News release: Renishaw opens UK’s only manufacturing facility for laser-sintered Cobalt Chrome dental frameworks (doc)

Renishaw, the world’s largest supplier of in-lab CAD/CAM scanning machines, has opened a new facility that will allow the manufacture of low cost CAD/CAM frameworks using pure, certified medical-grade Cobalt Chrome metal. The new copings and frameworks will be produced using an advanced rapid manufacturing technology called Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), and will allow dental laboratories to offer a high quality, lower cost alternative to ceramic restorations, which Renishaw is calling Laser PFM™.