AMAG supports additive manufacturing research with high-tech plant

From left to right: Harald Kainz, Rector of TU Graz, Helmut Kaufmann, Chief Operating Officer (COO) AMAG Austria Metall AG and Christof Sommitsch, Head of the Institute of Materials Science, Joining and Forming at TU Graz, after signing the donation agreement at TU Graz. Lunghammer - TU Graz By AMAG und TU Graz Medienservice - Austria Metall AG, Austria's largest aluminium producer and processor, donates a state-of-the-art additive manufacturing system to Graz University of Technology, thereby promoting research and teaching. The contract for donation was signed at TU Graz on 15 March. AMAG entered the aerospace component manufacturing business one and a half years ago with AMAG components. AMAG components is involved in additive manufacturing for titanium structural components for the aerospace industry - in research through to demonstration parts. Using the so-called WAAM process - Wire-Arc-Additive-Manufacturing (wire buildup welding) - components are built up layer by layer and then given their final shape by mechanical processing. TU Graz operates an additive manufacturing laboratory headed by Franz Haas, head of the Institute of Production Engineering and Christof Sommitsch, head of the Institute of Materials Science, Joining and Forming.