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Essentium secures $22.2m for high speed 3D printing from BASF and Materialise

Essentium,Inc。, the developer of the高速挤压(HSE)FDM 3D打印平台已关闭2220万美元的资金圆形。

由...领着BASF Venture Capital,圆形专为参与其中award winning3D软件公司物质化,休斯顿私募股权公司创世纪公园,和以前的种子圆投资者。

该公司向前迈出了一项重要的一步,该投资强化了Essentium现有的关系巴斯夫和物质化that seek to developHSE材料and introduce anopen market modelfor 3D printing.

Sven Thate, BASF Venture Capital investment manager, comments:

“Unleashing and accelerating the potential of additive manufacturing for our customers is a priority for BASF. Our investment, together with the strategic market partnership BASF has with Essentium, advances this strategy.”

增压3D打印过程

Headquartered in College Station, east Texas, Essentium specializes in the development and provision of additive manufacturing materials and processes.

在材料中,该公司主要生产普遍用于聚合物加工的长丝,更具体地为本公司的专有FlashFuse技术。在过程中,公司拥有两种不同的技术,上述FlashFuse和HSE。

FlashFuse是一种“FDM电焊”的方法。在该技术中,利用等离子体的电荷以改善Z轴的3D印刷部分强度。

Illustration of the Essentium FlashFuse process. Image via Essentium
Illustration of the Essentium FlashFuse process. Image via Essentium

HSE是一个平台,包含Essentium专有的加热装置和喷嘴,也称为“箍”。打印时,HSE箍可以调整到20-600度的温度。

计划于2019年晚些时候发布,Essentium将在一个平台中将其FlashFuse和HSE技术结合在一起,名为HSE 180•S.HSE 180•S报告比工业竞争快10倍的打印速度,目前可通过公司的网站保留。

消除了采用的障碍

据依据CTO BART VAN DER SCHUEREN,“物质化,本店和巴斯夫分享了3D印刷行业增长的愿景”。这三家公司于2018年11月确认了这三家公司,并简单地提出的共同愿景通过“向用户提供更多控制,更多的材料以及最终降低成本和更高的成本和更高的成本和更高的成本和更高的成本和更高的成本和更高的成本,这是一项简单的愿景正在增加通过3D印刷。

Speaking in relation to the Series A funding round Blake Teipel, co-founder and CEO of Essentium, comments, “Industrial additive manufacturing is ripe for transformation. The problem/solution paradigm is made clear through independent research we commissioned among executives in industrial manufacturing where 100% of respondents reported obstacles in using 3D printing for large scale production, and 88% stated that their industries will save billions of dollars in production costs when the barriers are eliminated,”

“Eliminating these barriers is what Essentium is delivering on.”

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Featured image shows inside the HSE 180•S. Photo via Essentium.