The award-winning EOS M 290 employs Direct Metal Laser Solidification (DMLS) technology. This powder-bed based form of 3D printing ensures maximum part density and exceptional quality. With the most extensive materials portfolio on the market and a powerful 400-watt fiber laser beam for superior detail resolution, the EOS M 290 is ideal for producing highly complex components in a repeatable, production-ready manner for a broad range of applications. EOS is the world’s leading technology provider for additive manufacturing solutions with metals and plastics through 3D printers, materials and software.

Our extrusion press turns novel aluminum and magnesium alloys into production-grade profiles for startup volumes, accelerating the jump from prototype to market. Billets are precisely preheated and driven through custom dies to create uniform cross-sections ready for straightening, cut-to-length, and downstream finishing. Capabilities include up to 1,344 U.S. tons of force, sections to 50 in, and furnace preheat to 900 °F for 80 lb billets. Ideal for aerospace, automotive/EV, electronics/telecom, renewable energy, transit, and construction—send your target profile and volumes to kick off a pilot run.

LIFT’s Advanced Metallics Production and Processing Center(AMPP) includesa full suite of metal powder production and processing equipment with the aim of producing development quantities of various novel metal alloys. Our Arcast inert gas atomizer has the ability to produce metal powders including aluminum, steel, titanium, and refractory metals. Our Arcast spheroidizer allows for shape optimization of metal powders for additive applications. We also have an attrition mill for mechanical alloying & a vibratory sieve for precision particle size sorting.

LIFT has worked with Fenn to design and install metal wire production capabilities to produce development quantity batches of novel alloy wires for both traditional welding & additive processes. Rods are fed through a rotary swager either hot or cold to reduce the cross-section area of the material. Once the material is down to a suitable diameter, the bullblock wire draw pulls the material through a die to reduce the wire to suitable weld wire diameters. Material can be stress relieved throughout the process utilizing our vacuum heat treat furnace.

Producing new chemistries is vital to new alloy development. To accomplish this LIFT utilizes a dual-stage vacuum induction furnace capable of melting all metals up to 2200°C using hot or cold crucibles for rod and billet casting. Combined with an additional open-air induction furnace for non-reactive metals, this fast, precise, and efficient process supports downstream wire production, atomizing, extrusion and casting applications.