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Large Hybrid Steel Insert Solves Deformation, Dimensionality, Cycle Time Problems

Mold Making Technology

Initially, that involved 3D printing metal tool components, details and geometries that would otherwise need to be EDM’d. By 2015, with 135 employees and 15 metal AM printers (along with several polymer AM types), Linear had evolved to be more additive service bureau than conventional toolmaker and molder. .

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Additive manufacturing: trends and opportunities

Manufacturer's Monthly

As the director of CSIRO’s Lab 22, Australia’s centre for additive innovation, I have witnessed the rapid and impressive growth of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Automotive businesses have adopted AM for rapid prototyping and parts manufacturing, expediting the design process.