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Aluminum Additive Manufacturing
Who prints production parts in this alloy, and are they qualified for flight hardware?
What it is
Building parts layer by layer from powder or wire feedstock. Powder bed fusion suits small complex parts, directed energy deposition and wire arc suit large near net shapes and repair.
Suppliers
Suppliers 5
Companies that perform this process on customer material.
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Beehive Industries VerifiedAS9100
Aluminium is named among printed materials (aluminium, nickel, cobalt, titanium, refractory). Operated as part of a large multilaser machine fleet, AS9100D and ISO 9001 at Knoxville and Denver. Build envelope is not published.
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Elementum 3D VerifiedAS9100
Laser powder bed printing run in house, not only powder supply. The company develops its own printable aluminium including elevated temperature variants and shows printed parts. AS9100D.
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Imperial Machine & Tool Co. VerifiedAS9100SLM 500 quad-laser build 285 x 500 x 330 mm; SLM 280 HL twin-laser 285 x 285 x 330 mm
Laser powder bed fusion on three SLM systems. AlSi10Mg to ASTM F3318-18. Printing to a published ASTM or AMS specification is the difference between a printed part you can qualify and one you cannot. AS9100D and ITAR registered.
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Nikon AM Synergy Reported
Metal additive for aerospace and space structures. Alloy range unconfirmed for the rebranded entity.
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Sintavia VerifiedAS9100
Aluminium AlSi10Mg, F357 and A6061-RAM2 are named on the materials page. The AM process type is not stated and AS9100 was not confirmed on this page; the powder laboratory is ISO 17025/ANAB accredited.
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Input material
Forms this process takes in.