Additive Manufacturing: AMUG Conference Highlights Industrialization of Polymer 3D PrintersApril 5, 2019August 3, 2021 | The Essentium TeamShare “One theme I found among the technologies showcased at this year’s Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference is the industrialization of polymer 3D printers. In the past, additive manufacturing machines for plastics have tended to be enlarged or amplified versions of machines developed for prototyping. By contrast, the 2019 AMUG Conference included various additive equipment makers showing redesigned offerings—machines or machine technology departing from traditional design or capabilities to address the needs of industrial use.Examples: Essentium. The polymer 3D printer at AMUG most fully designed for industrial production likely was this company’s High Speed Extrusion machine, a 3D printer built on a platform derived from machines making semiconductors. Using linear motors in X and Y and ballscrews in Z to achieve precise high-speed motion, this FFF machine looks and moves not like a machine with origins in prototyping, but in fact much more like a CNC machine tool.”Read More: Additive MagazineShare
“One theme I found among the technologies showcased at this year’s Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference is the industrialization of polymer 3D printers. In the past, additive manufacturing machines for plastics have tended to be enlarged or amplified versions of machines developed for prototyping. By contrast, the 2019 AMUG Conference included various additive equipment makers showing redesigned offerings—machines or machine technology departing from traditional design or capabilities to address the needs of industrial use.Examples: Essentium. The polymer 3D printer at AMUG most fully designed for industrial production likely was this company’s High Speed Extrusion machine, a 3D printer built on a platform derived from machines making semiconductors. Using linear motors in X and Y and ballscrews in Z to achieve precise high-speed motion, this FFF machine looks and moves not like a machine with origins in prototyping, but in fact much more like a CNC machine tool.”Read More: Additive Magazine
The Essentium Team June 11, 20223D Natives: The 3D Printed Drones Helping Fight WildfiresPublic safety technology developer Axle Box Innovations is using additive manufacturing to support the development of 3D printed drones for fire management and protection. Read More
The Essentium Team May 4, 2022Design World: NUBURU and Essentium Partner to Launch Blue Laser-Based Wire Feed Metal 3D PrintersNUBURU, an industry leader in high power and high brightness industrial blue lasers, and Essentium Inc., a worldwide leader in industrial additive manufacturing (AM), announced a partnership to develop and manufacture a blue laser-based metal AM platform. Read More
The Essentium Team April 28, 2022Make Parts Fast: 3D Printing a COVID BreathalyzerEssentium, Inc., announced that the Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D Printing Platform and industrial materials were used to conceptualize, design, prototype, and manufacture ten functional Worlds Protect COVID-19 breathalyzer kiosks in an accelerated time frame. Read More
