After limiting the supply due to the border, many enterprises discovered promising areas of import substitution for themselves. Thus, the Cherepovetsky Metallurgical Plant announced that he was independently prepared to produce the necessary spare parts. Nozzles, plunger, nozzles and other elements for their own complex. Severstal now produces on a 3D printer.

The device, which was launched back in July last year, manufactures parts made of metal powder. This raw material melts the SLM innovative technology laser (Selective Laser Melting). Moreover, according to the statement of officials of the enterprise, some of the parts received are 10 times cheaper, compared with foreign counterparts. It turns out that it is more profitable to establish our own production than to buy from foreign manufacturers.

Another advantage of 3D printing is the exact reproduction of equivalent technical properties, as well as if necessary, their correction for improving the product. Simple words, printing can be made from different alloys at the same time, which allows it to attach to the items of new properties, facilitate them or ensure greater strength.

Composition of the future product, its design, three-dimensional printing technique - all the necessary characteristics are set using a specialized program. The new printer allows you to change not only the outdoor outline of the details, but also filling.

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It is worth noting that the printer itself is designed by the Petersburg enterprise "Laser systems". The company has been in innovative developments in the field of laser technologies and optoelectronic devices for space, medical and environmental sectors. The company is famous for unique devices that have no analogues in the world.

It is not difficult to imagine the inspiration of Cherepovets Metallurgists: the prospects for import substitution on the metal cooling lines at the factory are wide open. The new approach will not depend on the large supply chain and repeatedly reduce the delivery time of parts.

The fact that the future belongs to things made on a 3D printer, have long been talking in the circles of innovators and investors. If, over the centuries, the masters took the original material and gave it the desired form, cutting off everything too much, then the new approach not only saves raw materials, but also simplifies the production process: the designs of any complexity are created without need to fix small parts to each other.

The grand development of innovation is definitely impressive. Outows in bewilderment are wondering: what's next? Is the domestic Cherepovets metallurgical production in our eyes enters the era, when only a 3D printer is enough to create a necessary part?

And then the second question appears: how close this industry is close to the technological coup? Give your answers in the comments.

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