Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien

Emery Oleochemicals Gmbh

Amril Ag

Juergen Waldmann

Peter Daute

Paul Schulz

Martin Witthaus

Manfred Jaeckel

Franz-Josef Carduck

Edmund Schmadel

The present invention relates to a filament suitable to be used in a 3D printing device, wherein the filament comprises a metal and/or ceramic powder, a thermoplastic binder and additives. The invention also relates to a process for producing a shaped body comprising the step of printing a shaped green body using the filament according to the invention. Also provided is the use of a filament according to the invention in a 3D printing device and a green body producible by mixing a metal and/or ceramic powder and a thermoplastic binder. The invention also relates to the use of a binder of the invention for the production of a filament for 3D printing devices.

Sinterable feedstock for use in 3D printing devices

Free-flowing, particulate foam inhibitor concentrates, which suffer no loss of activity in admixture with surfactants or strong alkalis, are prepared by compacting a mixture of from 1 to 20% by weight of the foam inhibitor with 80 to 99% by weight of a water-soluble salt or salt mixture optionally containing blending aids and having a pH value in the form of a 1% aqueous solution of from 6 to 9.5 under elevated pressure and subsequently size-reducing the compactate to an average particle size of from 0.1 to 2 mm. The presssure applied to the mixture should not significantly exceed the pressure limit at which no further compaction occurs. In addition, the particle porosity, as measured by mercury porosimetry, should be below 10%. The foam inhibitors used are preferably paraffin hydrocarbons, organopolysiloxanes and mixtures thereof with finely-divided hydrophobic solids, particularly finely-divided silica.

Process for the production of free-flowing, stable foam inhibitor

To prepare a highly effective foam inhibitor mixture consisting of paraffin hydrocarbons, hydrophobicized silica and liquid paraffin hydrocarbons, a finely divided silica is dispersed in paraffin hydrocarbons melting above 40.degree. C. and reacted with alkyl trichlorosilanes wherein the alkyl groups contain from 4 to 22 carbon atoms.

Process for the production of a foam inhibitor mixture

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Juergen Waldmann