Powder giant Sandvik opens its tailor-made titanium powder factory for 3D printing-additive manufacturing

along with3D printingInto more mainstream applications,3D printingThe metal powder market maintains a high growth trend. IDTechEx predicts that by 20253D printingMetal powder will reach a market size of 5 billion U.S. dollars, with a compound annual growth rate of 39.5%. Supported by market demand, 3D Science Valley sees that the powder giant is actively taking action.

Sandvik titanium powder factory opened

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Recently, about 150 people attended the opening ceremony of Sandvik’s highly automated titanium powder plant in Sandviken, Sweden. Sandvik invested about 200 million Swedish kronor (about 25 million US dollars) to build a New facility for fine metal powders for additive manufacturing applications. The facility belongs to Sandvik’s Material Technology Department.

Sandvik: The most advanced titanium powder plant

• Advanced atomization equipment with electrode melting
• Electrode inert gas atomization technology (EIGA)
• Atomized high-quality titanium powder with low oxygen and low nitrogen
• Dedicated downstream sieve tower, large-scale mixing and packaging equipment
• Includes a screening tower for nickel-based superalloys
• High degree of automation to ensure higher reliability and consistency
• Full traceability, with a complete supply chain-from sponge titanium to finished powder
• Produce high-quality titanium powder for additive manufacturing
• Osprey®Ti-6Al-4V Grade 5
• Osprey®Ti-6Al-4V 23 grade
• Other alloys available on request

Titanium is known for its excellent material properties, strong and lightweight characteristics, and high level of corrosion resistance. At the same time, it is biocompatible. However, historically, the cost and complexity of processing titanium blanks has limited its use in high-value, low-volume industries, such as aerospace and medical.Sandvik launches titanium powder for additive manufacturing, which supports titanium parts3D printingGrowth trend. Compared with the traditional subtractive manufacturing technology, the additive manufacturing process produces much less material waste, and it can also increase the degree of design freedom.OssDsign, a medical technology company, introduced how they developed a revolutionary3D printingTitanium alloy skeleton solution skull implant, thus providing a better solution for patients. Sandvik Coromant shared some experience in the development of lightweight CoroMill®390 milling cutters and demonstrated how additive manufacturing titanium materials can radically improve product performance.pass through3D printing, Sandvik Coromant’s CoroMill®390 milling cutter has achieved an optimized design, reduced weight by 80%, and increased productivity by 200%. CoroMill®390 is a multifunctional industrial system with milling cutter versions for shoulder milling and long-edge milling.In order to reduce weight, Sandvik Coromant optimized the topology of the product and melted it through a selective laser powder bed.3D printingTechnology, to produce a new lightweight version of CoroMill®390, the weight of the milling cutter is reduced by more than 80%, without reducing the strength at all, and can greatly reduce the vibration in the system. In the case of CoroMill®390, the precise lightweight design can limit vibration and smooth cutting performance-increasing customer productivity by 50-200%.

According to Giacomo Mezzino, head of R&D and mechanical engineering at Collins Aerospace, titanium powder is very important, especially for the aerospace industry. Customers continue to demand quality improvement, weight reduction and cost reduction. If you can ensure that they use additive manufacturing to provide them with new features, then this is a win-win situation. Sandvik is a global leader in additive manufacturing of metal powders. The company not only provides the widest range of alloys, but can also customize materials according to customer needs. According to Keith Murray, head of global sales for additive manufacturing, through investment in titanium powder production, Sandvik provides complete materials for additive manufacturing.In addition, because Sandvik has extensive internal innovation and manufacturing capabilities in the field of additive manufacturing, Sandvik can also provide3D printingProcess tailor-made powder.

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