Metal powders are used to produce a variety of industrial parts and products. A number of techniques are used to manufacture parts from metal powders, with two popular techniques being sintering and ...

An array of powder-metal parts. Powder metallurgy was practiced long before ancient artisans learned to melt and cast iron. Egyptians made iron tools using PM techniques back in 3,000 B.C. The ancient ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology has demonstrated a new offline programming system for use with laser material deposition (LMD) operations. The LMD process is one of a group of ...

These days, basically nothing is produced by laser sintering. Sintering is a solid state joining process where elevated temperatures enable the formation of diffusion ...

Belgium-based ValCUN has presented a technology that overcomes many of the limitations of 3D printing aluminum: Molten Metal ...