HSS materials for brand new AM process
The expression Additive Manufacturing (AM) describe a wide range of technologies that build 3D printing parts and applications by adding layer-upon-layer of material.
AM not only is replacing many traditional manufacturing processes, but it is also powering the development of innovative, lightweight applications, helping product designers and engineers create highly complex parts faster and more efficiently than before.
As the range of obtainable applications is increasing, so the technologies encompassed in the AM category.
In this scenario, High Speed Sintering is one of the newest AM process and combines the advantages of two existing additive processes: Selective Laser Sintering and Binder Jetting.
With long-term experience in the engineering of high performance composite materials for AM, Italy-based CRP Technology has recently developed a new range of materials for High Speed Sintering materials: the Windform® P-LINE.
Windform® P-LINE HSS materials are used for the creation of small production components.
Windform® P-LINE HSS materials features
PA with superior mechanical properties
Windform® P-LINE materials have been engineered for a faster production of small and complex end-use parts with higher volumes at lower cost.
P-LINE HSS materials are also used for components with detailed surface resolution
Similar to injection molding
Windform® P-LINE High Speed Sintering materials allow all the pros of the plastic injection process without the cons this method entails in terms of cost and time consumption.
In fact injection molding requires so much time for a mold to be created and to be verified for production.
If there is an error in the design then the process has to start over from scratch.
High Speed Sintering technology at a glance
This new AM process involves depositing a fine layer of polymeric powder, after which an inkjet print head selectively deposits an infrared absorbing fluid directly onto the powder surface where sintering is desired.
The build area is then illumined with infrared light, causing the printed fluid to absorb this energy and then melt and sinter (fuse) the underlying powder. This process is repeated layer by layer until the build is complete to form functional plastic parts.
