Jun 1, 2016 · Aluminium has emerged as a pivotal material in Additive Manufacturing, revolutionising industries such as aerospace, automotive, and beyond. Overcoming early processing challenges, advances in AM machines and alloy designs are unlocking aluminium’s potential. Today, its lightweight, high strength ...

Dec 10, 2024 · Additive Manufacturing Research (AM Research), a provider of industry analysis, forecasting and data for the AM sector, has published a new edition of its market study titled Additive Manufacturing in Military and Defense 2024, written by Tali Rosman.While the original (2023) edition saw $300 million in direct DoD spending in 2023, AM Research reports an $800 million market in 2024, marking ...

Jan 16, 2025 · Renishaw, headquartered in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, UK, reports it has been supporting aircraft maintenance provider Tronosjet Manufacturing based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, to boost its Additive Manufacturing capabilities and achieve regulatory compliance for metal aerospace parts.

Nov 19, 2024 · Collaborations. HP has also been taking part in collaborations with ArcelorMittal and Eaton. With ArcelorMittal, HP has combined its own metal Additive Manufacturing experience with ArcelorMittal’s sustainable steel in an effort to reduce production costs, expand material options, and drive broader adoption of additively manufactured steel in …

Aug 5, 2024 · SpaceX, Hawthorne, California, USA, revealed its Raptor 3 engine for the first time in early August. Produced using advanced manufacturing technologies including – extensively – metal Additive Manufacturing, the company reports that its engineers have been able to move many external parts inward, consolidating and simplifying the design.

Nov 14, 2024 · MX3D, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been awarded “Outstanding Development in Welded Fabrication” by the American Welding Society (AWS) for the MX3D Bridge, it’s metal additively manufactured bridge for the City of Amsterdam installed in 2021.. Past winners of this prestigious award include the Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon Skywalk, the New York One World Trade Center, the Mars ...

Nov 21, 2024 · The evolution of lasers for Powder Bed Fusion. Modern Powder Bed Fusion machines for metal AM generally employ single mode, ytterbium-doped (Yb), fibre lasers with an emission wavelength of nominally ~1,070 nm, and they’re often paired with two-, three- and even four-axis galvo-based scanners.

Jan 16, 2025 · EOS GmbH, based in Krailling, Germany, a manufacturer of both polymer and metal powder bed Additive Manufacturing systems, has announced the installation of its 5,000 th industrial AM machine. The milestone machine was installed at Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing (KAM), a long-time customer of EOS located in Statesville, North Carolina, USA.

Dec 11, 2024 · In a recent paper published by Scripta Materialia, researchers from the University of Toronto demonstrated a new strategy to control the microstructure in Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) through tuning melt pool overlaps, without changing energy densities and scan patterns. Using 316L stainless steel as an example, the team generated a wide range of grain sizes and morphologies.

Dec 18, 2024 · During the 2024 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, technology from Meltio, based in Linares, Spain, was used to additively manufacture a critical component for use on the USS Somerset, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock of the United States Navy.