Abstract: Disclosed herein is an injection mold for production of marbled moldings, including at least one hot runner, a cavity, an entry opening into the injection mold and an inlet into the cavity, where the hot runner has at least two ducts that are connected at a first end of each duct to the inlet into the cavity and at a second end of each duct to the entry opening into the injection mold, where the at least two ducts each at least partly form a spiral, and the at least two ducts are bounded by a one-piece component. Further disclosed herein is a process for producing the injection mold and a process for producing marbled moldings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a three-dimensional (3D) object by employing a three-dimensional (3D) printing process wherein a granulate having an particle size in the range of 0.2 to 1 mm is used as a starting material to be printed within said 3D printing process, employing a 3D extrusion printer. In one preferred embodiment, the process according to the present invention is employed for producing a 3D greenbody. The invention further relates to 3D objects as such and the corresponding processes for obtaining such 3D objects, in particular a 3D green body, a 3D brown body and a 3D sintered body.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing marbled moldings, where a first molding compound and at least one further molding compound are injected from an injection unit of a screw injection molding machine into an injection mold, where the injection unit includes a barrel, a screw having a screw tip and a nozzle where the screw is rotatable and is disposed in the barrel so as to be movable between a forward position and a backward position, with a smaller distance between the screw tip and the nozzle in the forward position than in the backward position, and where the first molding compound includes a first polymer compound and a first colorant, and the at least one further molding compound includes a further polymer compound and optionally at least one further colorant. Further disclosed herein is an apparatus for production of marbled moldings, and a process for producing the apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a three-dimensional green body (GB) by a three-dimensional (3D) printing process, in which at least one feedstock, a built chamber and a three-dimensional extrusion printer (3D printer) containing at least one nozzle are employed. In this process, the at least one feedstock is fed into the 3D printer containing the at least one nozzle, wherein the at least one feedstock comprises at least one binder (B) and at least one inorganic powder (IP), and wherein the at least one binder (B) comprises at least one polyoxymethylene (POM). The at least one feedstock is then heated inside the 3D printer and extruded through the at least one nozzle in order to obtain at least one extruded strand.