Integrating Passive Cooling for High-Efficiency Thermal Management
An award-winning Martinrea and Equispheres collaboration delivers an Additive Manufacturing solution for improving heat transfer in an e-motor housing. As systems get faster, smaller and more integrated, thermal management is becoming
Integrating Passive Cooling for High-Efficiency Thermal Management
Automotive supplier Martinrea teamed up with Equispheres to redesign and rebuild an off-the-shelf e-motor housing. The award-winning project used optimized aluminum powder and LBPF control techniques for vastly improved thermal
Revolutionizing Metal Additive Manufacturing: Faster Builds, Lower Costs, and Superior Surface Finish
A game-changing collaboration between Equispheres, Aconity3D, and Dyndrite has transformed metal additive manufacturing. Their innovations deliver 9x faster production, 80% cost reductions, and superior surface finishes, breaking longstanding trade-offs in
Case Study: Safer AM Powder Makes Aluminum Available for Innovators: Universities, SMEs
Researchers at SDU have successfully added aluminum to their AM capabilities using Equispheres’ NExP-1 AlSi10Mg, which was chosen for its safer storage and handling characteristics, as well as its reliable
Case Study: The Need for Speed – Automakers Improve Production Time with High-performance Powders
Two automakers reveal how they have achieved significant increases in the production speed of aluminum parts made by additive manufacturing.
Case Study: Defense Contractor Achieves Higher Precision and Better Properties
For producers in the aerospace and defense sector, part performance, part reliability and cost are critical factors. This manufacturer confirmed it could reliably produce parts with higher dimensional accuracy and
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Canada’s Defense Industrial Strategy Is Good News for Advanced Manufacturing
Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy commits $81.8 billion to rebuilding the military and explicitly names aluminum as a priority supply chain input. Equispheres CEO Kevin Nicholds breaks down what the strategy
Award-Winning EV Cooling Project Demonstrates Additive Manufacturing Applications in Automotive
An award-winning automotive application shows how Additive Manufacturing is being used to address real thermal management challenges.
Metal Additive Manufacturing with Fieldmade Enables Field Repair in Remote Environments
Additive Manufacturing military applications include remote spare-parts production. See how deployable AM units from Fieldmade support field repair & readiness.
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Impact of Powder Size, Size Distribution and Morphology on Additive Manufacturing
What’s the secret to consistent parts? Dr. Conlon explains how various powder characteristics affect key mechanical properties in the final product—dimensional accuracy, hardness, surface roughness, tensile strength, yield strength, and
Understanding the Factors Influencing Powder Spreadability For Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Powder flow behaviour is an important aspect of the build process. How can we achieve good spreadability to create consistent powder layering and, ultimately, high-quality parts?