Freemelt establishes North American application center

Freemelt-Americas, a subsidiary of Freemelt, has entered an agreement with HAMR Industries to establish Freemelt’s first application center in North America – in support of the commercialization of the industrial eMELT machine.

HAMR Industries is a technology and manufacturing company specializing in advanced materials and manufacturing techniques for applications operating in harsh and extreme conditions for the energy and defense industries. Together with HAMR, Freemelt has established an E-PBF (Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion) application center at the HAMR facility within Neighborhood 91, near Pittsburgh International Airport. Neighborhood 91 is the world’s first end-to-end additive manufacturing production campus bringing together a complete AM supply chain designed to reduce costs and lead times – fostering innovation and collaboration within the AM industry.

“Thanks to Dr. Michael Schmitt, CEO of HAMR Industries, his team, and this new application center, we are strengthening our capability to meet the growing demand from industrial and government customers. With joint resources, we can meet increasing requests for projects, feasibility studies, and engineering support in material process and application development, during the transitions from AM research to serial production. With HAMR Industries and Neighborhood 91’s expertise in metal additive manufacturing, R&D, and production, we ensure that eMELT will be exposed to new government and industrial business opportunities within defense and energy, driving the commercialization of eMELT across North America,” said Darin Everett, Freemelt’s Regional President in America.

“HAMR is excited to have a Freemelt ONE installed in our facility here in Pittsburgh. On-site E-PBF capabilities will provide a unique opportunity for us to jointly develop this incredible technology towards critical defense, energy, and industrial applications using materials like tungsten, refractory high entropy alloys, and OFHC (Oxygen-Free High Conductivity) copper.  This is the first step towards providing domestic production capacity within E-PBF using the eMELT system. Establishing this collaboration with Freemelt also demonstrates the value of Neighborhood 91 and an additive manufacturing ecosystem, where a regional concentration of academic knowledge and industry know-how attract new technology and foster an environment of growth. We look forward to working with Darin and the Freemelt team to demonstrate E-PBF for components in extreme environments,” said Michael P. Schmitt, CEO and Senior Research Scientist at HAMR Industries.