Oil & Gas Industry

In Haliburton and GE’s Oil & Gas divisions, the use of DMLS® has already begun. Due to 3D models drive 400W lasers to fuse micro-layers of powder together in linear and organic shapes, 3D metal printing eliminates traditional design-for-manufacture constraints. Complex internal geometries, conformal cooling channels, micro-channels, latticed and honeycombed designs, and free-form shapes are all manufacturable and economical since the DMLS® part is grown layer by layer, in tens of thousands of layers.

Parts are manufactured in days instead of months with i3DMFG™’s DMLS® production. This reduces part inventory requirements and allows for custom, one-off part solutions. The oil and gas industry is very competitive, which makes time and innovation incredibly valuable. We on-shore everything to protect designs, costly tool change times, and shipping costs.

Clean Energy

Creating production parts for the clean energy industry using DMLS® is a cost-effective and flexible option for manufacturers in the United States. Our DMLS® 3D printing process builds innovative components layer by layer, creating designs that would be too costly or impossible to manufacture via machining or casting. Held tolerances are up to +/- 0.002, allowing for precision and post-processing to even tighter tolerances. All DMLS® production is done on-shore to protect our customer’s designs and increase speed-to-market and product testing costs.

Heat Exchangers

Efficient fluid flow and heat transfer are critical in the Heat Exchanger industry. i3DMFG™’s DMLS® innovations allow for complete assemblies to be manufactured as a single metal part. Because DMLS® parts are 3D printed in thousands of micro-layers, there are unlimited options for engineers to incorporate fluid circuits built one inside the other, concentric fluid circuits, curved features for improve fluid flow, and lattice and honeycomb geometries. Welds, gaskets and joints can also easily be eliminated.