A.MANNESMANN manufactures highly-dynamic ball screws and sophisticated machine elements with high accuracy in a high degree of slenderness up to 15 m.

Use in additive manufacturing technologies is a relatively recent application for telescopic ball screws. Very complex workpieces in special metals, such as titanium, can be manufactured extremely precisely in layers by using 3D laser melting or sintering. This layered structure of the workpiece requires a very accurate infeed system to be housed in a confined installation space. AM telescopic ball screws generate infeed steps in very tight tolerance ranges, and it does so over long stroke movements.