSPACE & DEFENSE INDUSTRY
Prodways offers high performance 3D printing technologies and materials for aerospace and defense industry. We offer 3D printer for industrial use to meet a wide range of applications: prototypes, parts for functional testing, master models for lost wax casting or direct production of durable plastic parts.
Moreover, we are accelerating innovation for our customers and open new opportunities for high-performance materials for R & D departments through our open material strategy on all our 3D printers ranges.
HIGH PRECISION MASTER MODELS FOR FOUNDRY
Additive manufacturing MOVINGLight® technology is ideal for high precision master patterns for complex aircraft parts as blades reactors or components of aircraft engines, with a demanding dimensional tolerance and roughness to:
- Validate the aerodynamic properties of your parts via 3D printing your prototype before tooling manufacturing. This saves the cost and time of injection molds manufacturing for prototyping stage while facilitating the necessary iterations to finalize your prototypes.
- Improve the performance of your master models with very high levels of detail and resolution compared to traditional wax, without risk of deformation of the master model
- Melt directly your high value parts from the master model 3D printed at very high resolution with castable resins, to optimize the topology and performance of your parts by eliminating the constraints and limitations of master models manufactured by injection.
FUNCTIONAL LIGHT PARTS WITH COMPLEX GEOMETRIES
Our plastic 3D printers ProMaker P series allow you to print durable and strong plastic parts with superior mechanical properties, for functional parts with more complex, more efficient and lighter geometries than the traditional manufacturing techniques.
Functional polymer parts resistant to shock and temperature
We also provide loaded material for your components requiring high stiffness and resistance to temperature variations from -40 ° C to + 130 ° C, while maintaining good mechanical properties and excellent ductility for use over long years- perfectly suitable for example for components of military drones or sensors.
PROTOTYPE FOR FUNCTIONAL VALIDATION
Prodways laser sintering technology offers maximum productivity to reduce operational costs, exceptional accuracy and compliance on all your prototypes for functional validation, as well as excellent thermal stability for optimized mechanical properties.
Our large portfolio of 3D printing materials can meet a wide range of applications for the manufacturing of parts with complex design and superior performances, while reducing the number of parts and assembly needs – such as for prototyping of air conditioning ducts
OPEN PLATFORMS FOR AEROSPACE RESEARCH
All Prodways 3D printers ranges provide an open platform for R & D centers to develop their own applications and pushing innovation beyond traditional or existing technology methods.
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING IN THE SERVICE OF AEROSPACE & DEFENSE INDUSTRY
PRODWAYS AEROSPACE DIVISION
Prodways created a specific division dedicated to the aerospace industry, based in the European aerospace cradle in Toulouse in France, with a showroom dedicated to these industries. Our expertise, combined with the one of Group Gorgé in robotics, allows us to meet the requirements of civil and military aircraft manufacturers or maintenance and repair centers but also airline companies.
A COMPLETE 3D PRINTING OFFER DEDICATED TO AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
- Tooling and embedded parts manufacturing with over 30 years experience and a label EN9100 / ISO9001 (ECA Group)
- Plastic and metal finished parts manufacturing through our fleet of thirty industrial 3D printers with ISO9001 certified technologies and materials (and EN9100 in progress).
- Developing machines and materials on all 3D printing technologies
Come and meet us in our showroom base in Toulouse.
This division can count on the industrial experience of:
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- Initial, parts manufacturing subsidiary of Prodways group, with 15 years experience of producing plastic and metal parts in 3D printing in aerospace. Its fleet of thirty industrial 3D printers, including a dozen metal, covers a wide range of technologies and certified plastic and metal materials.
- Prodways Technology, high level international company in developing industrial 3D printers and additive manufacturing materials.
- The Aerospace division of ECA Group, a subsidiary, as Prodways, of Groupe Gorgé, with 30 years of experience in production, inspection and maintenance tooling in the aerospace sector.
- Initial, parts manufacturing subsidiary of Prodways group, with 15 years experience of producing plastic and metal parts in 3D printing in aerospace. Its fleet of thirty industrial 3D printers, including a dozen metal, covers a wide range of technologies and certified plastic and metal materials.
Based on experience and existing resources of Groupe Gorgé companies, we are the only company in the 3D printing industry capable of quickly implementing a team and ressources adapted to defense industry requests. An ad hoc organization is created, gathering the teams of the Prodways aerospace division and Groupe Gorgé competent companies to process your request in its entirety.
OUR QUALITY CERTIFICATION
The aeronautics and aerospace industries are at the front line of a strictly-regulated marketplace. Mastering the standards and fully maintaining aeronautics and aerospace certification is a key strategic resource that the Prodways Group shares with its partners. Whether engineered for passenger transit or military applications, the extremely tough safety and reliability requirements target every single link in a procurement chain interlinking a hugely diverse cross section of suppliers and subcontractors.
The Prodways Group subsidiaries are certified and regularly audited:
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- our development, design parts and manufacturing center is ISO 9001 certified and EN9100 certification is in process
- ECA Group aerospace is EN9100 and ISO 9001 certified.
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AIRBUS HELICOPTER, DASSAULT AVIATION, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, Turbomeca, Sagem, CNES, THALES, SNECMA MOTOR SMA (SAFRAN Group), VISION SYSTEM AERONAUTIC, COMPOSITE INDUSTRY, REXIAA, CATHERINEAU, AIRCELLE TECHSPACE, RUAG and Cassidian, SOGECLAIR AEROSPACE, WANDERCRAFT, INFOTRON ™ TRUSTED INITIAL-PRODWAYS, ECA GROUP AEROSPACE & PRODWAYS GROUP.
