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FUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER

NICHOLS PORTLAND

LOW-COST TITANIUM VIA PM

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Published by Inovar Communications Ltd

Slovak company GEVORKYANfinalizes investment in AdditiveManufacturing and increasescapacities in PM, MIM and HIP.

www.gevorkyan.sk/en - marketing@gevorkyan.sk - Továrenská 504, 976 31 Vlkanová, Slovakia

With a total of 160 employees, including14 engineers in the R&D department, develop-ments have been made in robotic automa-tion and digitalization of the company. A total of 21 robots were installed in the production and quality departments. There are plans to add a further 6 to 8 robots by the end of 2019. A special software devel-oped by the company in co-operation with its suppliers enables managers to monitor production online via 30 video cameras that are accessed through mobile devices. These combined factors have increased the company turnover by 24%, whilst at the same time reducing staff by 15%. Gevorkyan is positive about its future business development, with increased resources for R&D, Sales and Marketing, the company continues to attract new business with its strategy to diversify its customer base. Automotive is targeted to represent 40% of the business.

GEVORKYAN was established in Slovakia in 1996 by an Armenian immigrant. The family has a 50 year history in innovation, development and production of Powder Metallurgy components. It supplies PM and MIM parts to global customers in automotive, locks and security systems, hand tools, oil industry, agriculture, firearms, medical, cosmetics and many other industrial products.

After several years of experience in 3D printing for non-metallic parts for internal company use, Gevorkyan has invested in metal AM machines for use in tool produc-tion (mainly MIM) in Gevorkyan’s tool-mak-ing subsidiary company, GPM Tools. Prior to founding this company, A. Gevork-yan worked as a military aircraft engineer specializing in materials. Later on, he established the first privately owned PM plant in Ukraine. He strongly believes that the company is capable to use Additive Manufacturing technology for aerospace applications. The company portfolio consists of 2000 various types of part, adding about 130 brand-new components every year.