From concept to creation, Carpenter Additive enables you to unlock the potential of Additive Manufacturing to take your designs into full‑scale AM production.
At Carpenter Additive, we're serious about AM with global facilities dedicated to supporting end-to-end metal additive manufacturing. Customers rely on our team of metallurgists and additive manufacturing experts for material identification and custom alloy atomization, metal additive part production, HIPping, post-process machining, vacuum sintering, and accredited material validation.
Carpenter Additive is machine and process agnostic with a variety of solutions and to meet customers' requirements. With AS9120 , AS9100 , ISO9001 and ISO13485 certifications, we have a proven track record of defining and qualifying AM processes across applications and safety-critical industries. Mechanical and physical characterization, as well as complete qualification data packages are available. Eliminate outsourcing risk and partner with the only source of additive expertise from powder to part.
Metal AM systems provide users the geometric freedom to design for functionality while lightweighting, reducing assembly, or improving performance. Powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing remains the most widely-used metal production process, where powerful fiber lasers or electron beams melt metallic powder in selected areas defined by the CAD design. Carpenter Additive's team of material experts operate a wide range of machines, from powder bed to binder jet, to offer customers tailored production solutions.
Carpenter Additive features the only quick-HIP furnace at its Emerging Technology Center. In a HIP process the material is subjected to elevated temperatures and uniform high pressures to help remove microstructural defects from as-built AM parts, such as porosity or lack of fusion. To ensure material quality by spending as little time at high temperatures as necessary as well as for lowering cycle times, our HIP furnace features pressures up to 30 ksi and argon quenching capability, providing Carpenter engineers with complete control over the material’s structure and properties.
Our highly flexible machine shop features a range of equipment to ensure customers are delivered a precise final product. After the printing and de-powdering process, our in-house production facility offers a vacuum heat treat furnace for stress relief, band-saw and EDM machines for removal from the build plate, plus CNC lathes and five-axis mills for precision tolerance finishes.
Our metrology lab sits at the core of our quality assurance protocols with lab equipment to measure part geometries and compare measurements to customer requirements, search for microscopic pores, and test the strength of additively manufactured material, ensuring we deliver what our customers ask for.
Our Athens, Alabama-based ETC drives the commercialization of new technologies within Carpenter Technology. Completed in November, 2019 with 50,000-square foot production space for the development and expansion of end-to-end customer project development and manufacturing support.
The world-class facility has the ability to take a range of metal alloy feedstock, atomize it into powder and manufacture powder into finished parts using AM technology, post-process machinery and heat treatment furnaces. Underpinning the whole process is a digital thread that maintains full traceability and analytical insights from powder to finished metal part. Those parts can then be qualified for use in a range of cross-industry applications from aerospace and transportation to oil and gas and energy.
