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Roboze启动用于废料和3D印刷零件的循环经济计划

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机器人高温工业级3D打印机的制造商宣布了一个新项目,该项目将使客户能够在生命周期结束时返回其废料和3D印刷零件,并雷电竞app下载将其处理成可回收的,低成本的3D打印材料。

从2022年1月开始,循环经济项目将寻求减少公司的环境影响,同时通过以较低的价格提供可回收材料来使其3D打印技术民主化。

“We are working to refine the management of the entire supply chain, at any cost and with all the necessary efforts,” said Alessio Lorusso, Founder and CEO of Roboze. “3D printing technology can be one of the solutions to combat CO2 emissions, reducing transport and producing just in time and on-demand.

“But if we don’t take serious actions and continue to generate plastic waste, then we will only become part of the problem.”

机器人's circular economy model. Image via Roboze.
机器人’s circular economy model. Image via Roboze.

Reducing environmental impact

除了制造其高温熔融丝制作(FFF)3D打印机外,Roboze还以其“超级参与”超刚性热塑性塑料(例如Carbon PA和Carbon Peek)的开发而闻名。雷电竞app下载

In April, the firm launched what it claimed to be the world’s first industrial automation system to bring customized superpolymer and composite 3D printing into the production workflow, called机器人Automate。这automation system was developed to tackle long-standing challenges of standardization, process control and repeatability within 3D printing by streamlining the entire workflow.

这launch of Roboze Automate followed the roll-out of the company’s机器人3D Parts distributed 3D printing servicelast year. The service aims to help businesses reduce their costs through streamlining their supply chains, digitalizing their inventories, and producing components on-demand.

Roboze 3D零件网络的目的最终是通过世界各地的微观事件的分散生产模型使生产重新恢复使用点。该网络看到专门的3D打印中心,配备了机器人系统在全球范围内分布的机器人系统,这些系统在需要的地方和何时何时何地生产部分,以减少最终用户的成本和时间,并减少仓库中的运输和过量库存。

Both Roboze Automate and the Roboze 3D Parts Network are contributing to reducing the environmental impact of both the company and its customers. The firm is looking to safeguard the environment by instigating a shift towards more responsible production models and energy-efficient processes that optimize the consumption of materials and energy.

3D prints from Roboze. Photo via Roboze.
3D prints from Roboze. Photo via Roboze.

Recovering and processing waste

这circular economy waste recovery project is the latest environmentally-minded initiative from Roboze. From January, the firm’s customers will be able to return waste Roboze material and 3D printed parts that have reached the end of their life cycle.

这waste material and printed parts will then be processed to produce a circular economy 3D printing material that customers will be able to receive at a much lower price than the original. Not only will this reduce the environmental impact of the firm’s 3D printing materials and parts, Roboze says, but it will also help to democratize its 3D printing technology by offering the recycled material at a lower price point to its customers.

洛鲁索说:“在机器人,我们不想成为问题的一部分,但我们希望成为解决方案的先驱。”“我们的循环经济模式将造成零浪费,并代表和提供解决方案。”

这principle of a circular economy. Image via Fillamentum.
这principle of a circular economy. Image via Fillamentum.

Circularity in 3D printing materials

这circular economy is a concept that seeks to make optimum use of resources in order to avoid waste. Numerous eco-friendly material launches, methods of repurposing waste, and projects seeking to reduce the environmental footprint of additive manufacturing have taken place over the past year, highlighting the many改善3D打印中可持续性的机会

这need forfurther research into how the circularity can be fully appliedwithin the 3D printing sector has been recently highlighted by researchers from theUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa(UNIDEMI), who claim greater open-source collaboration between industry partners could pave the way towards addressing the UN’s sustainability goals with additive manufacturing.

So far, there has been some progress already made to develop circular 3D printing materials. For instance, 3D printing filament vendorReflow已经设计了一系列环保的‘Seaglass’ translucent materialsmade from locally sourced plastics, while 3D printing materials producerRecreushas launched a100%回收的柔性TPU丝由鞋类部门的废料制成。

Elsewhere, 3D printing filament producer Fillamentum’s100%可生物降解的非油丝, 最近showcased at Expo 2020 in Dubai,,,,also adheres to the circular economy concept as it can be reused time and time again.

圆形3D打印材料也是从更晦涩的来源设计的,例如lignin from plant cell walls,,,,垃圾填埋区废物,,,,plastic water bottles, 乃至termite and boring insect waste

Reflow’s sustainable line of six rPETG materials is made from locally-sourced plastic and inspired by the environment and its ‘natural wild beauty.’ Photo via Reflow
Reflow的可持续性“海玻璃”材料是由本地塑料制成的,并受环境的启发。通过反流照片。

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Featured image shows机器人’s circular economy model. Image via Roboze.