June 2024

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Materials Consortium event “Unlocking Key Materials in Metal 3D Printing” is a success!

On June 24th, the Materials Consortium (MC) hosted its first event at the Mimo Technik Facility in Carson, CA. The exclusive gathering of around 100 additive manufacturing (AM) suppliers and customers were treated to the unveiling of cutting-edge metal AM material and processing achievements, many networking opportunities, and tasty food from a fried chicken sandwich food truck.

The Materials Consortium is a collective group of leading metal AM powder producers working together to create and share open parameter datasets and testing results for their materials. These open parameter sets, made freely available to all end-users, are designed to enhance collaboration, improve project outcomes, and speed up the integration of new materials and techniques into industries that have been slow to take up AM.

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The event featured materials updates from the MC members, which include Dyndrite, Constellium, Sandvik, and Elementum 3D. Each member showcased their latest achievements and disclosed initial sets of process parameters. Highlights of the session included updates on notable materials such as Constellium Aheadd® CP1, Sandvik Osprey C18150, and Elementum 3D A2024-RAM2TM. Moreover, the member’s presentations provided a rare opportunity to learn more about their material suppliers, corporate structure, and value proposition. The Q&A portion was also insightful; many questions were asked at the event, but it was clear that material surface finish, tensile properties, and availability were of interest to a large portion of attendees.

This was a unique opportunity for the Materials Consortium members to share their perspective on how metal 3D printing materials can elevate component performance and lower qualification and production costs. Their unified efforts to widen the range of usable materials, accelerate AM materials process development and qualification, extend productivity parts, and increase the adoption of metal AM in production environments is an obvious benefit to those in the AM industry and beyond.

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Patrick Callard Chief Marketing Officer

Patrick Callard earned a B.B.A. in advertising from Western Michigan University in 1990. He provides over 30 years of experience in marketing communications, new business development and market outreach.
He has managed multiple marketing projects and budgets for a variety of services and products.

Patrick also successfully grew an IT consulting business from a two-man basement business to a profitable eight employee business in 4-years. Patrick’s daily focus is to unify customer experience, brand purpose, creative communication, and marketing technology to drive the growth of the business.

Tyler Blumenthal

Tyler Blumenthal

Sales Manager, RPM Innovations, Inc.

Tyler’s message will key on blown powder Directed Energy Deposition (L-DED) for AM and repair and why this process is being realized by industry as one of the key pillars in printing thin wall part structures and large part envelope requirements.

Shawn Allan

Shawn Allan

Vice President, Lithoz America, LLC

Shawn will reveal how Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) is producing high resolution, high performance technical ceramics that can serve a wide range of applications and structural materials, such as alumina, zirconia, and silicon nitride. He will also touch on how LCM has progressed into multi-material components incorporating ceramics and metals.

Jeff Lints

Jeff Lints

Founder/CEO, Fortius Metals, Inc.

Jeff’s presentation will focus on the advances in wire DED, including welding processes for wire DED (arc, laser, and e-beam), next-generation alloys for large format metal 3D printing, and use cases that can benefit from replacing large forgings, replacing large machined billets, and producing advanced tooling — enabling next generation designs.

Dr. Jacob Nuechterlein

President/Founder Elementum 3D

Dr. Jacob Nuechterlein is the founder and president of Elementum 3D in Erie, CO. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy at the Colorado School of Mines. Jacob has been researching, teaching, or consulting on topics such as casting and powder metallurgy for the last 14 years. Elementum 3D’s work with powder bed laser additive manufacturing is based on these principles. In addition, is thesis work in thermodynamics and formation kinetics of metal matrix composites is directly related to all 3D printing processes.