TCKT – Transfercenter für Kunststofftechnik GmbH

Franz-Fritsch-Straße 11, 4600 Wels, Austria

https://www.tckt.at/en/

Number of employees: 35

Contact information:

Additive Manufacturing Lab

Christoph Strasser

christoph.strasser@tckt.at

+43 7242 2088 1022

AM Technologies

Polymer AM technologies:

Material Extrusion (MEX):

Fused filament fabrication (FFF)
Fused granulate fabrication (FGF)
Continuous filament fabrication (CFF)

Vat Photopolymerization (VPP):

Stereolithography (SLA)
Masked Stereolithography (MSLA – LCD)

Other AM technologies:

Ceramics AM
Metals AM (by MEX)

Materials and characterisation

Materials:

Metals:

Compounds with aluminium, copper, tin, special alloys

Polymers:

PLA, PETg, ABS, ASA, PA(6.6, 12), TPU >=85 Shore A, PP, POM, Wax based, LDPE, BIO-based PA, PLA-PHB, and many other in-house precompounded material compositions

Other Material Types:

UV-sensitive resin for mSLA & SLA

Testing equipment:

Mechanical testing equipment (static & dynamic tensile, flexural, impact, etc.)
Thermal testing equipment (DSC, TGA, MFR, HKR, IR-spectorscopy plate-plate rheometer, etc.)
Optical testing equipment (stereo-microscopy, macro IR-camera, SEM, CT, UV-VIS macro camera (polymer strand widening) etc.)
Physical testing equipment (density, HDT, shore hardness, flameability UL94, wheatering/altering/climate chambers, etc.)

Post-processing equipment:

Specimen CNC-mill, lathe, motorized rotational microtome, grinding and polishing machine, etc.

Quality certifications:

We are accredited for some, but not all of the test methods we use, but be assured that the quality of the results is always at a highest level for all of the tests carried out at TCKT, regardless of the accreditation status of a particular test.

Services

Key competences:

Mechanical-, thermal-, rheological-, microscopic-, other analysis
Specimen preparation, material development, extrusion (filament, flat & blow film, fiber reinforced tapes), composite manufacturing (AFP, heat/cooling press, autoclave, diaphragma-thermo forming)

AM-related projects:

AiProMex – FFG national project: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/5121023
surface4motion – FFG national project: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/5124152
sustainableSLS – FFG national project: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/4303685
ThermoMelt4PA – FFG national project: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/3701228
SHReC – FFG national project: https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/3337097

Key publications and patents:

C. Strasser, B. Liedl, C. Burgstaller; Material characterization and performance evaluation of BIO-based plastics in FFF 3D-printing versus injection molding processes; BiPoCo 2024; Esztergom, HU
N. Moser, C. Strasser, A. Tanda, V.-M. Archodoulaki, C. Burgstaller; Influence of printing direction and filler orientation on the thermal conductivity of 3D printed heat sinks; Polymer Engineering and Science
C. Strasser, C. Burgstaller; 3D printing on unidirectional PA6 tapes and their effect on the mechanical properties; PM15; Bratislava; 2023
C. Strasser, C. Burgstaller; Influence of process parameters on the porosity of 3D printed components by fused filament fabrication; PPS 38; St. Gallen; 2023
M. Katschnig, J. Wallner, T. Janics, C. Burgstaller, W. Zemann, C. Holzer; Biofunctional Glycol-Modified Polyethylene Terephthalate and Thermoplastic Polyurethane Implants by Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing for Medical 3D Maxillofacial Defect Reconstruction; Polymers 12 (8), 1751

Informal trainings:

Trainer at WIFI Salzburg for certified additive manufacturing expert (https://www.wifisalzburg.at/kurs/21741x-zertifizierung-certified-additive-manufacturing-expert)

Contact person:

Christoph Strasser (christoph.strasser@tckt.at)

Services offered:

Technical Consulting
Access to AM Equipment
Prototyping Services
Design Optimization
Support with funding applications (national & international)

Target groups:

Start-ups
Scale-ups
Established SMEs
Large Companies
Research Institutions

Type of services provided on the market:

Prototyping
Tooling
Spare Parts
Design for AM
Product development with focus on material decision - manufacturing and scaling up models
Material characterisation & -testing

Description of industry services:

Some funding projects in various areas with national and international companies.

Material recycling capabilities

Metal detector Quickstron 03 R
flakealyser (selfbuilt continuous plastic flake analyser via NIR)
Shredder Wittman (small-big)
Knife/centrifugal/planetary mill
Hot air dryer
Melt filtration
Compounder
Kneading trials