HexAM® Additive Manufacturing
HexPEKK® 3D Printed Parts for Aerospace, Space and Defense
HexAM® additive manufacturing is a sophisticated merging of PEKK high performance thermoplastic and the world's most robust additive manufacturing technology, delivering a range of fully functional, end-use parts and components. We are fundamentally improving the way the world's aircraft components are manufactured, fulfilling critical development and production contracts for 3D printed parts in a range of aircraft applications, combining high performance with significant weight and cost savings to our customers.
This technology is ideally suited for end-market applications where functional complexity and weight reduction can have a substantial and positive impact on performance, while also yielding cost and energy savings. Our products deliver sustained value for our customers.
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Our principal material of construction is a proprietary poly-ether-ketone-ketone formulation, PEKK. This high performance polymeric material has an extraordinary range of benefits that include robust mechanical performance, extreme temperature tolerance, high purity, gamma stability, and extremely high chemical resistance.
Our HexAM® additive manufacturing process uses selective laser sintering. This method is a free-form, tool-less additive manufacturing process which produces uniform, near isotropic properties with exceptional build fidelity and nearly limitless design possibilities. This manufacturing process is the state-of-the-art technology for fully functional end-use 3D-printed structural parts.
