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Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing

Binder Jetting

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Binder jetting prints three-dimensional structures by fusing powdered material together with a binder. The technique can produce colorful builds using metals, polymers, or ceramics. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) implements various binder jetting techniques for AM. Learn more about our binder jetting work by exploring the content below. If you would like guidance on additive manufacturing efforts or a chance to use our resources, please explore our various research opportunities and/or contact us.

Learn about our binder jetting efforts by exploring the content below.
Tools & Instruments | Publications

an abstract rainbow colored shape 3D printed by fusing powdered material together
The binder jetting  technique can produce complex structures, like this multicolored abstract model. 
Credit: Adobe Stock

Tools & Instruments

Learn about our instrumentation for binder jetting by selecting the plus icon (+) below.

Additive Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC)

The NIST Additive Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC) is a state-of-the-art facility for conducting measurement science research for metals-based additive manufacturing. Learn more.

Industrial metal printer in lab setting, measures approx 2.5 m wide, 1.3 m deep, 2.2 m tall. A fiber laser delivers energy to an enclosed chamber where powder is melted layer-by-layer to build a part. Gas cylinders deliver argon that's blown through the chamber, filtered, and recirculated. The printer has a viewing window, touch screen panel, and computer monitors reporting data from fringe projection measurements of the powder bed and solid layers and co-axial photodiode measurements of the melting process
The AMCR facility has systems for metals-based AM research. This production-representative 400-watt LB-PBF system (pictured above) has the capability to build parts from stainless steel, aluminum, titanium alloy, nickel alloy, and cobalt-chrome powders in either a Nitrogen or Argon environment.
Credit: NIST

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NIST AM publishes research about binder jetting for additive manufacturing. View some of our publications here.

Manufacturing, Additive manufacturing, Materials, Metrology and Standards

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Created November 15, 2024, Updated May 16, 2025