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Manufacturing of metallic parts has been performed by a novel variant of the three-dimensional printing technique. Green parts have been processed on a customized ink-jet printer by selective deposition of a solvent on powder-polymer granulate beds. Appropriated debinding and sintering treatments allowed to obtain 430L, 316L and 17-4PH stainless steel parts with good shape retention, and properties close to those of metal injection molding parts. In addition, the potential of this cost-effective technique for processing other engineering materials is shown. For instance, NiTi shape memory alloys and FeNi alloys have been successfully processed from pre-alloyed powders.

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