Research services

Research services

Our service profile includes research and development services along the entire additive process chain. For this GMBU e.V. is equipped with modern industrial-scale and laboratory-scale manufacturing machines to produce application-specifically modified materials for additive manufacturing processes, to form them by extrusion to pellets or filaments, to process them additively and to test and characterize the materials and prototypes with repect to their application properties.

The offered services in the field of additive manufacturing include amongst others:

  • development of functional prototypes
  • conceptualizing small series
  • customer-specific material design: functionalizing, modification and optimization of materials
  • lab-scale production of filaments and pellets
  • material evaluation for additive manufacturing: processing properties, mechanical properties, layer adhesion, warping
  • material and application specific process optimization
  • processing of special materials: bio-based, reinforced with microfibres, continuous filament, high-temperature, elastomers, highly filled plastics
  • large-scale processing up to 1 m³