#Industry News
GPAINNOVA Wins the TCT Post-Processing Award 2022 with DLyte eBlast
GPAINNOVA received yesterday evening the TCT Award in the Post-Processing category with its new DLyte eBlast, the first electro-blasting system based on projected electropolishing.
The company’s CEO and co-founder, Pau Sarsanedas, and his father and DLyte eBlast’s inventor, Marc Sarsanedas, picked up the trophy in a ceremony held in Birmingham, coinciding with the trade show TCT 3Sixty 2022.
GPAINNOVA’s Winner Project: the First Dry Electro-Blasting Solution
Launched in November 2021, DLyte eBlast has been especially created for surface finishing of large, heavy metal parts, or with complex geometries which are difficult to polish by immersion or require a localized finishing, such as welded areas. It is suitable for blind holes, slots, occluded areas and inner channels. DLyte eBlast can be used in three ways: manually, for low-volume, high-variety production, and for finishing small areas of the parts; semi-automatically, for pieces with low geometric complexity that can be treated with repetitive, simple movements, and in an automatic mode, thanks to a collaborative robot (cobot).
The Second GPAINNOVA’s TCT Post-Processing Award
This is not the first time that GPAINNOVA takes home the TCT Post-Processing Award. In fact, in September 2018, the business group was awarded this distinction thanks to its dry electrolyte process (DryLyte), patented the year before. Unlike traditional electropolishing methods, DryLyte does not use liquid as the electrolyte but instead uses ion transport via free solid bodies which enable the removal of material from only the peaks of roughness and without changing the part’s shape, tolerances or leaving micro-scratches on the surface.
On the other hand, GPAINNOVA’s DLyte eBlast was also shortlisted as a finalist in the Innovation Trophy 2022 of the 3D Print Lyon Exhibition 2022.
