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• Swedish firm VBN Components has been making high-performance, high-wear additive powders for a number of years now. Usually working with high-carbide-content materials, the company has brought the hardest 3D printing...
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Swedish firm VBN Components has been making high-performance, high-wear additive powders for a number of years now. Usually working with high-carbide-content materials, the company has brought the hardest 3D printing steel to market, as well as biocompatible materials. Now the company has increased the wear resistance of slurry pumps. Working with an unnamed pump company (possibly Atlas Copco, Metso, or Grindex), they’ve developed a new path to industrial components. Using their Vibenite materials, they’ve made possible a Vibenite Nucleation Net Zone (VNNZ), which makes for easier bonding of cast iron to Vibenite 480, the company’s 66 HRC cemented carbide material. The VNNZ makes it easier to cast these parts. What the company is now doing is to make parts out of traditional casting method