Eventually week’s RAPID+TCT 2025 in Detroit, metallic additive manufacturing options supplier ADDiTEC introduced that it was launching a brand new know-how platform. The corporate already has Laser Direct Vitality Deposition (LDED) and Liquid Steel Jetting (LMJ) options, and now it’s increasing its providing by including Laser Powder Mattress Fusion (LPBF) to its portfolio of metallic AM applied sciences with the brand new FUSiON S system. ADDiTEC says that with this addition, it’s now one of many solely corporations on the earth to supply three complementary metallic AM applied sciences.
Chances are you’ll recall that the Florida-based firm, which co-founded the MELTIO model of metallic AM platforms in 2019 with Spanish firm Sicnova 3D, resurrected Xerox’s liquid metallic 3D printing when it acquired Elem Additive Options in 2023; Xerox itself acquired ElemX know-how in 2019 when it purchased metallic 3D printing startup Vader Methods. ADDiTEC calls it Liquid Steel Jetting, or LMJ, and the ElemX printer makes use of molten metallic droplets to construct up 3D objects. The corporate additionally affords laser DED, or LDED, by way of its transportable robotic metallic AM programs, the AMDROiD and AMDROiD X, the latter of which helps in-field manufacturing and restore for protection and different industrial functions. Each its LMJ and LDED, plus CNC know-how, are supplied in ADDiTEC’s Hybrid 3 manufacturing system.
Now, with the addition of LPBF to its portfolio, ADDiTEC may give its prospects expanded functionality and adaptability throughout a number of sectors, together with automotive, aerospace, dental, vitality, tooling, jewellery, and different precision functions.
“Our new LPBF platform, Fusion S, brings high-precision, production-grade metallic 3D printing to the forefront of our providing. This launch marks a serious milestone in our mission to ship a full-spectrum metallic AM portfolio that addresses probably the most demanding use instances—from aerospace and protection to medical and vitality,” said Brian Matthews, the CEO of ADDiTEC, in a press launch.
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Developed via a strategic collaboration, the brand new FUSiON S printer combines what ADDiTEC calls “a confirmed LPBF basis with distinctive engineering and commercialization experience.” The optimized LPBF platform incorporates a compact footprint of 600 x 600 mm, industrial-grade efficiency, and optimized print parameters for cobalt chrome, stainless-steel, titanium, and different superior alloys. Complicated geometries and tremendous options are not any match for the printer’s high-resolution printing, enabled by a really tremendous however highly effective laser spot. The user-friendly FUSiON S additionally has an enhanced materials security characteristic for operators.
“The closed powder circuit ensures extra security at work as a result of the operator doesn’t come into contact with the powder throughout the complete printing course of,” ADDiTEC writes.
The printer’s clever FUSiON Cartridge system ensures protected, economical powder dealing with when paired with the FUSiON Cabin, an unpacking station with a closed course of chamber. Customers merely take the cartridge with their most well-liked materials from the Cabin and insert it into the FUSiON S. The Cartridge and Cabin present clear separation of the ultimate printed element from any residual powder, which can also be collected for potential reuse. This revolutionary closed powder structure implies that operators don’t have any direct contact with metallic powder.
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The brand new FUSiON S additionally incorporates a most scan velocity of 5 m/s, 10-50 μm layer thickness, a virtually 16″ touchscreen, a closed gas-circuit for lowered fuel consumption, and extra. Customers may even discover a verified database of print parameters for a number of supplies, together with treasured metals.
Now that it affords its three complementary metallic AM applied sciences of LDED, LMJ, and LPBF, ADDiTEC prospects can choose the appropriate course of for each challenge, with out having to undergo a number of companions.
Photographs courtesy of ADDiTEC
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