Volkmann Modular Powder Supply Stages Material in High Volumes

Volkmann USA’s Modular Powder Supply (MPS) was developed to help additive manufacturers safely manage metal powder storage. As production rates and volumes increase, the MPS provides an inline holding container that can be installed between the printing, sieving, and/or depowdering processes to quickly collect unused metal powder from a build box.

It also enables the printer to begin its next part without waiting for manual extraction, among other applications. Once collected, the recovered metal powders may be screened and reintroduced to the printing process or stored for future reuse.

Offered as a stand-alone unit or integrated with the company's automated PowTReX metal powder sieving station and/or depowdering station, the MPA features a Volkmann pneumatic vacuum conveyor with a stainless steel hopper and touchscreen controls, all set within a dust-tight housing.

The powder hopper holds 120 L as standard and may be custom designed to store other capacities. The metal powder storage system may be operated with tungsten, cobalt, silver powder, iron, stainless steel, alumina, nickel chrome, copper, titanium and other metallic powders in both normal air environments and under inert conditions.

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