Sentences with phrase «metal powder»

These machines use lasers — or, in some cases, high - power electron beams — to draw shapes in a layer of metal powder by melting the material.

It described a process of putting down a thin layer of metal powder and then using ink - jet printing to deposit a liquid that selectively binds the powder together.

But instead of a softened polymer, it uses metal powders mixed with a flowable polymer binder.

• Metal Powder Products LLC, a portfolio company of Mill Point Capital, acquired NetShape Technologies Inc, a Floyd Knobs, Ind. - based provider of engineered metal components using powdered metal and metal injection molding technologies.

Not only has the machine's firmware been updated to make the printer more accurate, but a number of hardware upgrades, including a spindle capable of turning metal powder into incredibly detailed pistols, have been added to make the finished products look and act more like traditional handguns.

For both looks I used lots of the Make Up For Ever Metal Powder in the gold shade.

Cubichain, which develops anti-counterfeiting tools for Web 4.0, and CalRAM LLC, which provides metal powder bed fusion for aerospace and space applications, announced the deployment.

Additive Manufacturing Resources Centre (AMRC) offers designers and manufacturers an environment to use laser sintering equipment utilizing metal powders.

This 3D printing process produces metal parts layer by layer using a high - energy laser beam to fuse metal powder particles.

«One of the limiting factors at this point is going to be producing or obtaining metal powders of whatever alloy composition you are looking for.

Even fluidized metal powders and explosives have seen some use.

But if existing combustion power plants could be adapted to use metal powder instead of coal or other fossil fuels, then much of the existing power generating infrastructure could be used, and power generation could continue to be in the same places it is now, using the same grid as is currently supplying electricity.

The book The Chemistry of Fireworks lists this as an ingredient and Wikipedia explains that «in fireworks, stearic acid is often used to coat metal powders such as aluminium and iron.

Metal Powder Products LLC («MPP»), a Mill Point Capital portfolio company, announced today that it has acquired NetShape Technologies Inc. («NetShape»), a leading manufacturer and solutions provider of engineered metal components using powdered metal and metal injection molding («MIM») technologies headquartered in Floyds Knobs, IN.

To make the solid materials that comprise the alloy, Graeve and her team mixed metal powders in a graphite mold.

The technique works by applying a laser to a layer of metal powder, melting the powder into a solid layer that is only 20 microns thick.

(In metal printing, metal powder is fused together to create objects.

Most other 3 - D printers put down layers of plastic or metal powders, then cook and cool them to make objects.

Desktop Metal's printing systems contain both 3D printers that can produce small objects from metal powders and machines called sinters, which contain microwaves that heat the metal powders, causing them to become dense and usable.

Industrial manufacturers are making shapes from fused bits of plastic and metal powder; shapes that previously weren't possible.

Metal Powder Products LLC, a Mill Point Capital portfolio company, announced today that it will now be known as MPP.

The formulation is extruded, using the printed binder to clump the metal powder into the intended shapes.

But they also knew it was too slow to be practical, and the metal powders required for the process were far too expensive at the time.

The metal powder used in the current metal printing processes is a contaminant that is difficult to clean up and can be toxic inside the body.

The researchers demonstrated the method using an ARCAM electron beam melting system (EBM), in which successive layers of a metal powder are fused together by an electron beam into a three - dimensional product.

To successfully meet, and exceed, the necessary performance requirements for 316L stainless steel, researchers first had to overcome a major bottleneck limiting the potential for 3D printing high - quality metals, the porosity caused during the laser melting (or fusion) of metal powders that can cause parts to degrade and fracture easily.

And the possibilities of these metal powders don't just look to the future, but may also redeem materials from the past that had been abandoned by researchers and industry as impossible to work with.

«90.76 Aluminum - 52.34 Bismuth - 46.1 Iron - 42.41 Tungstan - 34.69 Silicon - 31.95 Nickel - 21.7 Cobalt - 20.31 Tin - 10.42 Copper - 9.88 Chromium (360.57 ml)», 2015 metal powder in acrylic binder on canvas 207 x 157 cm

«72.73 Nickel - 64.32 Tungstan - 56.04 Bismuth - 37.53 Tin - 28.09 Copper - 25.99 Aluminum - 22.25 Chromium - 22.06 Silicon - 16.59 Iron - 14.96 Cobalt (360.57 ml)», 2015 metal powder in acrylic binder on canvas 207 x 157 cm

Many art watchers expected Roger Hiorns to walk away with the prize for a body of work that included a jet engine reduced to metal powder and a condemned south London flat that he turned into a blue crystal grotto, with the aid of copper sulphate solution.

3D printing is performed by telling a computer to apply layer upon layer of a specific material (quite often plastic or metal powders), molding them one layer at a time until the final product — be it a toy, a pair of sunglasses or a scoliosis brace — is built.