Beneficiary’s Name: GRANTE Antenna Development and Manufacturing Private Limited Company
Project Title: GRANTE ZRt. R&D&I Development Related to 3D Printer Development
Project Identification Number: GINOP-2.1.2-8-1-4-16-2017-00345
Contracted Grant Amount: HUF 76,650,169
Grant Rate: 45%
Project Completion Date: April 28, 2021
Brief Description of the Project:
3D printing is undeniably one of the most promising development areas of our time. Since the technology emerged roughly 30 years ago, continuous innovation has led to its increasingly widespread daily use in recent years, and it has been tested in nearly every manufacturing field. In some cases, we already see attempts at industrial-level use (end-product manufacturing). However, two factors currently present the biggest obstacles to the explosive spread of 3D printing in the industry: the printing speed and the limitations of using printed materials as end products. Today, printed plastic products are mostly used „just” as prototypes, with actual usability for most products being severely limited.
Our goal is to address these two aspects during development, in cooperation with DO3D Innovations Kft., using the Voxel type printer they design, market, and partially manufacture at our facility as the base machine, to create a new 3D printer capable of industrial applications. This printer will be unique in both the speed of the workpiece polymerization and the possible material composition. By enriching with various fillers, we aim to create materials with mechanical properties capable of meeting requirements long-term, either incorporated into a product or as standalone products. Our stated goal is for the printer development and materials resulting from our R&D project to offer a reasonable alternative to injection-molded parts for small- and medium-series productions.
Enriching and strengthening photopolymers with various materials, and developing them for additive use, is a challenge that very few attempt globally due to its complexity.
Another objective is to explore, following successful development, how we can make the raw material printable by other existing printers on the market without significant modifications. As an external unit and/or head unit, this would make the product and materials accessible to a broader range of users.
Material Development:
Machine Development: