Nidec Rebrands Additive Division to Advanced Manufacturing Tech

Nidec Machine Tool America announced March 12 that it would rebrand its Additive Manufacturing unit to “Advanced Manufacturing Technologies,” which will include the company’s additive metal manufacturing system as well as the company’s laser micromachining and room-temperature wafer bonding machines.

Lambda, Nidec’s metal additive manufacturing system, uses additive manufacturing to print large-scale metal components. It will now exist under an umbrella with the company’s Ablaser and Bond Meister platforms. Ablaser laser micromachining uses lasers to drill holes as small as 27 micrometers in silicon, silicon carbide, and ceramics without causing thermal distortion, while Bond Meister’s room-temperature wafer bonding machines join wafer through surface activation using a vacuum environment, fusing components used in made of gallium nitride, gallium arsenic, and silicon without thermal distortion for use in microelectronics.

In a statement, Tyson Gregory, sales manager of the advanced manufacturing technologies group, said the new grouping better reflects Nidec’s present and future in emerging machining technologies.

“This expansion reflects where the industry is heading and where we stand as a company,” Gregory said. “By bringing these specialized systems together, we are making it easier for our North American customers to leverage our full suite of solutions.”