Materialise Opens Metal 3D Printing Factory in Germany
September 22 2015 - 7:00AM
Materialise NV (NASDAQ:MTLS)
, a leading
provider of additive manufacturing (AM) software and sophisticated
3D printing services, today announced the start of metal printing
activities in their German office in Bremen, the location of
Materialise's Metal Competence Centre for software. Starting in
late October, this new production line will begin serving
industrial customers looking to manufacture parts in titanium, a
material with applications in industries such as aerospace,
manufacturing, automotive and more. During a press conference at
Euromold in Dusseldorf, Materialise founder and CEO Fried Vancraen
stated that this new production line would mark Materialise's next
step in becoming the most complete factory for 3D
Printing.
Over the years, Materialise has built extensive expertise in
metal printing, most notably by developing cutting-edge metal AM
software and releasing Build Processors with leading metal OEMs. In
regards to hardware, Materialise recently announced the completion
of an in-house metal printing project that saw a medical production
line being installed at their headquarters. Now, with the
technology maturing and the demand for printed metal parts
increasing, the company has begun expanding their metal offering on
the industrial services side, with the availability of aluminum
already being announced earlier this year.
Expanding Materialise's Factory for 3D
Printing
With a global capacity of more than 120 3D printers and wide
variety of available technologies, Materialise has grown into one
of the world's largest and most comprehensive providers of additive
manufacturing services. Every day, over 2,000 parts are produced
and shipped to customers all over the globe. The metal production
facility in Germany is Materialise's forth industrial production
unit in Europe, next to the main factory in Belgium and those in
Poland and the Czech Republic.
"In terms of commitment to the German market, this is an
important step," says CEO Fried Vancraen. "It allows us to
manufacture parts close to our customers in aeronautics and the
industrial goods industry. With this scalable site in Bremen, we
clearly put metal printing on the agenda as a strategic part of our
industrial offering."
Materialise's Metal Competence Center in
Bremen
The entire activity will be incorporated into Materialise's
Bremen office, where the company's know-how in software for metal
printing has been centralized since the acquisition of Marcam
Engineering in 2011. The metal production will be led by Ingo
Uckelmann, who brings with him a solid background in metal printing
for dental applications. He joined Materialise in July 2015 to
start up the operations.
Marcus Joppe, Managing Director of Materialise GmbH: "This
operation solidifies the Bremen office's role as Materialise's
Metal Competence Center. Our team of specialists already have a
strong understanding of the needs and challenges of metal AM and by
starting this new production line, we will be able to expand our
knowledge and apply it to the next generation of software while
also offering high-quality manufacturing in titanium to our
industrial customers."
Materialise will be using TiAl6V4, one of the widest-known
alloys, combining excellent mechanical properties with a very low
specific weight. The material is corrosion resistant and is used in
a variety of demanding engineering environments such as
aeronautics. Applications include functional prototypes, solid
end-use parts and spare parts.
For more information, please contact:
Vanessa Palsenbarg Corporate Communications
Specialist, Materialise Phone: +32 16 39 66 37 Fax: +32 16 39
66 00 Email: Vanessa.Palsenbarg@materialise.be Twitter:
@belgiancanuck or @MaterialiseNV Visit: www.materialise.com
About Materialise
With its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, and branches
worldwide, Materialise is a provider of Additive Manufacturing (AM)
software solutions and sophisticated 3D printing services in a wide
variety of industries, including healthcare, automotive, aerospace,
art and design and consumer products. Materialise has been playing
an active role in the field of AM since 1990, through its
involvement in AM for industrial and medical applications, by
providing biomedical and clinical solutions such as medical image
processing and surgical simulations and by developing unique
solutions for its customers' prototyping, production, and medical
needs. For additional information, please
visit: www.materialise.com.
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