Under DevelopmentMetal Powders for Additive Manufacturing (3D Printer)
JX Advanced Metals Group companies are developing and manufacturing metal powders of various kinds for additive manufacturing.
JX Advanced Metals Group: Copper Powder (under development)
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Applying our proprietary surface treatment technology to high-quality copper powder, we are developing copper powder applicable to various methods of metal additive manufacturing.
Benefits of Surface Treatment
- Anti-oxidation effect: Surface treatment prevents an increase in oxygen content, which inhibits AM processing.
- Powder sintering inhibition effect: In Electron-Beam (EB) AM, surface treatment inhibits powder sintering during the preheating process, for more flexible AM processing.
- Improvement of laser absorption ratio: Formation by Laser Beam (LB) AM is considered to be difficult with ordinary copper powders, but improving the laser absorption ratio increases the potential for its use.
Anti-oxidation effect
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Powder sintering inhibition effect (Electron Beam AM)
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- Through preheating process of electron-beam AM, redundant powders can bond with each other excessively by heat, resulting in difficulty in removing the powders.
Inquiries accepted 24 hours a day
TANIOBIS GmbH: Tantalum and Niobium Alloy Powders AMtrinsic®
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We provide AMtrinsic® Spherical Powders and alloys containing Tantalum and Niobium that are ideal for additive manufacturing applications.
Tantalum and niobium are biocompatible and non-allergenic, with high melting points, high corrosion resistance, and ductility at high temperatures.
They also have a small coefficient of thermal expansion, and excellent thermal and electrical conductivity, for application to medical care, aerospace, chemical reaction processes and many other uses in metal additive manufacturing.
- Products
- Ta, Nb, TiNbTa, Ti42Nb, TaW, FS85 (Nb/Ta/W/Zr)
- Products under Development
- TiTa, High Entropy Alloys (HEA), C103 (Nb/Hf/Ti)
- Typical Applications
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Heat exchangers for chemical processes
Particle accelerators for superconducting
Engine systems for aerospace
AMtrinsic® is sold by TANIOBIS GmbH.
Inquiries accepted 24 hours a day
H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH: Tantalum and Niobium Alloy Powders
Department name: Business Development Department, Tantalum and Niobium Division
Calls accepted from 9:00 a.m. to 5:50 p.m. JST (except weekends and holidays)
Toho Technical Service Co., Ltd.: Titanium Alloy Powder (Ti6Al4V)
64-alloy powder, made from 64-alloy chip as raw material, is a powder with extremely low impurity level, with low oxygen content achieved by removal of fine particles.
(1) For Electron Beam AM
Particle size 45 to 150µm
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(2) For Laser Beam AM
Particle size 20 to 45µm
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64-alloy is provided by Toho Technical Service Co., Ltd.