Technology and Sourcing Guide 2023: Additive Manufacturing
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, simplifies the moldmaking process by making mold inserts, mold components, end-use parts and ancillary equipment. Access this exclusive, online-only content, including a suppliers list, AM products and more.
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MoldMaking Technology’s online database offers more than 1,000 manufacturers, distributors and suppliers for more than 200 product and service categories that you employ daily. To keep this information current, MMT surveys and updates its supplier database every spring with the latest company contact information and product/service offerings for 11 categories, including Additive Manufacturing (AM).
Every year, the Technology Review and Sourcing Guide includes a portion of that database listed in sourcing grids tailored to match suppliers with their respective product/service offerings along with a sample of product releases that the magazine has featured — in print and/or online — since the last July issue.
This year’s Additive Manufacturing content is exclusively online-only. These are the companies from this section:
- 3D Hybrid Solutions — Seal Beach, CA, 309-264-4834
- 3D Systems — Rock Hill, SC, 803-326-3900
- Absolute Machine Tools Inc. — Lorain, OH, 440-960-6911
- AddiFab — Palo Alto, CA, 650-526-8121
- AddUp Inc. — Cincinnati, OH, 513-745-4510
- Arburg Inc. — Rocky Hill, CT, 860-667-6500
- BeAM Machines — Cincinnati, OH, 513-745-4510
- Centorr — Nashua, NH, 603-595-7233
- CGTech — Irvine, CA, 949-753-1050
- Cimatron — Cincinnati, OH, 877-596-9700
- DMG MORI USA Inc. — Hoffman Estates, IL, 847-593-5400
- EnvisionTEC — Dearborn, MI, 313-436-4300
- EOS North America — Novi, MI, 877-388-7916
- Evolve Additive Solutions — Minnetonka, MN, 952-314-2061
- ExOne — North Huntingdon, PA, 724-863-9663
- Fabrisonic — Columbus, OH, 614-688-5197
- Formlabs — Somerville, MA, 617-702-8476
- GE Additive — West Chester, OH, 844-202-3865
- GF Machining Solutions LLC — Lincolnshire, IL, 847-913-5300
- Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies — McKinney, TX, 214-530-2334
- International Mold Steel Inc. — Hebron, KY, 859-342-6000
- Mantle — San Francisco, CA, 415-650-7464
- Matsuura Machinery USA Inc. — St. Paul, MN, 651-289-9700
- Mazak North America — Florence, KY, 859-342-1700
- Methods 3D Inc. — Sudbury, MA, 978-443-5388
- Met-L-Flo Inc. — Sugar Grove, IL, 630-409-9860
- Next Chapter Manufacturing — Grand Rapids, MI, 616-263-6200
- Proto Labs Inc. — Maple Plain, MN, 763-479-3680
- Renishaw Inc. — West Dundee, IL, 847-286-9953
- Shapeways — Livonia, MI, 734-422-6060
- SLM Solutions Americas — Wixom, MI, 248-243-5400
- Sodick Inc. — Schaumburg, IL, 847-310-9000
- Stratasys Direct Manufacturing — Valencia, CA, 661-295-4400
- Stratasys Inc. — Eden Prairie, MN, 800-937-3010
- SyBridge Technologies — Southfield, MI, 888-506-2926
- Trumpf Inc. — Farmington, CT, 860-255-6000
- VELO3D — Campbell, CA, 408-610-3915
- voestalpine High Performance Metals Corp. — Elgin, IL, 630-883-3000
- Xact Metal Inc. — State College, PA, 814-205-1505
- Xometry — Gaithersburg, MD, 240-252-1138
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS
ESPRIT CAM software by Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division offers users the digital tools needed to prepare 3D-printed components for manufacturing using powder bed fusion (PBF) technologies.
Source: Hexagon
Mantle has developed two tool steel materials, P20 and H13, and has demonstrated that these materials perform in a manner comparable to traditional tool steels.
Source: Mantle Inc.
DMG MORI’s Lasertec 65 DED hybrid machine, which combines additive manufacturing (AM) with milling capabilities, provides many opportunities for mold and die repair, as well as the manufacture of new molds.
Source: DMG MORI USA
Meltio seeks to bring affordable wire-laser metal 3D printing systems to a variety of end markets with the use of the Meltio M450, a turnkey directed energy deposition (DED) solution.
Source: Meltio
Available as a retrofit for existing CNC machines or for direct integration into new machines, Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies’ cladding head system provides users improved access for the additive deposition head to access difficult-to-reach areas of the mold that need metal added.
Source: Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies
Xact Metal’s XM300G series of mid-size metal 3D printers bring affordable metal 3D printing to small- to medium-sized companies.
Source: Xact Metal
Trumpf highlights the capabilities of the TruPrint 5000, which includes reliable 3D printing of standard tool steel H11/H13 (1.2343/1344).
Source: Trumpf
AddUp Inc.’s shaping AISI 420 steel, available for all FormUp 350 new generation powder bed fusion (PBF) machines, enables tooling manufacturers to develop new, more complex and more efficient molds.
Source: AddUp Inc.Related Content
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