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PODCAST: Michael Fuller of Conflux Technology on additive manufacturing and the thermal challenges facing Advanced Air Mobility

Our next pod­cast is now live! This week, we were delight­ed to wel­come Michael Fuller, Founder and CEO of Con­flux Tech­nol­o­gy.

In 2015 Con­flux emerged from the inno­va­tion hotbed of Euro­pean F1 motor­sport. This is where Michael worked for more than 15 years as a senior engi­neer, design­ing cham­pi­onship-win­ning For­mu­la One, World Ral­ly and Le Mans pro­to­type race cars.

Oper­at­ing in such a demand­ing indus­try – and expe­ri­enc­ing the restric­tions of heat exchang­er per­for­mance – pushed Michael to think beyond the tra­di­tion­al bound­aries of ther­mal tech­nol­o­gy. He devised a con­cept for util­is­ing met­al addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing (AM) to fun­da­men­tal­ly reimag­ine the design, man­u­fac­ture and per­for­mance of heat exchang­ers mov­ing for­ward. In 2017 Con­flux deliv­ered its first patent­ed AM heat exchang­er and changed the future of heat exchange tech­nol­o­gy for­ev­er.

In this episode, Michael shares with us the rea­sons why he set up Con­flux and goes into detail why the com­pa­ny is one of the pio­neers in heat exchange and addi­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing.

He talks about how this tech­nol­o­gy can play a key role in the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, the ther­mal chal­lenges which com­pa­nies in the mar­ket are fac­ing today, and what Con­flux is doing to solve these issues.

Click on the Play but­ton below to lis­ten to the episode, which is also avail­able on whichev­er pod­cast plat­form you use.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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