Revealed:
Ceramics are sometimes solely thought-about when polymers and metals do not make the grade.
Equally, it’s usually solely when a standard manufacturing technique fails to allow the required geometry that 3D printing is named upon.
And so it was the case when Plasway was manufacturing an Atomic Layer Deposition fuel distribution ring. Steel supplies would not present the chemical resistance required, and subtractive strategies struggled with the form of the rings and the decision of the nozzles.
Enter Alumina Methods with its Lithoz S320 Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) system.