As composites practitioners well know, tooling for composite parts is a challenge. Metal tools are the most robust option and support rate production, but they need to be carefully engineered to match ...

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Velo3D, Inc. (NYSE: VLD), a leading metal additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical parts, today announced that Atomic Industries, a creator of ...

Production System Binder Jetting Technology Enables Production of Cold Work Tool and Die Parts with High Hardness, Wear Resistance and Compressive Strength BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Desktop Metal (NYSE ...

A study comparing the cooling properties, cooling time, and warpage of parts produced with aluminum and P20 steel inserts found that on average there was a 10 °C disparity in mold temperature between ...

Metal stamping is a process that takes flat sheets of steel and uses tooling to convert the sheet of steel into specifically shaped parts. Metal stamping is a complex process and uses various metal ...

The AISI classifies chromium hot-work tool steels as group H steels, ranging from H1 to H19. H10 Chromium hot-work steel has excellent resistance to softening at high temperatures. This particular ...

The same properties that qualify tool steels for tools and dies are also used for other parts that require resistance to wear, stability during heat treatment, strength at high temperatures, or ...

Whether heat treatment is carded out in-house or subcontracted, procedures must be drawn up and adhered to if the heat treatment process is to be properly controlled. Subcontract heat treatment should ...

Tooling is the vital but often underappreciated silent partner behind every well-designed composite part. It also can be a very costly aspect of that part’s production. The manager for a Tier 1 ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ryerson Holding Corporation (NYSE: RYI), a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals, announced today its acquisition of Hudson Tool ...

Tool steels have historically been over-used for injection mold cores and cavities, simply because they've been both cheap and familiar. But soaring price tags on many tool steels, coupled with the ...