Layer by layer to success
Across the foundry industry, additive manufacturing enables foundries to produce prototypes and very limited series without high tooling and storage costs. Additive manufacturing also gives designers unprecedented freedom in the design of moulds and cores. For example, HA has developed coatings with special properties that are perfectly matched to additive-manufactured moulds and cores. A specially configured 3D printer in the CoC also enables us to work more closely with our customers in this field.
How does Additive Manufacturing work in practice?
- 68 % of the users reduce the time to market period
- Complex geometries cannot be produced conventionally
- Reduction of tolerances by converting core packages into more complex individual parts
- For the production of short and medium series up to 70,000 parts per year
- Improvement of the properties through hatching, such as better gas permeability, better disintegration properties, etc
Foundries that use 3D printing for their moulds and cores can rely on products specifically developed for the process. The use of coatings specially developed for 3D printing can prevent the formation of rough casting surfaces and sand adhesion.
Advantage：
- For application in iron, steel and aluminium casting
- Avoidance of casting defects
- Smooth surfaces
- Application properties tailored to different printing processes