Matsuura USA will exhibit the Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 metal laser sintering hybrid milling machine at North America's largest additive manufacturing event, RAPID + TCT in booth #1231, being held April 21-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
The Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 metal laser sintering hybrid milling machine is a powder bed metal AM platform with subtractive machining capability. The machine combines selective laser sintering (SLS) along with high speed milling (HSM), commonly called Hybrid AM.
The Avance-25 relies on one-machine, one-process manufacturing of complex molds and parts by fusing metal laser sintering technology with high speed milling technology. The hybrid technology creates a "finished" part with machined surface finish and accuracy, without inducing the additional variation caused by multiple machine set-ups and part handling.
"The Avance-25 achieves the highest accuracy in part fabrication since metal powders are melted and sintered via laser, while surfaces are precisely milled at high speeds," said a company spokesperson.
3D cooling channels can be incorporated into molds in the single set-up, thereby increasing cooling efficiency and enabling high-cycle injection molding with high quality and precision, reducing costs and improving efficiency.
The Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 enables differentiated original parts production with internal structures. It is capable of quick-turnaround production of custom parts, including prototypes and small production run parts.
The Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 can process parts and molds up to 256 mm x 256 mm x 185 mm with an option allowing processing of 256 mm x 256 mm x 300 mm. The Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 serves predominantly the high value, high accuracy mold and die market. "Dies and molds with very complex geometries can be fabricated in one piece with high accuracy, shortening lead time and reducing manufacturing costs to a half or even a third of conventional methods," said the spokesperson.
Additional opportunities to observe the Matsuura LUMEX Avance-25 include: AMERIMOLD, June 10-11 in booth 531 at the Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi, MI; and IMTS, September 14-19, 2020 in the South Hall, booth 338148 at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL.
Appointments may also be made at Matsuura Machinery USA's LUMEX Additive Manufacturing Facility in St. Paul, MN. Located in the company's 38,000 sq. ft. headquarters in St. Paul, MN, the facility houses LUMEX Avance-25 and LUMEX Avance-60 machines available for demonstration.
For more information contact:
Matsuura Machinery USA
325 Randolph Ave., Ste. 100
St. Paul, MN 55102
800-518-4584 / 651-289-9700
info@matsuurausa.com
www.matsuurausa.com
RAPID + TCT Booth 1231