Explore 3D Metal Binder Jetting

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Explore 3D Metal Binder Jetting: Our Business Case Challenge for Your Serial Production

Are traditional manufacturing technologies keeping your from adopting new technologies?
Do you imagine a design that might only be achieved with 3D metal binder jetting?

If that’s you, get in touch and join our business case challenge!

Enhance your business with 3D Metal Binder Jetting?

We offer a new innovative additive manufacturing technology, metal binder jetting, that is now ready to produce industrial-grade final parts with complex geometries in medium to large series at relatively low cost.

Traditional subtractive manufacturing comes with many limitations, especially in regard to the possible geometry of parts. These traditional production methods hold back innovation and prevent truly new product designs, developers often need to compromise.

A real mind shift is not possible, you miss opportunities and benefits of new design possibilities and design freedom. We can help you to realize the full potential of metal binder jetting for serial production of end parts.

Benefits of metal binder jetting

Our unique strengths and advantages

We bring our expertise as a global market leader in sintered metal components and industrial manufacturing into metal binder jetting.

Metal Binder Jetting is a process for the series production of AM parts. As the global market leader for sintered metal components, GKN can fully leverage its industrial manufacturing capabilities for the binder jetting process.

This includes the entire spectrum from product development to supply chain and quality assurance according to automotive and industry standards, including common certifications.

More strengths and advantages

Which business cases can profit most?

We are looking for business cases with a collaborative product development, designed to utilize the specific technical and economic benefits of metal binder jetting in series production.

Ideal customers

Innovative market leaders and hidden champions
Any industries, no special target markets
Companies hitting a wall with their current technologies such as metal injection molding, investment casting, complex machining, or SLM

Ideal Projects

Newly designed parts
Medium to large serial production of parts
Possible project ideas: medium distribution, bionic parts, mass customization, search for new functionalities, not yet fully defined part design

Ideal Parts

Undercuts and inner cavities
MIM-like complexity at a weight range above MIM (100g) and up to 1000g
Steel and stainless steel
Small, delicate geometries or larger, complex components with complicated assembly
Aim to achieve better resolution of details than fine casting

Our development process

Based on our many years of experience in project management and in partnership with HP, we help you to realize your ideas from the initial concept stage to industrial series production.

Our standard product development process is a robust, iterative serial production process with several optimization loops.

By analyzing and understanding the needs of your application, we work with you in iterative loops to develop a function- and cost-optimized design. We can provide near-series prototypes at short notice, even at an early project stage, and always react flexibly to your adaptation requests in development.

Our development process

Is there a faster way?

Yes, we offer an alternative fast-track, the Sprint Print:

Evaluate the technology potential of Metal Binder Jetting and order a use-case demonstrator straight to your desk!

Showpiece/use-case demonstrator will be shipped within 10 business days, without in-depth engineering (raw part only)
Part-specific volume base costs ($10/cm³)
Material: 316L, 17-4 PH and M2 like. Other materials e.g. DP600 are coming soon.
Can optionally be extended with optimization loops, leading to the standard development process for series production
We add a fully engineered technology demonstrator to each order for free!

Get your Sprint Print!