Metal Working

One of the rapidly evolving high-tech metal treatment method is laser cutting. The nitrogen blanket eliminates the problem of metal cut oxidation.

Nitrogen also appears to be the best possible option in case cuts are further supposed to be painted, inclusive of applying powder paint. Laser cutting enjoys a more general application than oxygen cutting.

Nitrogen cutting offers advantages as follows:

• narrow cutting width/li>
• high precision
• quality cut
• small thermal influence area

Nitrogen laser metal treatment enables to fabricate hugely complex parts and is instrumental in making pinholes.

Having been custom-designed by Grasys specialists, nitrogen generators Nitropower for metal laser cutting enable to produce gaseous nitrogen of the desired purity and capacity for your laser cutter. Technology compliance is vital to improving production operations.

Lots of different 3D printer models are available on the current market. By using advanced industrial 3D printers, parts are made for a wide variety of areas in mechanical engineering, aircraft building, and rocket science.

Metal powder is used in printers that find broad industrial application for manufacturing metal parts, including those of steel, metal alloys, aluminum, titanium, cobalt chromium and inconel, with material selective laser melting technology. In order to avoid reactive metal oxidation, operating procedure is required to ensure oxygen-free atmosphere in the fusible particle fluid - nitrogen and argon are used with this aim in view.

To provide nitrogen for uninterrupted operation and potentially continuous running-duty of a three-dimensional industrial printer, it is suitable to use bottled nitrogen, as well as to produce gaseous nitrogen at the 3D products manufacturing site using adsorption nitrogen units or Grasys small-size nitrogen generators, which will be more convenient and cost-effective with a certain volume of consumed nitrogen. The use of bottled nitrogen requires ensuring safe storage and involves dependence on the bottled inert gas supply.

R&P Co. Grasys is engaged in developing and manufacturing low-capacity nitrogen generators Nitropower specifically for 3D printing applications.