Mantle, the pioneer in metal 3D printing technology for toolmaking, announced the release of its 420 Stainless Steel material. This material addition improves toolmaking processes, enhancing speed and efficiency while reducing labour requirements, which is especially beneficial in industries such as medical that require corrosion-resistant tooling.
Mantle’s 420 Stainless Steel is chemically equivalent to traditional 420 stainless steel, which is renowned for its high strength, hardness, corrosion resistance, and polish ability. It is a preferred mould material for a wide range of tooling applications, including components with conformal cooling and medical device tooling. Mantle’s 420 Stainless Steel allows manufacturers to rapidly produce production-grade tooling during prototyping and product development, thereby shortening the time to produce steel tooling for validation part moulding by as much as 80%.
Mantle’s 420 Stainless Steel is especially beneficial for tooling applications that employ conformal cooling channels. These channels enable more efficient cooling than traditional cooling methods, improving moulding performance and reducing cycle times. Mantle’s 420 Stainless Steel has excellent corrosion resistance and eliminates the concern of conformal cooling channels clogging due to rust.
