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Mitsubishi Metal 3D Printers - Coming Shortly:

3D printing has opened up worlds to the average person – given he could afford a personal 3D printer. While it certainly cannot be called a household item yet, a 3D printer is not that hard to come by these days, and you can create practically anything from guns to little figurines of yourself to horse shoes. Heck, even Walmart and Asda are offering 3D printing services!

 

The only machine in the world which realizes one-machine one-process manufacturing of complex molds and parts using fusing metal laser sintering (3D SLS) technology and high-speed milling technology. The printer melts metal powders and sinters with laser while surfaces are milled in high speed to form metal parts with complex surface shapes.
Matsuura Machinery’s printer can fabricate dies and molds of very complex geometry with dimensions as large as 250 x 250 x 180 mm.

• Laser oscillator: Yb fiber laser
• Laser Power : 400W
• Spindle Speed: 45,000 min
• Travel (X/Y/Z) : 260/260/100 mm
• Feed Rate (X/Y/Z) : 60/60/30 m/min

  Used in the die and mold industry, the Avance-25 can produce both molds and parts that require additive manufacturing and high-speed milling.  It has a build volume of 250 by 250 by 180mm.

The company hopes to deliver 10 of the  machines this year. The company said the printer could also be used for aerospace applications and in the medical industry.

According to the company, dies and molds of with complex geometries can be fabricated in one piece with high accuracy, shortening lead time and reducing manufacturing costs to a half or one third of conventional methods. In addition, three-dimensional cooling channels can  be incorporated in molds, increasing cooling efficiency and enabling high-cycle injection molding.