3D-printing of an elastic grinding tool with oriented abrasive granules

The project realisation includes several products:

• The technology of 3D-printing of elastic grinding tools with oriented abrasive granules
• Equipment for 3D-printing of elastic grinding tools with oriented abrasive granules
• An elastic grinding tool with oriented abrasive granules for finishing compound surfaces of products of mechanical engineering, automobile, wood, glass, ceramic, and building materials industries
• Cession of intellectual property rights

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

The technology allows:

For manufacturers:

• To reduce the production time by shortening drying time by 1.5 times due to the use of laser sintering
• To decrease the size of production areas and their costs due to the absence of large-scale drying shops
• To reduce the costs of materials due to the use of low-deficit abrasive materials and wastes of a production
• To achieve resource-saving using wastes of production and used-up abrasive tools as raw materials
• To reduce fuel and energy costs due to the reduction of the processing cycle, the size of production areas, and technological process energy costs
• To reduce the prime cost of the elastic grinding tool and enter the market with a competitive product with high value-added
• To carry out import substitution for the Republic of Belarus as the country doesn't have its production and 100% of currently used elastic grinding tools are imported
• To expand production co-operation and provide extractive, coating, cellulose, paper, and textile industries with stable purchase orders of raw materials.

For customers:

• Competitive price at the market of elastic grinding tools
• Improved performance:
  • Cutting ability is increased by 1.5 times due to the strict orientation of 3D-printed abrasive granules and the future realisation of the grinding process according to the well-controlled (not chaotic as before) blade processing
  • Wear resistance of the tool is increased by 1.3...1.5 times due to the use of the inner potential of physics and engineering properties that affect the tensile strength of oriented abrasive granules

Analogues:

• world: Grinding tools with lover performance are produced at Belgorod, Luga, and Chelyabinsk abrasive plants, which comprise 49.60% of the market. Stayer, Shenzhen Guangming, Jiangsu Fengmang Compound Material (China) - 19% of the market. 3М, KLINGSPOR (Germany) - 10.10% of the market. KARBOSAN (Turkey) - 9.20% of the market. MIRKA (Finland) - 7.10% of the market. SMIRDEX (Greece) - 4.90% of the market.
• our country: No analogues of the elastic grinding tools production. All the market is represented by 100% import.

We have:

• Fundamental research results
• R&D results
• Business plan
• Mock-up
• Patent of the Republic of Belarus
• 2000 USD - proprietary investments, which is 5% of a project unit cost

Suggested forms of co-operation:

• Venture funding
• Research and development agreement
• Joint venture
• Technology copyright sales

Necessary for the project realisation:

The volume of investments for purchasing components, production of a demonstration 3D printer installation, and the organization of a production site: 40 000 USD.

Estimated lead time and payback period:

• Project lead time - 1 year
• One unit payback period - 2.82 years