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Swiss Plasma Polishing – Best Metal Finishing

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Projektdaten

  • Projekt-Nr: GRS-091/23 
  • Förderbeitrag: CHF 50'000.00 
  • Bewilligung: 20.02.2024 
  • Dauer: 10.2024 - 03.2025 
  • Handlungsfeld:  First Ventures, seit 2018

Projektleitung

Projektbeschreibung

Polishing metals is a crucial process with many advantages in various industries. Due to the limitations of mechanical polishing methods, the most common alternative is electrochemical polishing. But this requires harmful chemicals, posing a risk to workers and the environment. Therefore, we want to offer a machine that utilizes plasma electrolytic polishing with a jet (PEP-Jet) to provide an environmentally friendly and non-toxic solution. Using an electrolyte jet, we achieve different polishing finishings on the same workpiece and polish only the necessary areas, thus saving energy and time. With PEP-Jet, we achieve even lower surface roughness in less time than electrochemical polishing. Our PEP-Jet machine is fully customizable with add-ons such as a robot or a PEP bath to fit the customer’s requirements best.

Stand/Resultate

Within the scope of an Innosuisse project, we developed the PEP-Jet technology and built a fully working prototype. Our experience allowed us to optimize the polishing and automate the process. Together with First Ventures, we aim to develop an industrial machine for PEP-Jet polishing. The polishing machine offers a broad application across various industries. As a first step, we want to build a Minimum Viable Product to test the functionalities and allow for potential improvements to the machine - enabling us to offer polishing as a service for customer acquisition and collecting their feedback.

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Am Projekt beteiligte Personen

Yan Scholl, Project leader, LinkedIn
Adel Ghezri, Project member, LinkedIn
Cédric Bessire , Advisor

Letzte Aktualisierung dieser Projektdarstellung  24.05.2024