The ExOne Company has opened a Metal 3D Printing Adoption Center at its European headquarters in Gersthofen, Germany.
Eric Bader, Managing Director of ExOne GmbH, says the launch of ExOne’s Metal 3D Printing Adoption Center is driven by increased interest by European manufacturers in metal binder jet 3D printing. ExOne’s Adoption Centers now print sand molds and cores for metal casting customers, as well as metal benchmarks for its metal binder jetting engineering consulting services.
The mission of ExOne’s Adoption Centers, which have locations in the U.S., Germany, and Japan, is to allow customers to try binder jet 3D printing for their designs before they decide to buy an ExOne 3D printing system for their own production.
The investment represents an expansion of ExOne’s longtime Adoption Center in Europe, which 3D prints sand molds and cores for metal casting customers. ExOne’s Metal Adoption Center now offers manufacturers end-to-end engineering services for direct-metal binder jet 3D printing, including benchmarks, design support, and materials, process, and work cell development.
Binder jetting is a high-speed method of 3D printing in which an industrial inkjet printhead selectively deposits a binder into a bed of powder particles creating a solid part one thin layer at a time. When printing metals, the final part must be sintered in a furnace to fuse the particles together into a high-density solid object.
All new ExOne metal printers, such as the X1 160Pro manufactured on-site in Gersthofen, are now offered with the company’s patented Triple Advanced Compaction Technology (ACT), which delivers industry-leading accuracy, density, and repeatability in binder jet printing.
