Vaal University of Technology opens advanced manufacturing precinct
The Vaal University of Technology (VUT) this week unveiled its new advanced manufacturing precinct (AMP) to promote additive manufacturing development and develop scarce skills, research, innovation and technology transfer in South Africa.
More than R60-million worth of infrastructure had been commissioned as part of a sectoral industrial support strategy driven by the VUT's Technology Transfer and Innovation (TTI) Directorate, TTI executive director Professor Deon de Beer said in a statement.
“Many of the technology platforms commissioned are the only ones on the African continent,and international original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs), which now became industrial partners in this venture, are seeing the VUT's Technology Demonstration Centre as a gateway to the rest of South Africa and Africa,” he said.
This followed a significant grant in 2013 from the National Research Foundation’s Research Infrastructure Support Grants to cofund, along with VUT, the Voxeljet technology platforms to support the foundry industry.
The university said it was already assisting some of its equipment suppliers and OEMs to bridge into the rest of the continent, while engaging in innovative and cost-effective product development.
The initiative also enabled the university’s TTI and Technology Demonstration Centre, in collaboration with the Metallurgical Engineering Department, to support the foundry industry, de Beer concluded.
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