Tinker Omega sand mixing machine.

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.

Hunter Foundry Machinery Sold to Investor Group

Oct. 24, 2024

Sand printing at Humtown Products.

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.

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.

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 Build Processor for IC Patterns

Sept. 24, 2024

Sands through and hourglass.

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.

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.

Design Software Optimizes Investment Casting Patterns

Sept. 4, 2024

Molds/Cores

Digital Production of Complex Sand Molds

April 25, 2013

Video demonstrates the additive manfacturing process for producing sand molds, by voxeljet, and then steel castings by Wolfensberger, a foundry in Switzerland