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The market for specialist metal additive manufacturing (AM)services is rapidly evolving as more
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Dear Industry Expert,
The market for specialist metal additive manufacturing (AM)services is rapidly evolving as more and more companies realise the advantages which metal additive manufacturing offers over more traditional design and manufacturing techniques. More... |
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Venturing into metal additive manufacturing
Metal AM company 3D Metalforge was founded in Singapore at the end of 2016. A sister company of 3D Matters, one of South East Asia’s fast-growing additive manufacturers, the company was established in response to rapidly increasing demand for high accuracy three-dimensional metal part manufacturing. Industrial customer requirements for 3D metal printing services are changing dramatically in the region, from a predominance of short-run prototyping and one-off model-making to more volume production of end-use parts. More... |
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Additive manufacturing, a driver of thoughtful change
Additive manufacturing is one of the hottest topics for designers and manufacturers today. It has tremendous potential to influence products designs in many industries. To those who can benefit from it must take advantage of this technological advancement, whilst others need to brainstorm ways that perhaps could help them out in one way or another. Markus Lindemann, Head of Laser Technology Asia Pacific, TRUMPF shares his proficiency in additive manufacturing and encourages customers to have an open mind set.
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Efficient and flexible laser deposition welding
3D generating or additive manufacturing has the potential to revolutionise present design guidelines and manufacturing processes. OSCAR PLT GmbH makes an important contribution to this change with its new development of the coaxial direct diode laser ProFocus. With a laser power of 1kW and six single laser beams which are arranged coaxially around the material feed, ProFocus can be used flexibly for deposition welding with powder. More...
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Headstand for the perfect shaft
To save time and costs during the production of aircraft components, Airbus Helicopters, which is headquartered in Donauwörth in Bavaria, has recently turned to additive manufacturing. After manufacturing the titanium components in the 3D printer, the next step is to separate them from their baseplate. This is done using the fully automatic KASTOwin amc bandsaw. This machine has been designed for use in the world of generative manufacturing.
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Hot isostatic press for additive manufacturers
Quintus Technologies introduced a new Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) that will accelerate the additive manufacturing process by reducing the number of steps in the production line. Equipped with Quintus’ proprietary Uniform Rapid Cooling, the new model QIH 60 M URC combines heat treatment and cooling in a single process known as High Pressure Heat Treatment (HPHT), for faster throughput, higher work piece quality and energy savings. More...
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Revolutionary hybrid production
With the hybrid additive manufacturing systems of the Lumex range, MATSUURA unifies selective laser sintering (SLS) and high-speed milling (HSM) into one machine. Through this combination of laser sintering and high-speed milling, components can be fully processed on one machine. Extra finishing work by means of other processing methods on other machines is only necessary where there are special requirements. More...
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Five-sided manufacturing of large workpieces
Okuma sets standards with the new MCR-S (Super). In terms of accuracy, productivity and flexibilities, the new double column machining centre opens new possibilities for manufacturers. Combining several high-end features, the machine tool is perfectly suitable for machining press dies to the highest standards. The machine also unites subtractive and additive manufacturing methods allowing for process-intensive production. More...
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