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与Sandvik合作伙伴,使用金属粉末促进活页夹喷气3D打印技术

领先的工业3D打印机提供商Exonehas announced a collaboration withSandvik添加剂制造推进其粘合剂喷气机3D打印过程。两家公司都将努力优化使用Binder Jet 3D打印的金属粉末的使用,Exone旨在通过协作为其工业客户群提供改进的粘合剂喷气处理解决方案。

Exone首席执行官约翰·哈特纳(John Hartner)对新计划表示:“我们很高兴宣布与Sandvik添加剂制造业的物质合作合作伙伴关系。Sandvik是一家世界一流的工程公司,对材料及其在各个行业的应用有广泛的了解。”

“我们期待通过这种新的合作来推进Exone的活页夹喷射过程,并创建新的解决方案,从而实现更广泛的客户采用。”

3D活页夹喷射打印头。通过Exone的照片
3D活页夹喷射打印头。通过Exone的照片

将Exone活页夹与Sandvik材料专业知识相结合

该协作计划将集中在资格和优化Sandvik的方面鱼鹰金属粉with ExOne’s binder jetting machines. Both companies will study how the powder and binder jetting technology interact with one another, as well as developing the 3D printing process settings. Furthermore, ExOne and Sandvik Additive Manufacturing will create post-processing heat treatments for stainless steels, tool steels and nickel alloys, before moving on to various other materials.

Exoneidentified Sandvik Additive Manufacturing, the AM arm of Swedish engineering group桑德维克, to help develop its binder jetting process due to the company’s capabilities in materials technology, metal powders, different AM-processes for metals and post-processing technologies. Sandvik recently, and effectively, demonstrated its高级生产技术, and will leverage its expertise across the additive manufacturing value chain, from metal powder to finished components, in its material collaboration with ExOne.

“This material collaboration will strengthen our ongoing R&D cooperation with ExOne even further,” stated Mikael Schuisky, VP and Head of R&D and Operations, Sandvik Additive Manufacturing. Sandvik currently has multipleExone粘合剂喷气机在其投资组合中, as well being a beta customer of ExOne’s newX1 25PRO, set to be showcased at RAPID + TCT this week. Schuisky continues:

“It also offers great opportunities to qualify our leading Osprey™ metal powders for the ExOne platform, to enhance end customer productivity and product performance.”

SEM images of Sandvik's Osprey gas-atomized metal powders. Top - Stainless steel powder for MIM. Bottom - refined, more uniform stainless steel for additive manufacturing. Images via Sandvik Osprey
SANDVIK的鱼鹰燃气原子粉末的SEM图像。顶部 - MIM的不锈钢粉。底部 - 精制,更均匀的不锈钢,用于增材制造。通过Sandvik Osprey的图像

开发活页夹喷射3D打印

最近,Exone朝着开发和推进其Binder Jet 3D打印技术方面取得了长足的进步。

The newX1 25PROis its latest metal binder jetting additive manufacturing system, utilizing the metal injection molding (MIM) powder-handling capabilities of the company’s INNOVENT+™ research 3D printer. It is leading the charge for ExOne among burgeoning binder jet competition across the industry.

2019年5月早些时候,该公司透露它正在与Oak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL)develop a new binder jet technologybenefiting both sand and metal 3D printers. The two organizations have been working together on binder jetting technology since 2015. Rick Lucas, ExOne’s Chief Technology Officer, comments:

“We believe these collaborative efforts will effectively and efficiently result in the establishment of new materials, binders and process developments, retaining our significant edge over competitors and other technologies in the industrial manufacturing space”.

exone的金属3D印刷零件。图像通过Exone
exone的金属3D印刷零件。图像通过Exone

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Featured image shows a 3D binder jetting print head. Photo via ExOne