Metal Additive Manufacturing
Metal additive manufacturing is the fastest growing area of industrial 3D printing and is continuing on its disruptive journey, overcoming major challenges and seeing faster movement into true serial production applications.
This trend is spurring more healthy growth in the segment, despite temporary slowdowns experienced at the end of 2016. Now the metal additive manufacturing market appears to be entering its next major phase of growth, with the established area of metal powder bed fusion technologies undergoing major changes to address costs and volumes limitations, and an emerging market coalescing around new bound metal printing technologies.
Relevant Initiatives in this metal additive manufacturing include end-to-end process optimization for both powder bed (SLM, EBM) and powder fed processes (DED, LMD) by all major manufacturers including GE (Concept Laser and Arcam), EOS, 3D Systems, SLM Solutions, Trumpf, DMG Mori and more. Another interesting area of growth is the development of production-ready metal binder jetting technologies and bound metal technologies from major new entry players such as Desktop Metal, HP and GE – along with polymer market leader Stratasys’ own initiatives.
Latest metal additive manufacturing news:
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ADDere, the metal AM arm of Wisconsin-based Midwest Engineered Systems (MWES), has demonstrated how its Laser Wire Additive Manufacturing (LWAM) technology is a viable solution for large-scale metal 3D printing. The company says its technology is capable of building large-scale, high-mass components for industries such as aerospace, energy, marine, defense and…
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Research teams and companies around the globe are investigating ways to improve additive manufacturing at all points in the process chain—from materials and process parameters, to the printing hardware and beyond. A recent development out of the RMIT University’s School of Engineering could lead to improvements in powder-based metal 3D…
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HiETA Technologies Ltd has secured investment from Meggitt (UK) Ltd, a subsidiary of Meggitt PLC, a leading international company specializing in high-performance components and subsystems for the aerospace, defense and selected energy markets. The investment will accelerate the development of the next generation of high-performance and lightweight thermal systems across HiETA’s…
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The Virtual Foundry, a manufacturer of metal filaments, has named Chicago-based Sapphire 3D as the first certified sintering partner for its plastic-infused metal filaments. Using a combination of The Virtual Foundry’s Filamet products and Sapphire 3D’s heat treating technology, users can produce high-quality and high-purity metal components. The Virtual Foundry…
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LHC, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, is the largest and most complex machine ever built by humans. While CERN is known as a user of AM for prototyping, only recently did the center start to look at AM for the actual production of parts. One of these parts…
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Fabrisonic, a specialist in solid-state metal AM, has once again teamed up with Luna Innovations, a manufacturer of medical, telecommunications, energy and defense technologies, to showcase the potential of its Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) process. In this particular project, the partners were enlisted by NASA to gather data from cryogenic…
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Metal AM company Velo3D is entering the Japanese market through an exclusive distribution agreement with Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC), which is owned for 50% by Mitsubishi Chemical. The company, a provider of welding solutions and industrial gases, will represent Velo3D and its metal AM offering (including the Sapphire 3D…
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MX3D, an Amsterdam-based metal 3D printing company, has revealed a collaboration with Japanese architecture and engineering firm Takenaka. Together, the companies designed a Structural Steel Connector, which MX3D then 3D printed using its large-scale robotic printing technology, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). In the 3D printing world, MX3D is probably…
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Norwegian Defense Research spinoff Fieldmade and the Swiss security company Urban Alps are cooperating to 3D print high-security Stealth Keys anywhere and anytime. Customers in the military or energy sector can order Stealth Keys on demand and have them delivered within a day, via remote Fieldmade microfactories. Using Fieldmades microfactories, Urban…
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Metal Point is a new center inside the IMPACT LABS 3D Printing Center, completing the many capabilities of the polymer/plastic center by opening the door on metal 3D printing. Through a millionnaire investment from Thyssenkrupp, which brought two DMP metal AM machines from 3D Systems among others, the new metal 3D printing…
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