17-4PH is a precipitation-hardening martensitic stainless steel widely used across high-end industrial sectors. Its advantages center on three core attributes—mechanical strength, corrosion resistance, and manufacturing adaptability—while offering a balanced cost profile and broad application flexibility. As a result, it is a preferred material in aerospace, marine engineering, petrochemicals, medical devices, and other advanced manufacturing fields.

Beyond these industries, DEW has also built a strong presence in the medical sector and is certified under the ISO 13485 quality management system. Owing to its high strength, hardness, wear resistance, corrosion performance, cost efficiency, heat-treatability, and suitable biocompatibility, 17-4PH is widely used for orthopedic instruments and tooling. Alternative materials such as 440C, 420C, 316L, Co-Cr-Mo alloys, and TC4 typically fall short in toughness, hardness, manufacturability, or cost—making 17-4PH a highly practical and economical choice in this domain.

Conventional manufacturing routes for 17-4PH—casting, forging, machining, MIM, and SLM—often suffer from material waste, high tooling costs, long lead times, or significant residual stress.

Binder Jetting (BJ), as a new-generation additive manufacturing process, addresses these pain points. Its advantages include design freedom for complex geometries, no tooling requirements, rapid development cycles, high material efficiency, scalable productivity, strong mechanical properties, and competitive overall cost.

DEW has established a mature binder-jetting workflow for 17-4PH. Key performance metrics include:

• Green-part density: ≥ 60%

• Powder-bed uniformity: ≤ 1.0%

• Sintered density: ≥ 99%

• Hardness after heat treatment: ≥ 40 HRC (typically 40–44 HRC)

• Corrosion resistance: Passes medical-grade stainless-steel corrosion testing

Beyond 17-4PH, DEW also offers binder-jetted pure copper, 316L, SiC, and other material systems, delivering end-to-end solutions from research and prototyping to mass-production deployment. We provide complete turnkey technical packages or customized solutions for material substitution and application-specific innovation.

DEW has already supported leading companies across steel manufacturing, medical tools, consumer products, and consumer electronics through material qualification, pilot-scale production, and commercialization of binder-jetted components.

Looking ahead, DEW will continue advancing binder-jetting technology toward industrial maturity, helping more enterprises build new intelligent productivity and achieve manufacturing innovation, efficiency gains, and environmentally responsible production.

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