Burloak Technologies, a division of Samuel, Son & Co. and one of Canada’s leading providers of advanced additive manufacturing services, has announced that their Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Oakville, Ontario is now fully operational. Not to be confused with HP’s new 150,000 square-foot 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence or the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence, the Burloak facility covers 65,000 square feet and is filled to the brim with state-of-the-art 3D printing systems.
Clients are invited to come and develop products from the prototyping phase all the way to production so the $104 million Center is equipped with pretty much every type of metal 3D printing technology, including electron beam wire, laser powder bed fusion, directed energy laser fusion, and electron beam powder bed. Post-process services are also available, from heat treatments to CNC machining. With all that equipment and expertise, there’s no metal part they can’t fabricate.
“The approach we are taking in bringing a customer’s application to market is unique in the industry, with the most complete collection of capabilities, equipment, and resources all under one roof,” said Peter Adams, President and Co-founder of Burloak Technologies. “With so many complex decisions and technical considerations, Burloak delivers technology-agnostic solutions to provide customers the fastest, most direct path to success in 3D printing for their project. We start by helping a customer build a business case, collaborating on design and prototyping, and finally, by helping to move to full-scale production.”
An additional 20,000 square feet was added to the original plan to accommodate serial production capabilities to help customers transition products out of the proof-of-concept phase, and Burloak is already a supplier to aerospace and energy companies as they’re AS9100D, ISO9001 Certified, so they have plenty of experience engineering and fabricating critical components for end-use applications.
The announcement comes after Burloak launches AM-Works, a collaborative program that assists manufacturers integrate 3D printing into existing production lines. Adams explains, “Using a collaborative, in-depth evaluation and learning approach, our AM-Works Program helps customers transform their manufacturing processes, build a business case for additive, and efficiently move their projects into scalable production.”