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Optimize your process for your needs and fully benefit from the 3D printing technology

• Analytics: Powder, metallurgical and chemical labs
• metal powder: Ally melting, atomizing, air-classification
• Recycling: Re-work of surplus metal powder
• Post-Processing: HIP, Machining
• Processing: Printing lab for prototyping and small series (SLM, EBM)
• Engineering: Parameter development, design and simulation

Successful Printing
100% consistent and repeatable quality

Metal Powder Technology:

• Customized alloys
• High purity spherical powders
• Tailored particle size distribution
• High- temperature atomizing > 3.000°C

Printing Process Know-How:

• Process development for EBM & SLM
• Design & engineering
• Simulation
• Post Processing

Heraeus Powder Benefits:

• Perfect flowability
• High purity
• Spherical particle, satellite free
• Crucible free, gas atomization

Since its development in the 1980s, 3D-Printing or Additive Manufacturing has emerged as a powerful tool to process diverse classes of materials including polymers, ceramics and metals. In particular, Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and Electron-beam Melting (EBM) have been proven as promising, future-oriented processing techniques for the industrial production of complex-shaped metallic parts. Most commonly, EBM and SLM are performed with conventional crystalline metallic alloys. Recently it has been demonstrated that the processing conditions inherent to (EBM and) SLM also allow processing of a new class of metallic materials with a unique spectrum of properties, i.e. bulk metallic glasses also known as amorphous metals. This talk gives an overview of recent developments and future perspectives in this direction including requirements, challenges and advantages that emerge in dealing with this promising class of materials.