Meltio‘s steel AM options are serving to industries world wide to effectively manufacture and restore steel elements in 3D, consolidating their credibility available in the market. In comparison with typical manufacturing strategies, that are dearer and require giant organizational buildings in workshops, manufacturing facilities, and machine outlets, Meltio’s steel AM options are serving to industries in varied sectors achieve better manufacturing autonomy.
And that’s the place Meltio is available in. By adopting Meltio’s superior additive manufacturing steel options, that are based mostly on decreasing materials waste by utilizing welding wire-laser to create and restore elements (as an alternative of polluting steel powder), industries can work with completely different steel supplies resembling aluminum, copper, titanium, chrome steel, nickel, and invar. This enables sectors resembling automotive, protection, aerospace, mining, vitality, oil and gasoline, and lots of others to achieve manufacturing autonomy and cut back prices.

Meltio engine Integration package. Picture courtesy of Meltio.
“Steel Additive Manufacturing is rising in demand among the many world industrial sector. It solves the wants of those prospects to acquire elements and restore them, successfully and reliably, and ensures them better autonomy since Meltio’s gear is put in instantly of their workshops and manufacturing strains. We carry reliability and credibility with our disruptive expertise and this encourages us to proceed to develop and innovate our options within the subsequent six months of 2025,” defined Lukas Hoppe, Head of R&D at Meltio.
Lukas Hoppe, R&D Director at Meltio.
Meltio’s industrial prospects can print and restore elements on demand with constant, repeatable outcomes, permitting them to optimize materials utilization, obtain dependable success tales, cut back time and prices in industrial functions, and enhance general manufacturing effectivity.
The distinctive Directed Vitality Deposition (DED) steel 3D printing expertise developed by Meltio — included within the Meltio M600 industrial steel 3D printer and in different options — is gaining traction amongst completely different industries world wide to resolve their manufacturing and restore wants.
With over 10.000 km on the street and remaining with the identical preliminary situations, DMZ Engineering’s high-performance exhaust header has confirmed to be successful. Due to Meltio’s expertise, DMZ has been capable of create extraordinarily complicated geometries for optimizing exhaust flows within the combustion engine and decreasing the meeting time from eight hours to only one, due to this fact matching the worldwide automotive Stellantis Group’s calls for. One other motorsport half is the one developed by the Entreprise de Réalisations Mécaniques (ERM) in France. The turbo consumption manifold, printed with the Meltio M600 in twin materials, is able to withstanding temperatures above 800 ºC, whereas manufacturing prices and time have been decreased by 70%, in comparison with conventional strategies.

Wire steel laser 3D printing. Picture courtesy of Meltio.
Extra firms within the automotive sector, like Iveco and others in an actual industrial use circumstances, are utilizing the Meltio Robotic Cell answer on the Bourbon-Lancy plant in France to scale back manufacturing lead occasions and improve flexibility in designing and manufacturing elements; or Hirudi, producing a formidable stub axle with a 62% weight discount and a 33% sooner supply time and price discount.
That was the case of the 300mm diffuser that nobody may exchange, however due to Meltio’s AM expertise, it grew to become not solely doable to provide it, but additionally printed with improved properties. One other instance is the redesign of an educator naval half for the USS Arleigh Burke (US Navy). However a redesign and a fabric change made it straightforward to duplicate a legacy half in lower than 58 hours. A important part, like an in depth impeller, was one other profitable job for the Meltio Engine Integration for Robotic arms. Made in forged bronze in a corrosive setting wasn’t perfect. With some redesign to enhance printability and efficiency, plus switching to chrome steel 316L, a stronger half with better put on resistance was doable.
In that regard, Roez s.r.o., a Czech analysis and improvement firm, is advancing in vitality innovation with a single-print turbine case. Beforehand, a fancy and dear course of, however due to Meltio’s expertise, they have been able to printing the half in a single step, decreasing prices and time with no extra infrastructure.
“We’re utilizing Meltio’s superior additive manufacturing expertise to develop progressive specialised elements that drive vitality effectivity and inexperienced options throughout nuclear, hydro, and chemical industries.”

Meltio engine CNC integration. Picture courtesy of Meltio.
Daniel Hasic, Engineer at Roez
In Japan, Daidore Company is a producing firm with a deal with agile product improvement and environment friendly manufacturing of commercial parts. Confronted with mounting stress to streamline manufacturing and shorten improvement cycles, Daidore started evaluating superior manufacturing applied sciences that would enhance each productiveness and product high quality.
The identical applies to DPR Automatismos, a Spanish industrial integrator, which is selecting Meltio for creating steel elements due to its versatility and talent to combine with robotic techniques. Firms resembling Gary Mécanique in France and ALAR in Mexico for aerospace, and the Tecnológico de Monterrey have already adopted Meltio’s expertise.
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