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Milling operations, particularly when conducted on thin-walled parts, often cause vibrations which impact negatively on part accuracy and on machining time. Using specialist support structures, such vibrations can be prevented during the post-processing of additive manufacturing components.

Covestro aims to develop its worldwide film production in order to meet rising demands across all regions. With a total investment of more than 100 million euros, the company also plans to expand its existing infrastructure and logistics. 

Complex shaped thin glass products, such as those found in rounded displays in smartphones and electrical appliances or touch light switches in automobiles, can be produced within a few minutes. Glass moulding, gravity slumping and vacuum or overpressure-assisted slumping are the processes of choice, that the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT from Aachen, Germany, combines for this purpose.