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We need more space!

Here you will find the ongoing photos of our new building. Whoever visits our homepage or Facebook page The following already knows that there is a building site next to BSF Bünter AG. However, we have not yet officially revealed what exactly is being added to our existing company:

The extension will increase our production area at ground level, and the upper floor will be dedicated solely to additive manufacturing.
We incorporate our experience of over 4 years of LaserCusing into the spatial planning in order to make the work as reliable and efficient as possible. This is how BSF Bünter AG is creating the only centre for additive manufacturing of metal in Switzerland! The residential building was demolished, the ground levelled and the shell erected. On our Homepage and Facebook page photos of the construction progress will be published on an ongoing basis, so stay tuned and check back from time to time.

Current status:
The work has been completed. At the end of March, the machines for 3D metal printing were moved to the upper floor, followed by some milling machines from the existing building to the ground floor in April. Finally, an attractive outdoor area was designed. We have moved in and have already settled in well.

The Rheintaler has printed a construction report from us. Have fun reading.

15 September 2016

General

Targeted porous sections with 3D printing

For 4 years now, we have been assuring you that BSF Bünter AG can generate completely dense components using additive manufacturing (3D printing of metals). But there are new applications that require exactly the opposite: Targeted porous parts. After several tests, analyses and adjustments to the process parameters, we would like to inform you that this technology is now also available at BSF Bünter AG. Possible applications are e.g. filters, vents, air vents, gas mixers or lubricant supply. We look forward to realising your own innovative ideas with you. In the spirit of our slogan "No Limits".

The Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium will once again take place in St. Gallen on 26 August 2016. With this year's theme "Innovative SMEs - competitiveness in structural change", the BSF Bünter AG stand will of course not be missing. You too can benefit from interesting presentations in combination with an extensive exhibition. (www.technologiesymposium.ch)

Kind regards
Kurt and Fabian Graber

29. June 2016

General

New materials for additive manufacturing

To make additive manufacturing even more attractive for you, BSF Bünter AG now has 2 new materials in the Offer. Thanks to their special properties, these two new products can be used under the most difficult conditions.

CL91 RWThe stainless hot-work tool steel based on the well-known material Corrax (1.2083) is completely corrosion-resistant and can be heat-treated directly at BSF Bünter AG to a hardness of up to 50HRC and 1,600 N/mm² yield strength.
Application: Well-known areas of application are mould making for injection moulds or general mechanical engineering with high loads.

CL120FeNiThis designation stands for an Invar powder with 36% nickel. Invar is characterised above all by its extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion. This material is not yet officially sold on the market and is therefore not yet available.
exclusively and only available from BSF Bünter AG! Thanks to a co-operation agreement with ConceptLaser, we are the only beta testers in Switzerland and one of the very first suppliers of the new Invar material in Europe.
Application: In research and development, the low expansion at temperature differences is very interesting. Be it for joining glass and steel, or for very precise measuring systems such as in a 3D coordinate measuring machine, where temperature fluctuations must not cause any errors.

BSF Bünter AG looks forward to receiving your interesting enquiries at f.graber@bsf-ag.ch.

Kurt and Fabian Graber
BSF Bünter AG

15 March 2016

General

Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium 2014

Successful appearance at the 14th Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium

BSF Bünter AG has passed its baptism of fire with flying colours. For the first time, Kurt Graber, owner and Managing Director of BSF AG, was able to present the innovative LaserCUSING melting process at an exhibition stand at the Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium. Together with his son Fabian Graber, who is responsible for optimising designs in the additive manufacturing sector, he presented the new process to around 300 interested experts. The examples of highly complex components and the presentation on "3D printing - a revolution in design and production" met with great interest from visitors. The very positive visitor feedback and the numerous enquiries prove that BSF Bünter AG is ideally equipped for the future with the laser melting process it offers.

8 September 2015

General

2nd SLM system and addition to the 3D printing team

Standing still means going backwards. A lot has happened at BSF Bünter AG in the last six months. We would like to bring you up to date, particularly in the area of LaserCUSING.

In January, we were able to commission our second M2 machine from ConceptLaser. The resulting increase in production capacity immediately required an increase in personnel. With Marco Hug, we were able to welcome a dedicated employee to the company and especially to the LaserCUSING team. Fabian Graber also joined the team on 1 September to ensure that the systems are working to capacity. The recent NTB Bachelor graduate will be responsible for sales and design work in additive manufacturing in future. With this addition, the LaserCUSING team has doubled in terms of machinery and personnel, and our two experienced specialists Reto Federer and Kevin Wüst are looking forward to their active support and your interesting orders.

For enquiries, advice and information regarding additive manufacturing, please contact Fabian Graber at the following email address: f.graber@bsf-ag.ch The entire BSF team is looking forward to a continued good co-operation.

P.S.: We will be back at a tabletop trade fair on 22 September 2015. Visit us at the Swissmechanic Business Day in Lucerne.
http://www.swissmechanic-businessday.ch/

8 September 2015

General

Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium 2015

BSF Bünter AG at the Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium. At our exhibition stand, we will be showing you limitless possibilities thanks to LaserCUSING. LaserCUSING, the melting process for powdered original metals, exclusively at BSF Bünter AG. Additive manufacturing in combination with mechanical processing makes the process unique.

You will find our stand at the Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium in St. Gallen on Friday, 21 August 2015.

Find out more on the website of the Eastern Switzerland Technology Symposium:

http://www.technologiesymposium.ch/

18 August 2015

General

Newsletter June 2014

From 3D data directly to the metal workpiece

Milling, turning, grinding, wire eroding, programming and designing have long been part of the services offered by BSF Bünter AG. In order to be innovative and at the cutting edge of technology, the company now goes one step further with the laser cusing process. It produces the most complicated workpieces directly from 3D data for its customers, making it unique in the industry as a contract manufacturer. These consist of 100 per cent original metals and therefore have the same properties as a mechanically processed part. The advantage: they are thinner-walled, lighter, without weak points or irregularities, because they are made "from a single mould". In laser cusing, the powdered metals are built up additively layer by layer (to hundredths of a millimetre) using laser beams. In all mechanical processes, material is removed from a block, which inevitably leads to difficulties with complex designs. With the laser process, the product is built up without tools, which means that coils, cavities, nested or superimposed tubes are no longer a problem for production.

17. June 2014