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Cumberland Additive Acquires Stratasys Direct Manufacturing Metals Operations, Doubles Metal AM Capacity
The agreement also expands and diversifies Cumberland’s material offerings in aluminum, copper and other metal materials.
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Dyndrite, Constellium, Elementum 3D, Sandvik Establish Materials Consortium for 3D Metal Printing
This joint effort aims to make laser bed power fusion (LPBF) powder parameters and related testing data for common materials freely and publicly available to end users, enabling increased knowledge sharing, better outcomes, and faster adoption of materials and techniques.
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8 Cool Parts From Formnext 2023: The Cool Parts Show #65
New additive manufacturing technologies on display at Formnext were in many cases producing notable end-use components. Here are some of the coolest parts we found at this year’s show.
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Inspection Method to Increase Confidence in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Researchers developed a machine learning framework for identifying flaws in 3D printed products using sensor data gathered simultaneously with production, saving time and money while maintaining comparable accuracy to traditional post-inspection. The approach, developed in partnership with aerospace and defense company RTX, utilizes a machine learning algorithm trained on CT scans to identify flaws in printed products.
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Farsoon Flight 403P Dual-Laser Platform Offers High-Temp Plastic LPBF
Formnext 2023: Farsoon’s 403P Series offers a versatile, powerful platform for plastic laser sintering that can achieve two full industrial-scale builds (cylinder size 400 × 400 × 540 mm) within 24 hours.
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DMG MORI: Build Plate “Pucks” Cut Postprocessing Time by 80%
For spinal implants and other small 3D printed parts made through laser powder bed fusion, separate clampable units resting within the build plate provide for easy transfer to a CNC lathe.
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Flexible Bellows Made Through Metal 3D Printing: The Cool Parts Show #64
Can laser powder bed fusion create metal parts with controlled flexibility? We explore an example in this episode of The Cool Parts Show.
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AMALLOY Is UAE’s First Locally Developed 3D Printing Alloy
The Technology Innovation Institute says its AMALLOY aluminum alloy powder registers 33% greater strength without compromising on ductility when compared to commercially available AlSi10Mg alloys.
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Multimodal Powders Bring Uniform Layers, Downstream Benefits for Metal Additive Manufacturing
A blend of particle sizes is the key to Uniformity Labs’ powders for 3D printing. The multimodal materials make greater use of the output from gas atomization while bringing productivity advantages to laser powder bed fusion and, increasingly, binder jetting.
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Video: Multimodal Powders for Metal 3D Printing
Rather than uniform particle diameters, multimodal powders combine particles of different sizes. In this video, how and why Uniformity Labs produces multimodal metal powders for additive manufacturing.
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