KXAN: Companies and Families Work to Produce Mass Quantities of Protective Masks April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 | The Essentium Team Share Companies and individual families in Central Texas have been working tirelessly to produce mass quantities of protective masks and other tools to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Essentium, a 3D printing company announced this week that it has designed and is now producing a protective mask kit comprising a reusable 3D printed mask frame and filter. The first run of 500 masks will be delivered to the Pflugerville Police and Fire Department the second week of April, following an order from the City of Pflugerville’s Community Development Corporation. Thirty pilot units were already delivered to the Pflugerville Police Department. Read more: KXAN Share
Companies and individual families in Central Texas have been working tirelessly to produce mass quantities of protective masks and other tools to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Essentium, a 3D printing company announced this week that it has designed and is now producing a protective mask kit comprising a reusable 3D printed mask frame and filter. The first run of 500 masks will be delivered to the Pflugerville Police and Fire Department the second week of April, following an order from the City of Pflugerville’s Community Development Corporation. Thirty pilot units were already delivered to the Pflugerville Police Department. Read more: KXAN
The Essentium Team November 23, 2020 Forbes: A Look How This Texas Startup Is Helping The Air Force Use 3D Printing To Replace Parts 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. Read More
The Essentium Team November 23, 2020 Additive Manufacturing: 3 Design Techniques for High Speed Extrusion 3D Printing “High Speed Extrusion” (HSE) is Essentium’s rapid deposition process for 3D printing polymer parts at production speeds. It is fused filament fabrication (FFF), but the speed means even the design considerations appropriate to FFF may not be sufficient for this process. Tom Mulholland describes the design considerations for HSE. Read More
The Essentium Team November 22, 2020 Manufacturing Tomorrow: 3D Printing Will Soon Be a Game-Changer in the Manufacturing Industry – Here’s Why Until now, manufacturers have been dipping their toes and getting familiar with AM technology, using it to create prototypes rather than final products. But that is changing. It’s only a matter of time before AM makes the leap from prototyping to manufacturing on the factory floor. And this leap will happen a lot sooner than most people think. Read More
