Streamline the Design and Production of Heat Exchange Components

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With our years of experience in metal additive manufacturing for aerospace applications, we enable you to create complex, reliable heat transfer structures - within limited volumes - that traditional manufacturing can’t match.

You can also use our metal additive manufacturing to lower your lead times and enhance the performance of critical thermal management parts that require multiple thin walls, large surface-to-volume ratios, and extremely exacting tolerances.

Overcome the Challenges of Manufacturing Heat Exchangers

  • 3D Printed Laserform Heat Exchanger for Aerospace

  • Maximize Heat Transferred Within a Limited Footprint

    Use direct metal printing to design and manufacture small, accurate, complex heat transfer structures with less assembly, shorter lead times, reduced costs, higher yield, and better component reliability.
  • Laserform Heat Exchanger Closeup for Aerospace

  • Produce Thin, Leak-Tight Walls

    Create leak-tight walls thin enough to increase efficiency between two heat-exchanging channels. Our additive manufacturing process provides the metal strength and density to ensure part reliability and performance across an increased component lifetime.
  • Aerospace Increase Surface to Volume Ratio

  • Increase Surface-to-Volume Ratios

    Design complex features for heat transfer structures with vector-level control. Our additive manufacturing solutions enable you to increase heat-exchanging surface areas while keeping your components small and lightweight. Our solutions also help you avoid the cost increases and reduced reliability of traditional manufacturing methods in these kinds of applications.

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Learn More About Our Solutions for Heat Exchanger Applications

DMP Flex 350 Duel 3D printer

DMP Flex 350, DMP Flex 350 Dual and DMP Flex 350 Triple

Robust, flexible metal 3D printer for rapid part production

Manufacture metal parts with scalable DMLS with removable build chamber for continuous printing

DMP Factory 500

Robust, high quality metal AM with integrated powder management

LaserForm AlSi10MG Heat Exchanger

LaserForm AlSi10Mg (A)

Good mechanical properties and good thermal conductivity

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3DXpert

All-in-One Integrated Software for Industrial Additive Manufacturing

DMP Factory 350 Duel 3D Printer

DMP Factory 350 and DMP Factory 350 Dual

Scalable, high quality metal AM with integrated powder management

Bracket for aerospace applications metal 3d printed with LaserForm AlSi7Mg0.6 (A) - design by Thales Alenia Space

LaserForm AlSi7Mg0.6 (A)

Light weight, good mechanical properties and improved thermal conductivity

Thales Metal Bracket LaserForm Titanium Gr. 5

LaserForm Ti Gr5 (A)

High strength, low weight, excellent biocompatibility

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Geomagic Control X

3D Inspection and Metrology Software

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  • Application Innovation Group

    Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.