Industrial Implemenation of Additve Manufacturing through Advanced Polymer Sintering (I AM APS)

该项目将开发基于激光烧结（LS）和高速烧结（HSS）的新型增材制造技术的供应链和全面生产能力，以应用于英国经济的三大工业部门。其中包括快速消费品（联合利华），航空航天（BAE系统）和空间（科巴姆技术服务）。拉夫堡大学拥有的制造能力将由财团合作伙伴开发和利用，除了最终用户外，还包括制造机器能力开发人员（Xaar），产品设计专业（塞巴斯蒂安康兰协会）以及位于谢菲尔德大学的聚合物加工和增材制造专家（Farapack Polymers Ltd）。该项目将提供一个经过验证的供应链，在多个行业领域提供合适的示范产品，并为LS和HSS的有效商业化提供适当的开发计划。

This project will develop supply chain and full scale production capabilities for novel Additive Manufacturing Technologies based on laser sintering (LS) and high speed sintering (HSS) for application in three major industrial sectors within the UK economy. These include Fast Moving Consumer Goods (Unilever), Aerospace (BAE Systems) and Space (Cobham Technical Services). The manufacturing capability owned by Loughborough University will be developed and exploited by the consortium partners that comprise in addition to end-users, manufacturing machine capability developers (Xaar), product design speciality (Sebastian Conran Associates) and polymer processing and additive manufacturing specialists (Farapack Polymers Ltd) based at the University of Sheffield. The project will deliver a validated supply chain with suitable demonstrator products in multiple industry sectors and an appropriate exploitation plan for effective commercialisation of LS and HSS.