A research alliance of the University of Technology’s Rapido prototyping unit, Downer’s Mineral Technologies and the Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC) has reached the one-year milestone in a project revolutionising the way mining products are manufactured using additive manufacturing/3D printing.

This project is exploring bespoke 3D printing technologies for precision-engineered mineral separation and mining equipment. Alex de Andrade, Associate Professor with UTS, and Mineral Technologies Global Manager, Sales, Equipment and Technology said that with the first year now complete, the team has achieved green lights at all milestones including budget, innovation, collaboration and safety reviews.

“In the first year, we designed a small printer and machinery code and printed a scaled version of our selected spiral model. We are now into the cost and wear testing comparisons and in parallel we are building the full-scale bespoke prototype printer,” he said. Hervé Harvard is the Director at UTS Rapido and ProtoSpace, […]

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