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On October 24, 2018, a meeting of representatives of the All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM) and French companies specializing in additive technologies was held at the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ESI GROUP, Dassault Systèmes, 3D CERAM, SAFRAN Additive Manufacturing, EDF, VOLUM-E and others participated in the meeting.

During the meeting, Svyatoslav Nerush, Head of laboratory of VIAM “Powder metallurgy and additive manufacturing” spoke about developments and achievements of VIAM in the field of additive technologies.

In particularly, he pointed out, that the institute had organized the first closed cycle of additive production in Russia. “The established infrastructure allows the institute annually to produce up to 190 tons of metal-powder compositions and to provide the needs of industrial enterprises of the Russian Federation by these compositions”, said the representative of VIAM.

As Svyatoslav Nerush stated, the key task of VIAM was the development of new generation materials taking into account the technological features of additive technologies, elaboration of growth technologies of details with qualification for the further transfer of technologies to industrial enterprises and production scaling.

He also gave examples of the implementation of parts made by the method of SLS into aircraft gas turbine engines and ground gas turbine units, and also spoke about the use of additive technologies to produce a small-sized gas turbine engine.

It should be added, that issues of cooperation between VIAM and French companies in the field of materials science support of works on selective laser melting and direct laser growing, providing metal powder compositions developed by VIAM for testing and implementing on AddUp and BeAM equipment were discussed at the meeting. The parties also discussed the possibility of visiting 3DAM CERAM by specialists of VIAM in order to get acquainted with scientific developments on manufacturing ceramic pastes, as well as an additive production site of Safran.