Additive Microwave Investment Casting
3D
Printing
MaterialS
Science
Microwave
Energy
Additive Microwave Investment Casting (AMIC) is a new hybrid advanced manufacturing process that combines 3D Printing, Materials Science, and Microwave Energy to provide significant speed, cost and energy efficiency improvements in the manufacture of complex metal parts
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 1: A pattern of the metal part to be made is 3D printed from a sacrificial polymer
Step 2: A multi-layer ceramic shell mold is formed over the 3D printed pattern
Step 3: The ceramic shell mold is heated with microwave energy to rapidly burn off the 3D printed pattern.
Step 4: The resulting mold cavity is filled with a metal powder and microwave energy is used rapidly melt the metal powder within the mold into a cast part
How It Works
Highly
Scalable
Minimized Post-Processing
Fast
Processing
Energy Efficient
cost
Effective
ENVIRONMETALLY Friendly
No pouring of molten metal
No Co2 Emissions
Benefits
Our Additive Microwave Investment Casting (AMIC) service is capable of quickly producing simple or complex metal parts up to 400mm x 400mm x 400mm in size (15.7 in x 15.7in x 15.7in)
Available metals: Stainless Steel 316, Stainless Steel 17-4 PH, Bronze, Copper, Aluminum 356
* Preview now, commercially available Q2 2023
AMIC Service
Enterprise Solutions
P3 Additive is Metallum3D's reseller partner for enterprise
scale, high volume, automated solutions utilizing our
Additive Microwave Investment Casting Process
