瑞士碳纤维3D打印专家9T Labsis preparing for an imminent expansion into new markets according to a复合材料世界报告。
看到对它的兴趣极大地增加了红色系列systems, the company has sought to take advantage by making a spate of new hires, as well as plans to open its first offices in the US. News of 9T Labs’ boom in demand comes after itsecured $17 million in funding今年早些时候，现在据说它针对其技术，其技术需要每年生产超过100,000个零件。
9t Labs的联合创始人Giovanni Cavolina告诉复合材料世界，“我们在该领域中有新的系统被用来生产发展和商业零件。”“现在，随着去年启动了许多新的生产应用程序，我们还有一个额外的客户群将使用多个9T红色系列系统扩展到系列生产，这是一旦技术验证。”
“Despite the challenges that all of industry has faced during the past two years, we are entering 2022 full of optimism.”
9T实验室的红色系列机器
Since being spun-off from苏黎世Ethin 2018, 9T Labs has been on a mission to make entering mass-production with high-performance composites as accessible as it currently is with metals. In order to do so, the firm has come up with its Red Series Industrial 3D Printing Solution, an end-to-end platform comprising hardware, software and services, designed for producing lightweight composite parts.
Central to the platform’s functionality is9T实验室的构建模块，一种基于挤出的纤维上篮3D打印机，能够创建以碳，玻璃和玄武岩连续纤维增强的物体。在软件方面，红色系列还伴随着公司的专有纤维化程序，使用户不仅可以建模零件，还可以对其进行FEA模拟，以验证其设计。
使用公司的工业3D打印平台，据说可以同时创建功能性原型和最终用途组件，但是那些寻求进入连续制作的人也可以选择其Additive Fusion Solution。由于其额外的融合模块（包装了集成的电致动和冷却系统），该机器可产生层粘附水平和表面光洁度水平的零件。
To further the commercialization of its Red Series platforms, 9T Labs managed to raise430万美元的种子融资back in 2020, and this was followed by a further $17 million Series A funding round in February 2022. The latter saw the company gain the backing ofStratasys和Solvay Ventures，与前ExoneCEO John Hartner becoming chairman of its board, ahead of its next phase of growth.
扩展到新的垂直领域
在2021年的过程中，据说9T实验室已经开始在创纪录的新项目中部署其技术。这些举措据信，这些举措涵盖了从航空航天托架和航空肋骨加强剂到手术器械和观看零件的所有内容，也已通过将商业系统运送到供应商以及研究中心和大学的补充。
一个这样的项目已经看到了公司的红色系列系统。Setforge，旨在发展的工业供应商低成本3D打印替代品到钢，铝和钛零件。尽管该公司的努力最初已经关注其核心汽车和航空航天客户，但它也预计能够涉足生产奢侈品，体育和医疗相关的组件。
“With all the additional production application projects we’ve got underway, we are very excited to have acquired customers in the sporting goods, luxury goods, and general industrial segments,” added Cavolina. “This helps us support manufacturers in a variety of industries to produce structural fiber-reinforced composite parts much faster, at lower cost, and still meet demanding performance and dimensional requirements.”
为了应对这一需求，据说9T实验室已雇用了包括几位销售经理在内的21名员工，以领导其在欧洲国家的产品营销，并且随着涉及其系统的计划和技术的商业化开始，开始实现。, it anticipates expanding into further new markets, hence it’s still said to be hiring.
Once it has fully-commercialized its Red Series systems, 9T Labs is set to face stiff competition from a number of others operating in the composite 3D printing space. Israeli 3D printer manufacturer巨大3D，例如，启动了Massivit 1000late last year. Powered by Cast-In-Motion (CIM) technology, the system is designed specifically to allow for the production of large-format composite molds at pace.
On the funding front, composite 3D printing firmAREVO also raised $25 millionin August 2021, in a move that was said to position it for growth moving forwards. The funding round followed the completion of its continuous carbon fiber composite additive manufacturing facility, a complex packed with 70 of the firm’s shipping container-sized Aqua 2 systems, primed for the production of consumer goods.
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特色图显示9T实验室的红色系列构建模块和融合模块。通过9T实验室的图像。
