UniFuse™AlSi10Mg, the ultra-low porosity aluminium powder from Uniformity Labs

Uniformity Labs (Uniformity), a provider of engineered materials, has made their UniFuse™AlSi10Mg aluminum powder available with optimised parameters for L-PBF printing at 50um and 90um layer thickness. This comes with the release of UniFuse™ AlSi10Mg and the optimisation of printing settings for 30um layer thickness.

With the greatest throughput printing across L-PBF platforms, UniFuse™ AlSi10Mg powder and processing settings are designed for best-in-class material characteristics and reproducibility at each layer thickness. Compared to similarly priced rival materials, components spanning several L-PBF platforms have been produced using the UniFuse™ AlSi10Mg powder and optimised print methods at a substantially faster rate. Through developing and manufacturing their extremely advanced ultra-low porosity metal powder feedstock, Uniformity Labs is solving the industrial difficulty of attaining serial production in additive manufacturing.

To print UniFuse AlSi10Mg aluminium powder at 50um and 90um layer thickness in platforms with lasers displaying maximum power between 400W and 700W, Uniformity Labs has recently developed High-Performance Scanning parameters. Compared to rivals' same-layer thickness scan tactics, uniformity materials and high-performance scanning give greater qualities at a building pace roughly 75% higher. For UniFuse AlSi10Mg setups, this throughput gain is common.

"With UniFuse AlSi10Mg, we're able to deliver best-in-class mechanical properties, surface finish, printing yield, and part reliability with substantially increased throughput printing at 50um and 90um layer thickness, and when using higher power lasers. This is significant for advancing AM as a viable pillar for industrial manufacturing and shows that our technology and process deliver on the promise of no compromise additive manufacturing," said Uniformity founder and CEO Adam Hopkins.

Uniformity powders can deliver improved mechanical properties and consistent performance across the build bed, even when printing at thicker layers with high laser powers, thanks to more elevated bed and tap densities and particle size distributions optimised for uniform, repeatable printing at the highest throughput.

With its High-Performance Scanning strategies, Uniformity Labs has significantly improved its capacity to produce high-quality parts repeatedly and at scale, enabling additive manufacturing to become an increasingly well-established serial production tool. These products are currently in production under UniFuse (for L-PBF) and UniJet (for binder jetting).