46 - Copper, New Metal Printing Processes, Upgrades Based on Software and More from Formnext 2023

Nov 20, 2023

The world's largest trade show for additive manufacturing technology featured more than 800 exhibitors across the entire AM value chain. Additive Manufacturing editors Peter Zelinski and Stephanie Hendrixson discuss what they learned and discovered at the event in this episode, including the rise of copper, the introduction of new processes for 3D printing in metals, equipment upgrades that don't rely on hardware, reduced barriers to entry for AM and much more.

 

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Formnext
• Coverage of the 2022 show
• Reinforce3D's postprocess reinforcing technique
• Horizon Microtechnologies' functional coatings
• Machine Improvements That Don’t Rely on Hardware
• Renishaw's Tempus system for simultaneous laser scanning and recoating
• EOS's Smart Fusion for controlling the melt pool temperature
• AI Build's toolpath and slicing software for robot-based systems
• Dyndrite's LPBF Pro
• New Metal Processes
• Additec's Liquid Metal Jetting Process, now part of a hybrid machine also offering laser wire DED and machining
• Valcun's Minerva machine for Molten Metal Deposition
• Cold Metal Fusion
• Headmade Materials
• MIMPlus
• Nexa3D
• The Rise of Copper
• 6K Additive's Unimelt process
• Metal Powder Works' method for producing metal powder from solid stock
• Lithoz's CeraFab Multi 2M30 for multimaterial parts
• Lowering the Barriers to Entry
• Evolve Additive Solutions STEP Parts Now (more about how STEP works)
• Nanodimension Giga machines
• 3D Systems SLS 300 
• Formlabs Fuse Blast for automated SLS depowdering
• Freemelt eMelt production platform for EBM
• AM Navigator from Siemens, Dyemansion, HP, ForwardAM, BASF, EOS
• Castor software for identifying AM parts
• Resurgence of Tooling Focus
• Demo part formed on 3D printed tooling with material from Airtech, printed on a Hans Weber machine
• Machine tool builder and now LFAM printer supplier Breton
• Markforged FX10 3D printer
• HP's partnership with INDO-MIM
• Tool Changing in AM
• Stratasys F3300 with four extruder heads
• nLight programmable laser
• Prolay FFF printer for Progressive Layer Thickness Manufacturing (PLTM)