Trust MATHESON for your Additive Manufacturing Process
Sustainability has become a key driver in additive manufacturing technology. Additive Manufacturing can reduce the energy and resource requirements of current labor-intensive manufacturing processes through efficient and compact design, precision-fit materials, fewer manufacturing steps, reduced waste, and on-demand manufacturing. Metal additive manufacturing in particular relies on high purity industrial gases and precision gas mixture compositions to fabricate products that meet the stringent technical specifications and the required mechanical, physical, and metallurgical properties.
Pure Gases
Gases such as argon are an integral part of every step in additive manufacturing processes, such as metal powder atomizing, powder storage, build chamber atmosphere, and printed parts post-processing. Whether your process is Powder Bed Fusion, Laser Directed Energy Deposition Technology, Liquid Metal Jetting Technology, Wire-arc directed energy deposition (DED), or another process, MATHESON is uniquely positioned to supply high purity and ultra high purity (UHP) Nitrogen, Argon, Helium, and gas mixtures required to meet the stringent quality requirements of your additive manufacturing process.
Specialty Gas Equipment
It’s not enough to just start with the highest purity gases — impurities can be introduced through small leaks, poor connections, contamination in equipment, gas cylinder change outs, and the inability to purge your equipment. MATHESON custom designs and builds gas blending systems, specialty gas manifolds, automatic change over systems, and gas delivery systems. Most of the specialty gas equipment MATHESON manufactures is shipped within 48 hours of order.
Robotic Automation
In addition to our strong gases and gas mixtures, and specialty gas equipment supply capability, MATHESON also offers expertise in robotic automation, including system design, service, and programming expertise. Additionally, MATHESON has expertise in recommendation and custom design of dust and fumes removal solutions.
Gas Purification & Recycle Systems
MATHESON is recognized as an industry leader in purification solutions with our NANOCHEM® gas purifiers. MATHESON’s line of NANOCHEM® and Print Pure gas purifiers is specifically designed to remove the critical impurities in pure and mixture gases used for additive manufacturing to ppb (parts per billion) level, in order to ensure a robust and repeatable manufacturing process.
The large volume of gas used in the metal powders atomizing process creates an opportunity to reduce costs and lower environmental footprint by capturing and recycling the gas back to the process. Reduced virgin gas requirements lower the energy needed to produce, package and distribute the gas. For metal powder atomizing, MATHESON offers bulk argon and helium recycle systems, capable of reducing contaminants in recycled gas to single digit ppm (parts per million) level while achieving high recovery efficiency.
Powder Storage Cabinets to Keep your Powders Dry
Powder exposure to atmospheric air has a profound effect on additive manufacturing process variability and manufactured parts properties. MATHESON’s expertise in the design and construction of powder storage cabinets is well known. Unlike conventional powder storage cabinets, MATHESON cabinets store powder at tightly controlled environment to keep your powder dry and contaminant-free.
Post-Processing
Heat treating plays a key role in improving mechanical properties including the strength, durability, and performance of printed parts. Whatever your heat treating application and challenges are, MATHESON heat treat experts can offer solutions and help you achieve stringent specifications while improving productivity.
Choose MATHESON
From prototyping to mass production, additive manufacturing processes facilitate the creation of parts possessing complex geometry or unique material properties. The quality, reliability and consistency of these parts is demanded by many critical industries, including aerospace, nuclear, medical and others. Trust MATHESON’s technical expertise to keep your operation on the cutting edge.
