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Honeywell Aerospace / ProdwaysAerospacesince 2024

Honeywell Ceramic 3D-Printed Turbine Blade Molds

Ceramic investment-casting molds for turbine blades

Aerospace85% confidence
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Challenge

Turbine blade investment casting requires complex ceramic molds with fine internal features. Traditional ceramic mold fabrication uses lost-wax processes that are slow and costly to modify.

Solution

Honeywell is among the first jet engine manufacturers to use 3D-printed ceramic molds for turbine blade production — printing ceramic slurry directly into mold geometry via Prodways high-resolution vat photopolymerization. Reduces mold development time and enables design iterations impossible with traditional ceramic shell.

Outcomes
  • 01First major aero engine OEM to use ceramic AM molds for turbine blades
Technologies
Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Source

Production deployment at Honeywell's engine facilities; Prodways partnership confirmed May 2024

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APA

AM Roadmap. (2024). Honeywell Ceramic 3D-Printed Turbine Blade Molds. AM Roadmap (v0.4.2-fixes-deployed). Retrieved 2026-05-17, from https://amroadmap.com/success-stories/honeywell-ceramic-blade-molds-2024

BibTeX

@misc{amroadmap_honeywell_ceramic_3d_printed_turbine_bla_2024,
  title  = {Honeywell Ceramic 3D-Printed Turbine Blade Molds},
  author = {{AM Roadmap}},
  year   = {2024},
  url    = {https://amroadmap.com/success-stories/honeywell-ceramic-blade-molds-2024},
  note   = {AM Roadmap dataset v0.4.2-fixes-deployed, accessed 2026-05-17}
}

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