What would you do with a material that was so easy to cut
you can carve it with a knife, yet can be directly transformed
within days into solid metal?
metaMETAL enables rapid prototyping and manufacture of metal
components by avoiding the intensive effort required when
machining solid metals. It works by substituting composite
blocks of metal powder and polymer binder materials. Cutting
tools only have to cut the plastic holding the powder together.
It's so easy that machining can be completed faster with no
lubricants, stress, warping, or work hardening, and with minimal
tool wear and low tool forces. Use smaller diameter tools with
longer cut lengths at higher feedrates and less worry about tool
breakage. This also helps simplify toolpath generation.
Send your cut parts to a metaMETAL processing center where we
remove the binder and consolidate the remaining powder into a
solid component. We send the finished parts back to you within a
week*. The dense sintered parts perform just like parts made
from the base metal. Best of all, the parts look great without
cleanup. Even fine details are preserved.
metaMetal is perfect for creating stainless steel parts on smaller
desktop CNC or engraving machines. It speeds up machining time,
allows you to use smaller diameter cutting tools with less tool
breakage, and improves your resource utilization.
NEW: Machining Demonstration Video showing a light-duty CNC machine
cutting a 3.6 mm thick plate of metaMETAL at 22 mm/sec with a
6.35 mm (1/8 inch) diameter carbide end mill.
Benefits
For Manufacturing
Makes it easier to machine metal parts
Use smaller diameter tools with less tool breakage
Increased depth of cut and feedrates
Better feature definition than most castings
Machine even very hard metals with ease
Less machining time leads to better resource utilization
For Product Development, R&D, Reengineering
Create prototype metal parts without tooling
Experiment with different materials more easily
Use prototype parts for performance testing
Design parts with greater complexity
More Information
For more information, click on the links below to download product
literature in Adobe PDF format.
metaMETAL enables rapid prototyping and manufacture of metal
components by avoiding the intensive effort required when
machining solid metals. It works by substituting composite
blocks of metal powder and polymer binder materials. Cutting
tools only have to cut the plastic holding the powder together.
It's so easy that machining can be completed faster with no
lubricants, stress, warping, or work hardening, and with minimal
tool wear and low tool forces. Use smaller diameter tools with
longer cut lengths at higher feedrates and less worry about tool
breakage. This also helps simplify toolpath generation.
Send your cut parts to a metaMETAL processing center where we
remove the binder and consolidate the remaining powder into a
solid component. We send the finished parts back to you within a
week*. The dense sintered parts perform just like parts made
from the base metal. Best of all, the parts look great without
cleanup. Even fine details are preserved.
metaMetal is perfect for creating stainless steel parts on smaller
desktop CNC or engraving machines. It speeds up machining time,
allows you to use smaller diameter cutting tools with less tool
breakage, and improves your resource utilization.
NEW: Machining Demonstration Video showing a light-duty CNC machine
cutting a 3.6 mm thick plate of metaMETAL at 22 mm/sec with a
6.35 mm (1/8 inch) diameter carbide end mill.