Metal Articles

Agile supply chains can be facilitated by 3D printing

This week, California-based metal 3D printing company Velo3D revealed it had raised an additional $12m in funding, taking its total to $150m. The money will be used to develop a new approach to metal 3D printing, reducing the need to re-design parts for additive...

Enable Mfg.’s Additive Casting process combines 3D printing, traditional casting

Enable Mfg. offers the patented Additive Casting process. It combines 3D printing and traditional casting to manufacture complex metal parts of any size. The process uses industrial 3D printing to produce molds and patterns; those molds are used to cast metal parts...

Affordable Aluminum 3D Printing with ValCUN’s Molten Metal Deposition

Whereas 3D printing has traditionally been used to make a lot of high-end parts in which weight saving and the texture or form make a high-value 3D-printed part worthwhile, lower costs would greatly increase the number of parts made industrially with 3D printing. ....

Electrochemical Machining & Metal 3D Printing Yield Micrometer Dimensional Tolerances

New research is emerging from Saarbrücken, Germany as Professor Dirk Bähre and his team at Saarland University work to improve 3D printing with metal. . Combining electrochemical machining (ECM) with metal fabrication, their new method allows for many of the benefits...