Our customer from Germany, Primetall GmbH, needs individual jigs for some components in order to clamp them on a laser welding machine. These jigs were previously made of aluminum and were very heavy and expensive to manufacture. In the process of some considerations, this jig was optimized with additive manufacturing, using a Markforged [...]
Pure Copper - Now on the Metal X! The next material for the Markforged Metal X is now available with copper. The special thing is that this copper is not an alloy, but a 99.8% pure copper with very high electrical and thermal conductivities. The material is therefore ideal for all applications that [...]
Markforged Achieves ISO 27001 Certification Markforged is the first additive manufacturing platform to earn ISO 27001 Certification. Learn more about ISO 27001 Certification and our commitment to ensuring the privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Markforged entire ecosystem: https://markforged.com/press-releases/iso-certification“We believe that every product and engineering decision we make has a security component to it, [...]
Guhring UK - Reduction of lead times through additive manufacturing “As we started looking at supplying smaller volume customers, it became an issue,” says Alan Pearce, PCD Production Supervisor at Guhring UK. Each piece of special tooling Guhring UK makes needs to first be designed and approved by the customer. Depending on [...]
Wärtsilä Creates the World’s First 3D Printed CE-Certified Lifting Tool Here's the world's first CE-certified 3D printed lifting tool that has been developed by Wärtsilä using their Markforged printer! The tool helps with the maintenance of engines on site and can lift a whopping 960 kg (with safety factor of 4)! Another [...]
Manufacturing reinvented Capitalising on the benefits of 3D printing technology can drive down costs in manufacturing. With potentially limitless applications for plastic and metal printers modern manufacturing companies aren’t short of places to start. Throughout time, manufacturing companies have needed to adapt to survive and the 2020s are set to [...]
Markforged Industrial Carbon Fiber Printer Gets 2x Faster Leading provider of industrial 3D printers dramatically increases the print speed without losing the company’s high-quality surface finish Markforged the leading manufacturer of metal and carbon fiber 3D printers, today announced Turbo Print for the X7 3D printer at Formnext. The new [...]
OK, so we've all done our turn on exhibition stands. There you are with sore feet and just about to answer the same question for the 10th time and 'bang' someone asks you a great question you can't answer! This happened to me during an event in October, I got hit with the question of [...]
September’s blog talks about applying finishes to Onyx parts. Faced with a question I couldn’t answer from a customer, I disappeared off home for the weekend with the challenge of spraying one of the showroom samples a metal colour. Having sprayed plastic before I was aware that there are problems getting paint to adhere to [...]
This blog takes a look at how to print a living hinge, which are really simple and very robust. We've bent ours literally thousands of times and it doesn't show any signs of wear or discolouration. There are plenty of applications which suit it very nicely, such as rugged cases, electrical control boxes, enclosures and [...]
