No limitations.
The flexibility and freedom you have with what you choose to MELD is unmatched by any other process. With MELD, you have the opportunity to:
- Build parts with powder
- Combine powders
- Change the mix of powders
- Use small, sub-micron powders
- Use big, 2.5 millimeter powders
- Use perfectly cylindrical powders
- Use ground powders
- Use flakes of material
- Not use powders at all
MELD’s first commercially available machine, B8, uses solid bars of metal.
Solid bar is more economical than powders. It also avoids the fire hazards and operator risks associated with many metal powders.
And here’s the greatest part: we won’t tell you what to use, and we won’t force you to buy material from us.
Materials we’ve MELDed include:
Combining Powder to Make a Metal Matrix Composite (MMC)
Aluminum: Al-SiC, Al-Fe, Al-W, Al-Mo
Copper: Cu-Tungsten, Cu-Tantalum
Using Solid or Powder to Build Parts
Steel: HY 80, Stainless 316 L
Aluminum: 1xxx, 2xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx, 7xxx series
Magnesium: AZ31, WE43, E675, AMX602, E21
Titanium: Ti64
Nickel Aluminum Bronze
MELDing Solid or Powder onto a Different Material to Create a Coating or a Join Between Parts
Steel: ODS 14YWT-F82H, 300M-4140, Aermet 100-4140
Nickel: In625-HY80, In600-SS304, Cu-Ni200-Mo
Aluminum: Al-Steel
Copper: Cu-Ta, Cu-Nb, Cu-Mo
