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Additive Manufacturing for complex die casting tools: Scalable process for large aluminum components successfully demonstrated
The Fraunhofer ILT and MacLean-Fogg have jointly produced a complex die casting tool inlay using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB/M). The specially developed L-40 tool steel enables the additive manufacturing of heavily loaded, large-volume tools for the first time and thus the implementation of conformal cooling.
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Heat treatment for the production of electrical tubular heating elements
Tubular heating elements are electrical heating elements which consist of a thin resistance wire built as a fine spiral, which is placed central in a protection tube made of metal. The tube is filled with a insulating compound. This basic principal configuration was already patented in USA in 1859. More than half a century passed until this idea could be used comercially.
