Medical Plastics News: Q and A: How Protolabs and Essentium are Helping Fight COVID-19 April 24, 2020May 11, 2020 | The Essentium Team Share MPN editor Laura Hughes reached out to Blake Teipel, CEO and co-founder of Essentium, and Gurvinder Singh, global product director, injection moulding at Protolabs, to find out how the companies were helping with the pandemic. CEO Blake Teipel shares the process of Essentium establishing a manufacturing process centre in ten days to house an Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D printing platform and developing the Essentium reusable mask frame using material known as Essentium TPU74D (thermoplastic urethane) which allows for easy cleaning, and is used with a single-use, replaceable filtration media. Read more: Medical Plastics News Share
MPN editor Laura Hughes reached out to Blake Teipel, CEO and co-founder of Essentium, and Gurvinder Singh, global product director, injection moulding at Protolabs, to find out how the companies were helping with the pandemic. CEO Blake Teipel shares the process of Essentium establishing a manufacturing process centre in ten days to house an Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D printing platform and developing the Essentium reusable mask frame using material known as Essentium TPU74D (thermoplastic urethane) which allows for easy cleaning, and is used with a single-use, replaceable filtration media. Read more: Medical Plastics News
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
