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development of AM parts has often been an issue for the<br />
company. However, the President and CEO of JAMPT<br />
Corporation, Noritaka Yasuda managed and promoted<br />
AM projects with JAMPT’s clients with his prior extensive<br />
expertise and business relationship in machinery division at<br />
a general trading company. Today, his background and<br />
business relationships are extensively helping JAMPT to<br />
excel and promote AM projects. Additionally, in the last<br />
year, Noritaka and his team have successfully installed AM<br />
parts into a vehicle which was launched to space. This was<br />
a big milestone for Japanese AM market. Furthermore, the<br />
torchbearer CEO looks ahead to come up with more real<br />
applications to develop with JAMPT’s clients from various<br />
industries.<br />
Standing Apart with Uniqueness<br />
In the industry evolving with a rapid pace, JAMPT knows<br />
how to stand apart from other market players. One of its<br />
biggest strengths in the business is capability of making raw<br />
material metal powder produced by Plasma Rotating<br />
Electrode Process (PREP), which is the best fit to AM.<br />
Currently, most entities in the AM industry use traditional<br />
metal powder, which was utilized in the historic powder<br />
metallurgy industry, such as sintering. However, the team of<br />
JAMPT believes that this traditional powder is not<br />
optimized for AM as AM process, or <strong>3D</strong> printer ideally<br />
requires sphericity, satellite-free, and less-gas pore, which is<br />
almost realized only by PREP powder.<br />
Apart from that, the firm’s partnership with KOIWAI as a<br />
34% shareholder is also a major factor making it a muscular<br />
body, as KOIWAI is the pioneer of AM business in Japan.<br />
Started from a sand mold <strong>3D</strong> printer in 2007, KOIWAI<br />
embarked to metal <strong>3D</strong> in 2012, further, in having been there<br />
in conjuncture of establishment of JAMPT, KOIWAI<br />
dispatches its skilled engineers to JAMPT today.<br />
“<br />
Staircase to Reach New Heights of Success<br />
Noritaka wants JAMPT to be useful as a trustworthy<br />
development partner for customers seeking to develop<br />
practical and mass-producible products utilizing AM<br />
technologies. There are two major things, which are helping<br />
JAMPT to achieve Noritaka’s desired heights and making it<br />
stand ahead in the space it is operating.<br />
First is JAMPT’s relation with Tohoku University. JAMPT<br />
works closely with Tohoku University’s Institute of<br />
Material Research (IMR) to deliver a rigid technical support<br />
system. Being a leading Japanese research institute of<br />
metal, IMR plays a vital role in solving customers’<br />
challenges from an academic standpoint. Moreover, the<br />
university also supports JAMPT’s approach of working on<br />
the functionality of parts with academic backing along with<br />
focusing on parts for manufacturability and costeffectiveness..<br />
Notably, this technical relationship with<br />
Tohoku University has also enabled JAMPT to optimize<br />
manufacturing parameter settings even further and develop<br />
high-quality AM parts.<br />
The second thing that helps JAMPT moving ahead is that<br />
its team utilizes the business network of a leading global<br />
trading company—Sojitz Corporation—to explore the AM<br />
market, following the newest trend of AM, and approaching<br />
to potential clients all over the world. Furthermore, to serve<br />
its clients the best, JAMPT always works with a clientoriented<br />
joint AM parts development mindset. This though<br />
system helps it’s the team to make sure that optimized<br />
design AM parts are not created just out of their mere<br />
imagination, but the idea also fully aligns with the clients’<br />
expectation.<br />
As Japan’s first metal AM service<br />
bureau, JAMPT is equipped with<br />
the latest equipment and full production<br />
<strong>3D</strong> printing capabilities.<br />
Noritaka Yasuda<br />
President & CEO<br />
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