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ExxonMobil Uses Wire-Based Metal 3D Printing to Cut Production Costs

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Jun 9, 2026Added 2 days ago

At the Baton Rouge refinery in Louisiana, ExxonMobil faced a recurring challenge: protecting instrument cabinets from oil contamination traveling up thermocouple wires. The component responsible — an anti-wicking device — had design limitations that made it expensive and slow to produce through conventional machining. Switching to Meltio’s wire-based Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) system, the M600,…

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