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FROM LOST-WAX INVESTMENT CASTING TO SELECTIVE LASER MELTING
With the SLM 50, Realizer delivers the globally first SLM™ desktop machine for manufacturing components made of metal.The desktop device has been designed for the manufacturing of components with a diameter of up to 70 mm and a height of up to 40 mm. Realizer, in its function as technology leader, can fall back on many years of experience with this process in the development of SLM™ machines. As the developers of Selective Laser Melting, in 1999 they launched the world-wide first SLM™ machine for the manufacturing of components made from metallic materials

Selective Laser Melting For Selective Laser Melting (SLM™ ), the work piece is directly created in layers, based on 3D data. To effect this, metal powder (e.g. stainless steel, tool steel, cobalt chrome, or gold) is applied in thin layers and melted on at the predetermined locations using a powerful fibre laser. Following each melting process, the work platform is lowered so that the next layer can be applied. This way, precise and complex functional components are created which not only feature the same material properties as conventionally produced components but can also be processed the same way