Newsletter June 2014

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.