Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)

Selective laser sintering is a technique for the additive manufacturing of finished parts/products of any shape that are joined by a laser. A layer of powdered metal is placed on the machine’s work table and selectively sintered in an area defined by the shape of this layer using a concentrated photon beam generated by a laser. Depending on the design of the machine, movement in the Z (vertical) axis is performed by the work table or the head. When the work is complete, the item is extracted from the unsintered powder. Unlike the selective melting of SLM materials, the SLS process does not completely melt the powder materials.