Digital Engineering 247: Production-Scale AM Spikes During COVIDNovember 30, 2020December 11, 2020 | The Essentium TeamShare Want confirmation that additive manufacturing (AM) is fast evolving from an effective way of creating prototypes to a serious alternative for full-scale production? Essentium claims to have goods, touting the results of a recent independent study that shows use of large-scale AM more than doubling over the last year for 70 percent of participating companies. Highlights of the companies’ third annual study also found that the number of companies shifting to AM for full-scale production runs for hundreds, even thousands, of parts has doubled from 7% last year to 14% in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the rise in AM use—companies surveyed said they were using AM processes to make quantities of supplies at scale or at least to create the molds used to make the products so assembly lines could keep moving.Read More: Digital Engineering 247Share
Want confirmation that additive manufacturing (AM) is fast evolving from an effective way of creating prototypes to a serious alternative for full-scale production? Essentium claims to have goods, touting the results of a recent independent study that shows use of large-scale AM more than doubling over the last year for 70 percent of participating companies. Highlights of the companies’ third annual study also found that the number of companies shifting to AM for full-scale production runs for hundreds, even thousands, of parts has doubled from 7% last year to 14% in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the rise in AM use—companies surveyed said they were using AM processes to make quantities of supplies at scale or at least to create the molds used to make the products so assembly lines could keep moving.Read More: Digital Engineering 247
The Essentium Team December 15, 2021TCT Magazine: Essentium CEO on Its Public Listing, Entry Into Metals & Polymer Portfolio DevelopmentBlake Teipel bursts through the door of a back office on his company’s Formnext booth, he apologises for being slightly late, cracks a couple of jokes with his colleagues, rattles through our 30-minute interview, glances at his watch and after a brief tour of the stand, is away to his next appointment. Read More
The Essentium Team December 9, 2021TCT Magazine: Essentium to Launch Powder and Sinter-Free Metal 3D Printing CapabilityEssentium is developing an extrusion-based metal additive manufacturing platform that will be integrated with its High Speed Extrusion (HSE) technology. Read More
The Essentium Team December 9, 20213D Print.com: Metal 3D Printing to be Integrated into Essentium High Speed Extrusion 3D PrintersIn its recent SPAC announcement, Essentium let slip that it was expanding from a polymer additive manufacturing (AM) company into metals. The firm has now provided details about what this process may entail, saying that its new metal AM platform will be integrated with the Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) technology. Read More
