Tag: additive manufacturing

To save time and costs during the production of aircraft components, Airbus Helicopters, headquartered in Donauwörth in Bavaria, recently turned to additive manufacturing. After manufacturing titanium components in the 3D printer, the next step is to separate them from their baseplate. The company uses a fully automatic bandsaw specially designed for use in the world of generative manufacturing.

Additive manufacturing is a new manufacturing technology to produce parts that are used in both research and production plants at BASF.

Lockheed Martin has embraced a 3-D printed titanium dome for satellite fuel tanks so big you can’t even put your arms around it. The 46-inch- (1.16-meter-) diameter vessel completed final rounds of quality testing in July, ending a multi-year development program to create giant, highpressure tanks that carry fuel on board satellites.

To further drive the adoption of 3D Printing technologies beyond prototyping to final parts production Henkel has joined Origin´s open materials platform.

Deutsche Edelstahlwerke (DEW) is now making a big push: as an established powder manufacturer for 3D printing, the SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH Group Company is speeding up the next stage of development with its Printdur metal powder portfolio.

The term “additive manufacturingâ€? encompasses many technologies; 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, Direct Digital Manufacturing, layered manufacturing and additive fabrication.

Tekna announced the market launch of new spherical aluminum alloy powders for additive manufacturing. The production of these aluminum alloy powders is supported by the plasma atomization technology developed by Tekna, and whose effectiveness has been proven, with several hundred tons of powder produced to date.

Boeing and Oerlikon, a technology and engineering group, signed a five-year collaboration agreement to develop standard materials and processes for metal-based additive manufacturing.

Inert has developed a new line of powder filtration systems designed for additive manufacturing and other industries that require collection and disposal of particles and particulate that may be reactive, corrosive, or otherwise require special handling considerations.

For many years, Schaeffler and DMG MORI have cooperated closely in a long-term and successful partnership. In their latest cooperation project the partners are developing Additive Manufacturing (AM)processes for rolling bearing components made of graded materials in small batch sizes using laser deposition welding.