Sand 3D Printing Success Stories

With the adoption of binder jet 3D printing, Wirco is able to produce a week's worth of cores in 18 hous. The flexibility of digital production on the S-Max enables aggressive delivery times that keep the foundry competitive.  

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Heavy Bikes feature single-piece frames cast in aluminum. 3D printing enables customized designs and fast product development while eliminating the cost of hard tooling, making casting more affordable and accessible.  

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Federal Bronze uses the flexibility, precision, and fast turnarounds of binder jetting to support the launch of the Columbia class submarine for the U.S. Navy. With lights-out core production, the foundry has a day's worth of cores ready overnight.    

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The flexibility of binder jetting allows Liberty Pattern to provide top-quality services for a wide range of customers and applications. A 20+ part core assembly was reduced to a single complex 3D print.  

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Dundee Castings, a Tier 2 supplier of premium automotive seating molds to most of the world’s leading automakers users two S-Max Pro binder jetting systems to print complexity directly into the part, improving consistency and quality.  

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BMW uses binder jetting for the automatic, large-scale production of cores to cast cylinder heads for its high-efficiency, straight-six turbo engines. Layer-by-layer production allows complex passages that optimize cooling to be incorporated.

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3D printing on the S-Max enabled Kore Mart to create complex geometries repeatably and in large volumes. Eliminating hard tooling by printing directly from a CAD design reduces production setup times compared to traditional processes.

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The ExOne S-Max enables GF Casting Solutions Leipzig GmbH to consolidate 12 shot cores into one printed core. In addition to improving the core quality, time-intensive and laborious steps are eliminated.

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One of the largest producers of critical cast-iron components in the U.S. recognized that advanced processes like binder jet 3D printing enabled component weight reductions and faster response times that are key to future growth.  

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