Postprocessing

Metal

Why AM Leads to Internal Production for Collins Aerospace (Includes Video)

A new Charlotte-area center will provide additive manufacturing expertise and production capacity for Collins business units based across the country, allowing the company to guard proprietary design and process details that are often part of AM.

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Metal

AM Sister Brand Modern Machine Shop Promotes Brent Donaldson to Editor-In-Chief

Experienced writer and editor takes the reins for media brand which has reported on the CNC machining and technology industry for nearly 100 years.

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Casting

AM 101: What Is Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP)? (Includes Video)

Hot isostatic pressing has long been used for metal castings, but is now being applied as a valuable method for closing porosity in metal 3D printed parts.

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Sustainability

Plasmatreat Openair-Plasma Offers Safe Surface Cleaning, Activation

The atmospheric plasma solutions include high-efficiency plasma cleaning, activation and nanocoating of surfaces.

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Postprocessing

It’s HIP to Be Additive: Advancing 3D Printed Metals with Hot Isostatic Pressing

Aalberts Surface Technologies-Accurate Brazing is preparing to serve additive manufacturing tomorrow by proving out HIPing recipes at its Center of Excellence today.

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Automation

Materialise Expands CO-AM Platform With 7 Technology Partners, Magics Integration

With the addition of the seven new partners, Materialise says it delivers on the promise to connect and automate all steps of the AM process, including automating design, labeling, machine monitoring and postprocessing.

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Software

Saint-Gobain, AMT Partner to Fuel 3D Printing Postprocessing Growth

The companies will apply the Norton application technologies and systems approach to enable the development of a Technology Upgrade Package (TUP) for AMT’s PostPro chemical vapor smoothing (CVS) process.

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Sustainability

AMT’s PostPro Pure Offers Sustainable Vapor Smoothing Chemistry

Formnext 2022: This FDA-approved chemistry offers a green approach for vapor smoothing 3D printed parts.

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Repair

Aircraft Engine MRO: How Additive Manufacturing Plus Robotic Finishing Will Expand Capacity for Blade Repair

AM offers the chance to bring fast, automated processing to individualized, part-by-part restoration of turbomachinery. A cell developed by Acme Manufacturing and Optomec is able to automatically repair 85,000 unique aircraft engine blades per year.

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Postprocessing

PostProcess, EOS Create Partnership for Automated Depowdering

The strategic partnership is designed to enable more sustainable automation through the additive manufacturing workflow.

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Airtech
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