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The bricking machine holds the refractory bricks firmly against the furnace shell and aligns the brickwork to avoid catastrophic failure. This also avoids falling debris and other dangers throughout the bricking process, which reduces the chance of injury.
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The thin, structureless layers of UltraPlas allow both nanoscale surface structures, e.g., for the nanoimprint process, and mirror-gloss surfaces to be perfectly reproduced.
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Beralcast beryllium-aluminum alloy bars.
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Automotive cast parts.
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With deoxidized base iron, carbon levels can be increased to 3.30% C and alloying can be completely or nearly eliminated at the same time.
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Quiz: What Do You Know About Additive Manufacturing?

June 27, 2024
There’s a lot of value in additive manufacturing for metalcasters. Test your knowledge with our latest quiz.

The prospect of additive manufacturing as an alternative production process to metalcasting has not played out. Some metalcasters have adopted AM/3D printing as an alternative production offer, or to produce prototypes, or to print sand molds. There’s a lot of value in additive manufacturing for metalcasters. How much do you know about additive manufacturing?