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New technical article: Additive Manufacturing for Cold work tools?

Metal additive manufacturing is fast becoming a well-established technology for tool making for plastic injection molding. Many companies are using additive to realize opportunities to save cost and increase productivity through shorter cycle times and challenging conventional ways approaching conformal cooling.

The market for additive manufactured (AM) tools for hot work applications, such as dies for high pressure die casting, is also growing. However, here additive technology is used more to solve casting problems such as porosity or shrinkage by changing the cooling gradients in the molded parts with the better possibilities for getting cooling to where it is needed.

But what about the cold work tooling sector, is there a market for additive manufacturing also there?

Read the full technical article attached below, written by Kenneth Åsvik (Uddeholm AB) and Markus Ramsperger (GE Additive).

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