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UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

Binder Jetting Metal Powder Additive Manufacturing System

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000
Value£351k
Awarded28 Aug 2017
Published20 Sept 2017
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£351ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Sir Henry Royce Centre of Materials Innovation are looking to procure a Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing for the manufacture of components from metallic materials and manufacturing research purposes.

The machine we seek should be based on a binder jetting technology (or equivalent) and should generate components that need subsequent processing by debinding and sintering.

The system will be housed in state of the art facilities in close proximity to the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.

Key requirements

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The machine we seek should be based

The machine we seek should be based on a binder jetting technology (or equivalent) and should generate components that need subsequent processing by debinding and sintering.

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