Forbes: A Look How This Texas Startup Is Helping The Air Force Use 3D Printing To Replace Parts November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 | The Essentium Team Share A Texas-based startup with $22.1 M in funding helps the U.S. Air Force 3D print replacement parts. Elisa Teipel, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer and Co-founder of Essentium said that more than 10,000 replacement part requests are delayed or unfilled each year despite a willingness to pay premium prices. “The supply chains, in many cases, are simply not there. The average age of aircraft in the U.S. Air Force is over 28 years. In some cases, the service is still flying models much older – like the B-52, roughly 60 years old – and the original manufacturers are no longer in business,” added Teipel. “Where the supply chain for critical equipment is faltering, additive manufacturing can step in with speed, strength, growing scale and flexibility.” Read More: Forbes Share
A Texas-based startup with $22.1 M in funding helps the U.S. Air Force 3D print replacement parts. Elisa Teipel, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer and Co-founder of Essentium said that more than 10,000 replacement part requests are delayed or unfilled each year despite a willingness to pay premium prices. “The supply chains, in many cases, are simply not there. The average age of aircraft in the U.S. Air Force is over 28 years. In some cases, the service is still flying models much older – like the B-52, roughly 60 years old – and the original manufacturers are no longer in business,” added Teipel. “Where the supply chain for critical equipment is faltering, additive manufacturing can step in with speed, strength, growing scale and flexibility.” Read More: Forbes
The Essentium Team December 15, 2020 Make Parts Fast: 5 Reasons Additive Manufacturing Will Boom in 2021 The promise of additive manufacturing has always been tremendous. But it’s not just a promise anymore—now the capability is a reality. CEO and co-founder Blake Teipel, Ph.D., lists five trends that will push 3D printing to greater success in the coming year. Read More
The Essentium Team December 4, 2020 3D Ruck: Dr. Blake Teipel, CEO and Co-founder of Essentium in a 3ruck.com Interview At Formnext Connect 2020, 3Druck.com interviewed CEO and Co-founder Dr. Blake Teipel about Essentium and the 3D printing industry in an email interview. Read More
The Essentium Team November 30, 2020 Digital Engineering 247: Production-Scale AM Spikes During COVID 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. Read More
