More evidence of growth, partnership and consolidation in low cost metal 3D printing, resulting from applications of Metal Injection Mold (MIM) materials in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) / Atomic Diffusion Additive Manufacturing, pioneered by companies like MarkForged, Desktop Metal, HP and BASF.
Tekna's collaboration with Aperam, in Nickel and Specialty steel powders, should signal to investors that spheroidization of mechanically milled powders represents a viable production path to industrial scaling.
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