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Does Addititive Manufacturing Add Up?

Posted November 30, 2011 8:18 AM

Additive manufacturing - once entirely confined to polymer materials - is now becoming established as a metals fabrication technology as well. So has it made it onto your shop floor? If so, what types of jobs is it used for? Where is it better than and where still not as appropriate as conventional metal cutting? Do you think it will become a commonplace metals technology or just a niche technique for smaller parts?

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Re: Does Additive Manufacturing Add Up?

12/01/2011 9:16 AM

This is from long time used in metal fabrication business. We put sulfur in steel to make steel smaller ship when used in shop to give it shape.

One use high chrome and nickel in steel to provide steel resistance to oxidation and on and on

I have used in glass manufacturing for electronic adhesive by doping 700 part per million of MgO in lead-Tellurium -vanidate glass one can stabilize high temperature glass viscosity which allowed easy removal of binder for glass -metal ink and list goes on.

Additive plays an important role in metal, glass and ceramics like we do in polymer

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