How 3D Printing Aids Sustainability for Semiconductor Equipment | The Cool Parts Show Bonus

For episode #72 of The Cool Parts Show, we visited Norsk Titanium to learn how directed energy deposition (DED) metal additive manufacturing makes a wing splice for General Atomics. While we were there, we learned about another, non-aerospace application as well. Machine builder Hittech was machining the precise, rigid carrier trays required for semiconductor production out of solid blocks of titanium, but the costs included 90% material waste and 30 or more spent cutting tools for every part. In search of a more sustainable solution it could present to its customer, Hittech found Norsk’s proprietary DED process, Rapid Plasma Deposition (RPD). Now, carrier trays for the Dutch company are manufactured through RPD at the Norsk facility in Plattsburgh, New York, where we filmed this episode.
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Hittech Bihca
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Norsk Titanium and Rapid Plasma Deposition
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General Atomics’ use of RPD to make flight-critical aircraft parts (our previous episode)
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