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New printers and Nylon carbon fiber material expand applications for additive manufacturing on the factory floor.

New 3D-printers and Nylon carbon fiber material expand applications for additive manufacturing on the factory floor.

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New 3D-printers and Nylon carbon fiber material from Stratasys expand applications for additive manufacturing on the factory floor.

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, andere

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Additive Fertigung

Werkstoffe für additive Verfahren

Two New Composite-Ready 3D-Printers

3D Systems has developed the SLA 750 stereolithography solution for additive manufacturing of large products or high quantities. It comprises the 3D printers SLA 750 and SLA 750 Dual, as well as the new material Accura AMX Durable Natural and the Post Cure 1050 secondary finishing system.

Resistant material: Accura AMX Durable Natural is suitable for applications with high elasticity and high impact strength. © 3D Systems

Anlagen für die Additive Fertigung

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, Kunststoff

Harzwerkstoffe

SLA Platform for Large Parts

Additive manufacturing has the potential to manufacture tablets individualized for the particular patient, and thereby further digitalize the pharmaceutical industry. In medication development, the properties of a tablet, such as its shape, dosage or release of the active substance, can be individually tailored – by making just a few changes to the digital 3D print file. Merck scientists have used a Freeformer for their lab tests.

Merck researcher Dr. Thomas Kipping (right) and Nabil Lamrabet value the advantages that the Freeformer offers as an open system.

The Freeformer Allows a Tailor-Made Combination of Several Active Ingredients

Medizintechnik

Arburg Kunststoff Freiformen

Patient-Specific Tablets

It is a hot runner nozzle such as had never been seen before Fakuma 2021: with a honeycomb structure on the outside and, in the nozzle interior, integrated insulation gaps manufactured in one part by the additive SLM process, in which even the fastening nut is captively printed on the nozzle body. The pride of the concept is the special algorithmic modification of the nozzles for any application case.

A mold-making job with up to 30 nozzles is processed in the SLM machine in about 24 hours. 

The First Additively Manufactured One-Part Hot Runner Nozzle

Spritzgießen

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Selektives Laserschmelzen von Kunststoff, Metall, Keramik

Heißkanalsysteme

Algorithmically Modified  Inner Workings

The use of recyclates confronts companies with new requirements in the processing, bonding, printing and labeling of materials and components. Atmospheric plasma technology, in which Plasmatreat GmbH has specialized, has established itself as a key technology: it often makes the use of recycled plastics possible in the first place – and also proves to be the means of choice on the way to more environmentally friendly, more resource-efficient production processes.

When using Openair-Plasma, the plasma jet works in a location-selective manner and follows the component geometry with millimeter precision. During the plasma treatment, very little heat is generated, so that the treated components remain dimensionally stable.

Atmospheric Plasma Technology as the Key to More Resource Conservation

Bedrucken

Plasmabehandlung

Oberflächentechnik

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Improved Processing of Recyclates

With the Streamrunner from Hasco, the first additively manufactured hot runner, now completely new and space-saving options are also available for valve gate systems.

Fully balanced 20-cavity system with valve gate technology with an outer dimension of the 3D-printed manifold of just 124 x 124 mm. 

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

Heißkanaltechnik

Additively Manufactured Hot Runner Manifolds with Needle Valve

Over the four trade-show days in November, Formnext 2021 transformed the metropolis of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, into an international innovation center of global additive manufacturing and modern industrial production. At the plastics side, some of the focuses were on the manufacture of voluminous parts, the use of injection molding pellets as a material basis, and the processing of high-performance plastics.

A high-strength carbon fiber-reinforced polyamide is printed on a plasma-treated stainless steel sheet.

Formnext 2021: Successful Relaunch as a Face-to-Face Show

Anlagen für die Stereolithografie, Kunststoff

3D-Drucker (für FDM, FFF, etc.)

Hochleistungskunststoffe

High-Performance 3D Printing

tesa develops e. g. adhesives for smartphone components and investigate the added value that additive manufacturing with plastics freeforming can bring.

“Printed” pressure-sensitive adhesives can be used, for example, to bond smartphone components together, without producing any waste

tesa Uses Freeformer for Novel Bonding Applications

Klebstoffe

What Holds the World together

Rehau is developing an additive manufacturing process that can turn out large polymer manholes in single-unit batches.

Kevin Winter (left) and Jonas Wilfert from Rehau in their 3D printing production environment. Components can have a maximum diameter of 1.2 m and height of 85 cm

Additive Manufacturing Process Revolutionizes Process Chain in Civil Engineering

Hoch- und Tiefbau

Fused Deposition Modeling Kunststoff, Glas, Karbon, Metall

Large Components Custom-Built  in One Week

Perstorp presents a general-purpose plasticizer partly based on renewable raw material using a traceable mass balance concept.

Weichmacher

PVC-Additive

DPHP Plasticizer Based on Renewable Material

Italian manufacturer Roboze has equipped its Argo 500 3D printer with automation technology from B&R. The printer offers repeatable high precision and full process control. This reduces lead times and lowers the cost of creating custom metal-replacement components

Roboze uses B&R technology to integrate its 3D printer into industrial production. Customized high-performance plastics can now be processed faster and easier

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

High-Precision 3D Printing

 Erofio Group 3D Produces Mold Core on GE Additive Concept Laser M Line.

3D view of the eight conformal cooling channels

Konturnahe Kühlung

Anlagen Additive Fertigung / 3D-Druck, Metall

Successful Pre-Series Test

Biologic Models, US-based 3D-printed protein model and medical animation provider, is using Mimaki’s 3D printing technology to produce intricate molecular visualization models, bringing protein into the tangible world in incredible detail.

Virus model of SARS-CoV-2 produced with the 3DUJ-553 full color 3D printer

3D Printer Enables Precise Models of Protein Cells

Production is becoming ever more flexible, diversified and decentralized. Without doubt, additive manufacturing processes make a crucial contribution to this, also initiating the transformation from production-based design to design-driven production. In this article, the 3D printing service provider FIT outlines a best-practice panorama of current technologies.

The biggest ever 3D-printed lattice structure was assembled along over 2000 precisely fitting joints into an 8 m-high retable

What Additive Plastic Manufacturing Can Do. The View of a Full-Service Provider

Verfahren für die additive Fertigung

Anlagen Selektives Lasersintern, Kunststoff

3D-Druck-Anlage, pulverbettbasiert, Metall

SLA (Stereolithografie) Kunststoff

3D-Druck-Anlage, strahlbasiert, Metall

Selektives Lasersintern von Kunststoff, Metall, Keramik

Finer, Bigger, Faster

To extend the range of polymer powders for selective laser sintering, Paderborn University in collaboration with the Maag Group has developed an extrusion line that can produce round particles with good flowability.

The extrusion line to manufacture powder for selective laser sintering of plastics is in the Paderborn University laboratory

Research Project to Manufacture Powder for Selective Laser Sintering of Plastics

Compoundieren

Perfectly Round

PA66 and PBT considerably expand the field of applications for laser sintering by showing better properties than classic PA11 and PA12 materials in most cases.

As a temperature-resistant and flame-retardant material with high mechanical properties, PA66 opens up new application possibilities for laser sintering, such as its use as a sensor holder

PA66 and PBT for Laser Sintering

Polybutylenterephthalat

Polyamide

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Technische Kunststoffe

Kunststoff

From Injection Molding to  Additive Manufacturing

Polymaker will offer the Polymaker PC-r 3D printing filament made from recycled polycarbonate (PC). The PC for the filaments comes from materials supplier Covestro and consists of a combination of recycled plastic waste and virgin material.

The combination of recyclates and virgin material reduces the<sub> </sub>carbon footprint of the polycarbonate and still allows it to be extruded into filaments

Filamente für additive Verfahren

Polycarbonat

Water Bottles Become Filaments

Before the direct extrusion of profiles made of polyvinyl chloride was developed, it was previously necessary to produce a dry blend. This process is expensive and energy-intensive and, in contrast to direct extrusion, discontinuous. The direct extrusion of PVC using planetary roller extruders promises an improvement. In addition to soft PVC, rigid PVC can also be processed in this way with a few adjustments.

The direct extrusion of PVC profiles on planetary roller extruders can save costs and energy and simplify the process

Extrusion of Rigid PVC without Dry Blend Production

PVC-Profile

Kunststoff-Profile

Granulat, PVC- (Compound)

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Polyvinylchlorid

Rohr- und Profilextrusion

Extrusionsanlagen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Direct Route to the PVC Profile

Currently, small wind turbines can hardly be operated profitably in landlocked regions. This drawback has now been overcome by the partners EAB Gebäudetechnik Luckau GmbH and the Chair of Polymer-based Lightweight Design at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg: passive smartblades made from 3D-printed molds adapt independently to wind conditions. This is achieved by an intelligent layer structure and its bending-torsion-coupling.

This newly developed rotor blade is especially suited for weak-wind regions and adapts independently to the wind load

Additive Manufacture of FRP Injection Molds for FRP Components of Small Wind Turbines

Glasfasern / -matten

Faserverarbeitung

Simulation Produkt- / Formteildesign

Finite Methoden

Harze, Epoxid

Windkraft

Analysetools, FEM

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Highly Efficient Adaptive  Fiber-Composite Rotor Blades

Evonik has introduced a PEEK for FFF and FDM printers. The material was developed specifically for medical technology applications such as prostheses, surgical instruments and hearing aids.

The 3D-printable filament can be used, for example, for implants or hearing aids

Polyetherketon

Biocompatible and Easy to Process PEEK

With the anniversary motto „Next 75“, the Heilbronn-based mechanical engineering company is consciously looking ahead to extend its market leadership in the decades to come.