Additive manufacturing of biocompatible ceramics

Abstract

Additive Manufacturing technologies have gained considerable influence in both the plastic and metal manufacturing industries in recent years and they are now widely-recognized as a viable manufacturing technology for these materials. The ceramic industry has, however, been reluctant to embrace Additive Manufacturing because the material properties and the accuracy of available ceramic Additive Manufacturing technologies were insufficient for the manufacturing of functional parts. To address this limitation, Lithoz GmbH has developed a unique process for the additive manufacturing of high-performance ceramics to a very high quality and with excellent dimensional accuracy. Ceramic parts produced with Lithoz’ Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) Technology have the same material properties as those produced with conventional forming technologies.