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Metal and Ceramic 3D printing, Metal and
Ceramic Injection Molding MIM/CIM
Our products are compounds made of especially
balanced metal or ceramic powders and a
composition of thermoplastic binders.
These Materials can be shaped in different ways.
Already known for decades is the Metal and
Ceramic Injection Molding. Here the Granulate is
shaped usin injection molding machines.
Our development of filaments made of those
compounds gives you the possibility to use a
FFF/FDM 3D printer for shaping.
Aside from the shaping the following processes are
the same for both technologies.
The printing or molding of the part (green part) is
followed by an extraction process: the debinding
(brown part).
Therefore the green part is immersed in warm
acetone for around 12 hours.
It followes the sintering where the brown part is
compacted to a solid metal or ceramic part.
In the beginning the residual binder is burned while
the compacting of the powder particles begins.
After sintering no binder material remains in the
part.
The mechanical and chemical properties of the
resulting part are equivalent to those reached by
other processes.
Known post processing like heat treatment
compacting surface treatment or else can be done
to optimise the properties.
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