Additive Manufacturing

New Metal 3D Printing System Accelerates Mold Insert Production

Faster tooling production, including the manufacture of precision metal mold inserts, can be achieved via Mantle’s new metal 3D printing technology.

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3D Metal Printing Adoption Enables Rapid Design Changes, Internal Feature Inclusion, Quality Components

Xact Metals’ 3D printing technologies and services are offered for quick, efficient and cost-effective moldmaking and tooling production.

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Automation

Lights-Out Metal 3D Printer Minimizes EDM Needs for Moldmakers 

The Matsuura LUMEX series boasts both forming and milling capabilities in one unit, achieving highly accurate mold component production, with the ablity to integrate conformal cooling and porous venting.

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Additive Manufacturing Powder Characterized by High Resistance, Toughness

Böhler distributor, Edro Engineering, highlights Böhler W360 Ampo powder, which after hardening and tempering, achieves high temperature wear resistance, heat resistance and toughness.

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3D-Printed Tooling Platform Ramps Up Injection Molding Tooling Capabilities

Addifab and Nexa3D collaborate to bring a novel 3D-printed injection mold tooling platform to moldmakers globally, leveraging faster, cheaper and greener 3D printing.

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Metal Powder Advances Additive Manufacturing for Moldmaking

A high-grade metal powder developed by Hasco is offered in two grades and offers optimized particle size, roundness and homogeneity.

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Repair, Repurpose Tooling in One Process with Hybrid/Additive Manufacturing

Open Mind Technologies offers an Additive Manufacturing capability option to hyperMILL to support 3D printing/additive processes, such as DED, WAAM and laser powder.

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Variable Density-Coated Tool Steel for High-Wear Molds

A mold builder can have an abundance of venting and fully dense solid areas in steel by using variable density sintering to eliminate gas trap defects in high-wear molds.

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End-to-End Conformal Cooling Design, Production for Faster Cycle Times, Boosted Part Quality

Cimatron works with moldmakers to design and optimize molds with conformal cooling, prepare it for an accurate print and ensure complete post-processing.

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Supply Chain

Mold in a Day Technology Slashes Tool Production, Eliminates Supply Chain Headache

Next Chapter Manufacturing says its Mold in a Day additive manufacturing technology slashes the production of tooling down to hours while maintaining the same quality and tolerance standards of conventional molds.

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