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INDUSTRY NEWS
Safran Invests in Sintermat Deep-Tech Startup for Innovative Materials
with Sayens, a technology transfer acceleration company, as a
technical manager on the sintering platform.
The company is focused on industrializing the flash sintering process
for several industries. It recovers unusable industrial production
scrap and transforms it into new materials. The material
is transformed into powder that is then sintered, meaning that it is
compressed and an electrical current is passed through it. Some
parts can be produced in near net shape or even net shape.
For more info, see www.sinter-mat.com and www.safran-group.
com.
Sintermat, a French startup specialized in advanced
flash sintering to make parts out of magnetic,
conducting and other powders, has been bolstered
by an investment round supported by aerospace
company Safran Group, a leading developer of
propulsion technology for aviation. Safran Corporate
Ventures, the company's venture capital arm,
announced in June that it has made a joint investment
with partners in Sintermat, as part of a funding
round exceeding 6 million euros.
Sintermat has developed expertise in spark plasma
sintering (SPS), a process used to make parts out
of different types of powder. The powder metallurgy
process works with many types of materials including
conducting and magnetic materials, metals,
ceramic polymers, composites, even biomaterials. It
compacts them in a mold under high pressure and
heat to produce high-density, high-strength parts.
SPS allows the production of parts with complex
shapes and a homogeneous microstructure, which
makes them highly suited to Safran's requirements.
Safran will also be teaming up with Sintermat to
determine how the technology can be applied to
certain strategic parts for airplane and helicopter
engines, as well as aircraft equipment.
Eric Dalbiès
" This investment and our
technology partnership will
support Safran's research and
technology efforts, " said Eric
Dalbiès, Safran senior executive
vice president, research
& technology and Innovation,
" especially concerning the
materials and production processes
for the components on
tomorrow's aircraft engines,
reflecting the disruptive technologies needed to support
the development of a more sustainable aviation
industry. "
Headquartered in Montbard, an historic center
of metallurgy in eastern France, Sintermat was
established in 2016 by researcher Foad Naimi, after
about a decade of research in the laboratories of the
University of Burgundy. He spent 10 years working
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