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Ricoh's latest development set to cut costs & improve accuracy in aluminium binder jetting method

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Update time : 2025-01-10 17:34:15
Ricoh Company, Ltd., headquartered in Kanagawa, Japan, has introduced an innovative process to join aluminium components produced through Binder Jetting (BJT) with wrought aluminium alloys. Metal Binder Jetting is a highly efficient and cost-effective Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique, suitable for both prototyping and mass production.

This breakthrough not only overcomes size limitations traditionally associated with Binder Jetting but also holds the potential to substantially lower production costs. However, Ricoh notes that the sintering process inherent to BJT can pose challenges in maintaining precision when fabricating larger components.

About the innovation

Ricoh has addressed these challenges with its newly developed diffusion bonding technology for sintered materials produced using the Binder Jetting (BJT) method. This innovation leverages the company's proprietary liquid-phase sintering technology, which proves highly effective in manufacturing high-performance heat exchangers and other advanced applications.

Takafumi Sasaki, head of the metal BJT project at Ricoh, stated, "This unique bonding technology will achieve both improved cooling efficiency and reduced component costs, and also allow for larger component sizes. This technology will bring our customers closer to utilising aluminium BJT in the manufacturing field. We plan to further validate its manufacturing feasibility in the real market through collaborations with our customers."

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