Additive Manufacturing: AMUG Conference Highlights Industrialization of Polymer 3D Printers April 5, 2019October 29, 2019 | The Essentium Team Share “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 Share
“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 December 19, 2019 Plastics Technology: A Look Back at Interesting Applications of 3D Printing in 2019 As the year is coming close to an end, it’s always good to take a look back at all the exciting new developments in the growing additive manufacturing (AM)/3D printing space. Read More
The Essentium Team December 17, 2019 Forbes: 2020: The Year Ahead in 3D (Printing) 3D printing is coming of age. Not that long ago, we were still getting excited at machines that could print a model of our head, or a miniature replica of a famous building. Read More
The Essentium Team December 11, 2019 Fabbaloo: CEO Blake Teipel Explains Essentium’s Strategy We had a chat with ESSENTIUM’s CEO, Blake Teipel to find out the latest developments with the upstart 3D printer manufacturer. Read More
