The leading Danish design brand VOLA is famous for its high-end faucets and interior fixtures full of Scandinavian taste and style. On the basis of superb craftsmanship, design expertise and new technology, VOLA and BASF Forward AM have introduced additive manufacturing technology in the production process, which greatly saves time and cost issues and achieves efficient and cost-effective Tool production. Currently, 10% of VOLA’s tools are made by additive manufacturing.
Challenge: produce robust tools at lower cost and time
VOLA continues to develop and test new products, and through improved assembly line tools, to ensure that the latest technology plays a role in its high-end product line. In this regard, Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Forward AM’s Ultrafuse® PET wire are just the right thing to play. For a long time, VOLA has relied on milling to produce steel, aluminum or plastic tools. This process is very time-consuming, costly, and requires workers to have superb skills, and sometimes even requires external professional companies to produce CAD design tools.
Solution: Use Ultrafuse® PET for 3D printing for fast, cost-effective tool production
Additive manufacturing helps greatly shorten this lengthy process. The digital technology of additive manufacturing opens up new possibilities to create shapes that cannot be produced by traditional production techniques.
VOLA uses Forward AM’s Ultrafuse® PET wire to give full play to the advantages of additive manufacturing. The high strength of the tool is very important in the assembly process of the machine tool. To ensure the high strength of the tool, the tool needs to be milled with aluminum, industrial-grade plastic or steel. Ultrafuse® PET can effectively meet the challenges of this process. The material has excellent dimensional stability, high toughness, and high temperature resistance, which can perfectly meet the requirements of VOLA.
After the transition to additive manufacturing, VOLA has been able to produce a variety of different tools in-house, and the production speed has been greatly accelerated, and the cost has been greatly reduced. (Overall, 10% of VOLA’s tools are now produced through additive manufacturing, rather than traditional milling processes.)
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