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  • Four men in suits during the HAI and Hycobility signing.

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    HAI and Hycobility Launch New Aluminum and Wood Hybrid Material

    Hammerer Aluminium Industries (HAI) in Ranshofen, Austria, entered into a strategic partnership with Hycobility Engineering & Technologies to successfully establish the innovative hybrid material HycoFusion®, which consists of aluminum and wood, for new industrial applications. “For the HAI Group, this partnership underlines our ambition to shape future markets at an early stage and to translate […]

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    New Method Combines 3D Printing with Aluminum Casting for Damage-Tolerant Components

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rice University have developed a new manufacturing method that combines 3D printing with traditional casting in order to produce damage-tolerant components composed of multiple materials. The A356/316L composite components have showed a significantly greater damage tolerance than aluminum alone. “This scalable processing strategy can be used to fulfill specific component functions, giving […]