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Molds/Cores

Sinto America Adding Tinker Omega

Nov. 5, 2024

The Hunter Top Bottom Blow machine, introduced in 2019, uses adjustable hydraulics to deliver higher squeeze pressure and produces more consistent and uniform mold surface hardness than many gravity-filling processes.

Molds/Cores

Hunter Foundry Machinery Sold to Investor Group

Oct. 24, 2024

Issues and Ideas

Researchers Studying Cybersecurity in Sand 3DP

Oct. 10, 2024

The Clear Cast Resin plus stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing workflow produces patterns with fine details and smooth surfaces as well as clean burnout and minimal ash content.

Molds/Cores

New 3DP Workflow for Investment Casting

Oct. 3, 2024

The modular Resand electric sand reclaimer can be installed in four to five months, to clean 1,000 kg of sand per hour.

Molds/Cores

Low-Emission Sand Reclamation Drawing Interest

Oct. 3, 2024

Manufacturers can produce high-quality master patterns quickly for investment casting using the 3D Printing Build Processor from Stratasys and Materialise.

New Products

New Build Processor for IC Patterns

Sept. 24, 2024

Issues and Ideas

Jack Palmer, 1953-2024

Sept. 17, 2024

The thin, structureless layers of UltraPlas allow both nanoscale surface structures, e.g., for the nanoimprint process, and mirror-gloss surfaces to be perfectly reproduced.

Molds/Cores

Could Cold Plasma Change HPDC?

Sept. 5, 2024

3D Systems’ QuickCast Air (at left) is an advanced tool for designing 3D-printed polymer patterns (right) for investment casting, to maximize material removal from the interior of casting patterns. This enables reduced material consumption, lower pattern costs, faster build times, cleaner burnout processes, and improved draining efficiency.

New Products

Design Software Optimizes Investment Casting Patterns

Sept. 4, 2024

Molds/Cores

Click…Print… Mold…Cast

May 16, 2013

A defective turbine wheel deprived a small hospital in Ethiopia of electricity. The problem was solved quickly and without much bureaucracy, thanks to the involvement of a Swiss foundry and turbine builder, and voxeljet technology GmbH, a 3D printing specialist.