10. November 2022
Knockout already in round one? Clear the ring for the battle of the 3D printing processes!
Welcome to a fight of the extra class, where it is about nothing less than the title "World Champion Industrial 3D Printing" ". In one corner: Extrusion printing (FFF – Fused Filament Fabrication and FGF – Fused Granulate Fabrication) - represented by "Doc Medeiros"; the Brazilian Thiago Medeiros Araujo - known for his passionate, spirited fighting style. And in the opposite corner: the powder pressure - represented by "Doc Rechberger"; the German Marcus Rechberger, known for his extremely persistent fighting style. The fight goes over six rounds ...
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8. September 2022
Technical plastic parts: From the material to the processing to the component design
Highly stressed plastic parts can be found in a wide variety of applications. From medical technology to the energy industry to the automotive industry. In surgery in the form of breast spreaders and in the field of diagnostics in the form of endoscopic handles; in wind turbines in ball bearing cages and in cars in brake boosters or exhaust gas recirculation valves. As different as the demands may be – they all have an extremely high requirement profile in common. Characterized by high temperatures, mechanical/dynamic loads, the highest demands on strength, impact strength and/or rigidity. How do plastic parts ensure this? How technical plastics or high-performance plastics help to keep people healthy or technical systems running day and night or enable them to perform at their best? You can find the answers here.
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31. August 2022
3D printing materials for industrial applications. From hobby to professional printing.
3D printing is impressively complex: It is new and also already established. On the one hand, it stands for technology of the future, and on the other hand, many designers - still (?) - don't know what to do with it. It provides answers and at the same time raises questions. For some it is their new hobby, for others it is already an established production technique; for some it is the new hype and for others it is already lived routine. And wherever you are in terms of 3D printing and what you know or think about it - for us at LEHVOSS, it is an industrial application that we have been serving for over 10 years with material developments and, above all, material advancements.
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22. August 2022
What are long fiber thermoplastics (LFT)?
Long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (LFT) are pioneers and enablers. For new ways of thinking, new designs, new components; for breaking down classic manufacturing thought patterns; for opening up new design freedom and thus ultimately for gaining degrees of freedom. The pivot, or rather the art, for the material developer is to ensure that as many long fibers as possible are incorporated into the injection molded part. From the initial state as granules, through processing in the mold, and into the component. Only then can LFT develop their advantages to the full extent.
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27. June 2022
The role of the material developer in the development process for technical plastic components.
The role that the material developer plays (or ideally should play) quickly becomes clear if you take a closer look at the entire chain - from product development to application development to the tooling/processing process - in plastics production or plastics compounding. Then you quickly come to the conclusion that the material developer plays a very decisive, major role. The earlier he is involved in the material selection process, the more efficiently the selection of the potentially suitable material can be narrowed down. His range of applications extends from the selection of the potentially suitable polymer base and the appropriate additives to the right tool and process design. This means that a good material developer actually plays several roles at once.
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9. June 2022
Tribological high-performance compounds - true all-rounders.
When the keywords "high performance" or "all-rounder" are mentioned, the air is generally thin - at the latest, this is where the wheat begins to separate from the chaff. This applies all the more to plastics and polymers in tribological applications. When speeds, pressure ratios, operating times or temperatures in sliding or ball bearings, for example, increase massively, when the requirements for sliding friction properties and the expectations for TCO optimization grow at the same time, and when the performance capabilities of standard plastics such as POM, PBT or polyamides reach their limits - then high-performance polymer-based compounds come into play.
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23. May 2022
High-performance compounds in automotive engineering. 8 important aspects for innovative designers.
The topic of high-performance compounds consists of far more than PEEK and Co. Every designer who is looking for new ways to replace metal, for example - whether for reasons of weight or corrosion - must be aware that, as an innovative pioneer, he is embarking on "winding paths full of stumbling blocks". This article is intended to show what needs to be taken into account to ensure that development projects with high-performance compounds are successful.
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6. May 2022
High-strength thermoplastics for bicycle components: How compounders/application developers are helping to further increase the scope for innovation for designers.
Cycle chic, e-bike boom, bike culture, low-tech, high-tech, bike highways - the bike is in the midst of its reinvention; in the midst of a transformation from a mere means of transportation and sports equipment to an expression of a serene, sustainable, individual attitude to life. More and more people around the world are attaching the same emotional significance to the bicycle as they once did to the car. This makes the bicycle one of the main players in the mobility megatrend. In the midst of this megatrend are also the people who create one of the technological foundations for bicycle designers and their innovative design ideas for bicycle components of all kinds: the plastics compounders or application developers who ensure the composition and thus the performance of the required materials.
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7. April 2022
Tribological plastic compounds: Infinitely specific.
What at first sounds like squaring the circle, however, ultimately describes "only" the work of a really good plastics compounder: to always condense the unique, specific solution for the respective requirement from an almost unlimited number of potential solution options/tribological plastic compounds. Namely, exactly the plastic compound that contributes significantly to a convincing intermediate or end product - from all decisive points of view. Since these products are mostly invisible in everyday life, we will focus on them here today: The different areas of application for tribological plastic compounds.
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11. March 2022
High-performance plastics in medical technology: How compounders make life easier for patients, doctors and product developers.
Helping people get healthy or even survive is a multi-faceted, multi-layered team effort. In the field of sophisticated medical technology, this comprehensive spectrum also includes all the people who provide the appropriate high-performance plastics for the development of precisely this technology: the plastics compounders who ensure the optimum composition/performance of the required materials.
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Topics
- 3D printing (6)
- 3D printing filament (4)
- Additive manufacturing (3)
- Application development (2)
- Application technology (2)
- Bicycle components (1)
- Carbon fiber (2)
- Carbon fiber compounds (2)
- Carbon footprint (3)
- CFRP processing (1)
- Chemical resistance (1)
- Coefficient of friction (2)
- Compounds (6)
- Conductivity (1)
- Contract manufacturing (1)
- Cost reduction (3)
- Customized compounds (1)
- Design suitable for plastics (2)
- Development process (1)
- Energy saving (1)
- Extrusion (4)
- Extrusion printing (2)
- Fluoropolymers (1)
- Friction (2)
- Functional prototypes (1)
- High temperature resistance (1)
- High-performance compounds (7)
- High-temperature plastics (2)
- Individual (1)
- Injection moulding (2)
- Innovation (1)
- Laser sintering powder (2)
- LCF (1)
- LFT (2)
- LGF (1)
- Lightweight construction (3)
- Long fiber compounds (1)
- Long fiber theromplastics (2)
- Material development (5)
- Metal replacement (6)
- Metal substitute (1)
- Mold design (1)
- Orthopedic technology (1)
- Orthoses (1)
- PAEK (1)
- PEEK (2)
- Plain bearings (1)
- Plastics (7)
- Powder bed fusion (1)
- Process design (1)
- Recycling (2)
- Reproducibility (1)
- Serial production (1)
- Sliding pairing (1)
- Sterilizability (1)
- Stiffness (1)
- Strength (3)
- Sustainability (4)
- Technical plastics (2)
- Toll compounding (1)
- Tooling (1)
- Tribological plastics (3)
- Tribology (4)
- Wear (2)
- Weight saving (2)