Explore all 3D printing solutions offered by GKN Powder Metallurgy through our two brands —
Forecast 3Dand
GKN Additive3D Printing
Forecast 3D is equipped with one of the world’s largest global networks of industrial 3D printers and innovative digital solutions for aerospace, automotive, industrial, healthcare, defense, electronics, consumer products, and more,
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Powder Bed Fusion, which can use both metals and polymers, offers design freedom.
FDM produces accurate prototypes and end-use parts with exceptional tensile strength, flexibility, high melt points, and UV resistance.
Stereolithography, or SLA, is known as the original 3D-printing process for producing rapid prototypes and show models
Build high precision parts in vibrant colors, with living hinges, and in multiple materials and durometers in one run.
Metal Laser Sintering also known as DMLS, SLM or LPBF, is a 3D-printing process which creates highly complex and intricate metal parts
The longtime partnership between Forecast 3D and HP has led to the industrialization of binder additive manufacturing for serial production.
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Multi Jet Fusion (also known as MJF or HP 3D printing) will speed your project's time to market.
Our 3D Manufacturing Center is powered by 24 HP Jet Fusion 3D printers, with the capability to produce hundreds of thousands of production parts each week.
HP's 3D printing technology utilizes fusing and detailing agents over a powdered Nylon 12 building area, with infrared lamps fusing an entire layer in a single pass. This highly efficient method can build functional, geometrically complex parts 80 micron layers at a time, with mechanical properties that rival injection-molded parts.
This highly efficient method can build functional, geometrically complex parts 80 micron layers at a time, with mechanical properties that rival injection-molded parts. 3D printing also offers unparalleled options for customization and personalization.
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Process where layers of powdered material are selectively fused together using a heat source (MJF) or laser (SLS)
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Process using a UV laser to solidify liquid photopolymer resin layer by layer, producing high-detail parts
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Process that uses a laser to sinter metal powder, layer by layer, to create durable metal parts (DMLS) or melt metal powder (SLM)
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Process where metal powder is bound together layer by layer with a liquid binder, followed by sintering to create metal parts
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