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Copper 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

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Companies that perform this process on customer material.

  • ADDMAN Group Verified
    Fort Myers, FL · Service provider
    AS9100NADCAP Nonconventional Machining

    Copper alloys among the metal additive materials. Copper AM is harder than it sounds because copper reflects the laser wavelength most machines use.

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  • Sintavia Verified
    Hollywood, FL · Service provider
    AS9100

    Copper GRCop-42, a NASA-developed copper-chromium-niobium alloy used for regeneratively cooled rocket engine combustion chambers. This is a propulsion material rather than a general copper capability. Do not read it as conductivity-grade copper printing.

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Input material

Forms this process takes in.

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