FKM Sintertechnik to install Voxeljet VX1000 High Speed Sintering system
3D printing service supplier FKM Sintertechnik has joined the Voxeljet VX1000 Excessive Velocity Sintering (HSS) beta programme, with the machine set to be put in in Q2 2024.
FKM Sintertechnik will combine the VX1000 HSS platform into its manufacturing facility, with the corporate additionally putting in the compact VX200 HSS 3D printer to coach workers.
Upon set up, the VX1000 will complement the 40+ 3D printing methods that FKM Sintertechnik already runs. The VX1000 has been designed for the manufacturing of elements, with a construct envelope of 1000 x 540 x 180 mm permitting the printing large-format elements and bigger volumes of small elements. The machine can also be mentioned to have printing charges of as much as 7,300 cm3/h and is suitable with polyamide 12/nylon supplies.
“Our broad buyer portfolio requires most flexibility in manufacturing,” commented Jürgen Blöcher, Managing Director of FKM Sintertechnik GmbH. “We now have been carefully monitoring the event of HSS expertise, and because of the VX1000 HSS, we’ll quickly personal a system that meets our necessities for flexibility and cost-effectiveness in equal measure. The VX1000 HSS’s greater productiveness, mixed with a decrease powder refresh fee in comparison with SLS methods, will place FKM to ship decisive financial benefits whereas permitting us to print all kinds of elements in a single job with most flexibility.”
“We’re happy to have FKM as a companion. As an early adopter of additive manufacturing, FKM’s experience in polymer printing will likely be enhanced with using the VX1000 HSS,” added Rudolf Franz, COO of Voxeljet AG. “Our large-format printer will present customers like FKM with important price benefits over different powder bed-based processes out there available on the market right now. Our open-source method additionally contributes to this.”
