LiM Laser Metal 3D Printer LiM-X400M Series: Driving Manufacturing Upgrades in the Consumer Goods Industry
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Time:2025-05-16
Metal 3D printing technology is developing from aerospace and other high-end manufacturing fields to civil manufacturing industry, especially in 3C electronics, precision molds, automotive parts and other production scenarios show unique value, not only can accurately realize the one-piece molding of large-size complex components, but also to meet the time requirements of small batch customized production. LiM Laser LiM-X400M series of equipment for consumer goods industry LiM Laser's LiM-X400M series of equipment provides users with a full chain of metal additive manufacturing solutions from prototype development to mass production, and continues to promote the traditional manufacturing model to the direction of digitalization and flexibilization.
LiM-X400M equipment comes standard with a 3×500W laser, which supports upgrading to 2×3000W ultra-high-power lasers with a print layer thickness of up to 0.4mm, significantly improving production efficiency. The device is equipped with a 3000W multi-mode laser that can be flexibly switched to single-mode mode to maintain 500W power output. This intelligent configuration enables the equipment to realize both rapid manufacturing of large layer thickness and fine printing of regular layer thickness, which is compatible with the diversified production needs from rough parts to fine parts.
After full market validation, the upgraded LiM-X400M+ equipment expands the molding size to 400mm×300mm×450mm (W×D×H), providing a more cost-effective solution for the 3C electronics, mold making, automotive manufacturing and other industries. The equipment can be equipped with an optional melt pool monitoring system, which realizes the state monitoring and quality diagnosis of the whole printing process through real-time monitoring and intelligent analysis of the melt pool information in the printing process, ensuring stable and reliable product quality.
Mold Manufacturing Field: Technical Innovation
Traditional mold manufacturing relies on CNC machining, EDM and other subtractive processes, and there are pain points such as long cycle, high cost, and difficult to modify. Metal 3D printing technology is breaking through the traditional manufacturing limitations to additive thinking for mold manufacturing industry to inject new momentum.

Waterway
Printing device:LiM-X400M+
Printing Time:120h
Single piece size:343mmx242mmx120mm
Printing Material:Mold Steel MS1
LiM-X400M+ is used for manufacturing waterway molds for automotive parts. Compared with traditional machining techniques, it eliminates cutting steps, reduces machining difficulty, shortens machining time, improves material utilization, and makes the production process more environmentally friendly. The waterway channel of the mold can completely fit the complex curved shape of the part to achieve uniform cooling, which helps to reduce the defects of the part; it can also avoid cracking caused by local overheating of the traditional waterway mold, and prolong its service life. In the mold design verification stage, no need to open and repair the mold, direct printing and shaping, significantly shortening the verification cycle.

Large-size mold blanks
Printing device:LiM-X400M
Printing time:148h
Size of single piece:344mmx204mmx85mm
Printing material:Stainless steel 420
This mold blank has rich internal flow paths and complex structure, which breaks through the limitation of traditional linear water paths to achieve more uniform cooling paths and shorten the cooling time, which helps to reduce the deformation of the injection molded parts and improve the consistency of the products. The large-size mold is formed in one piece, reducing the later splicing and assembling process, eliminating the risk of seam leakage, and enhancing the overall stability.
Metal 3D printing technology provides a revolutionary solution for large-size waterway molds, significantly improving manufacturing efficiency and product performance.
Consumer Electronics: Manufacturing Upgrade
In recent years, metal 3D printing technology is accelerating the penetration of consumer electronics (3C) field, by virtue of its high degree of freedom of design, material utilization rate and other characteristics, for the industry to open up a both “performance upgrading” and “cost-effective” manufacturing path, but also opened up a new way of “on-demand” consumer electronics parts. It also opens up a new era of “on-demand design and rapid iteration” for consumer electronics components.
LiM-X400M series equipment, with its high-quality, high-efficiency, high-precision molding capability and high yield rate, realizes the leapfrog development from prototype trial production to large-scale mass production of watch frames, hinges, cell phone frames and other precision parts.

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In the era of intelligent manufacturing, LiM Laser has always taken technological innovation as the anchor point to build a full-dimensional metal additive manufacturing ecosystem covering R&D, production and application. In the future, we will continue to deepen our technology research and development and process innovation capabilities, and empower the global manufacturing industry to break the traditional production boundaries with smarter and more efficient metal 3D printing equipments, so as to draw a new picture of the development of the industry in the dual dimensions of quality improvement and efficiency and sustainable development.
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