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3D printing, as a digitized advanced manufacturing technology, offers unique advantages in design freedom and flexible manufacturing, making it particularly suitable for forming complex and irregular structures, conformal cooling channels, venting structures, lightweight structures, and more. Based on our application experience, Lamotek's 3D printing technology can provide an average return on investment of up to 500% for mold customers!

3D printing technology has brought significant value innovation to injection molds, die-casting molds, etc. in the automotive field.

In the field of automotive injection molding, as component designs become increasingly complex, the structure of the entire mold also tends to become more complicated. For some high-value molds, issues such as cooling, trapped air, and processing costs/cycles have become more prominent. LAMOTEK, taking into account the pain points of customers in the automotive injection molding field, has developed highly targeted 3D printing solutions through a series of design innovations, process innovations, and material innovations. These solutions are widely used in automotive scenarios such as car lights, connectors, interior parts, and charging facilities.

Automotive electronic connector shell injection mold

Demand: Improve product deformation and surface quality, product warpage and shorten injection molding cycle

Solution: 18Ni300 material + LTQ ultra-dense printing process

Benefit: Improved warpage deformation, reduced cooling time from 32 seconds to 25 seconds, an increase of 21%

In the die casting field, due to more severe working conditions, molds endure greater thermal loads and thermal shocks, requiring very high standards for conformal cooling and solidification control. LAMOTEK, targeting the characteristics of die-casting molds, has innovatively introduced 3D printing mold materials that are more suitable for die casting. Combined with LAMOTEK's leading design and process capabilities, we provide customers with superior die casting mold solutions.

Die-casting diverter cone mold

Demand: Solve the problem of excessively high local hot spot temperatures and shorten the die-casting molding cycle

Solution: LAMO-H480 material + LTQ ultra-dense printing process

Benefits: By incorporating 3D printed inserts, the local hot spot temperature decreased from 453 degrees Celsius to 214 degrees Celsius, resulting in a 23% increase in die casting cycle time.

Die-cast beam body insert

Demand: Reduce the temperature of local hot spots and improve product qualification rate

Solution: LAMO-H480 material + LTQ ultra-dense printing process

Benefits: Improve product surface quality, product qualification rate increased from 70% to 98%