[rp-ml] Laser sintering of ceramics

Ruggero et al,

According to their web site, CAM-LEM will freeform fab parts in a variety of
ceramic materials on a contract basis. The URL is http://www.camlem.com/.
Another route you could investigate would be powder injection molding using
rapid tooling for the molds. Just for fun, we did that with nice results a
few years ago using alumina blended with HDPE and a few other ingredients.
Debinding and sintering can be tricky though.

Best regards,

Denis

Denis Cormier, Associate Professor
Edward P. Fitts Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7906
Phone: (919) 515 - 1549
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E-mail: cormier@ncsu.edu
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Received on Tue Oct 31 11:38:28 2006