3D Systems opens new Advanced Additive Manufacturing Centre

3D Systems has opened its new Advanced Additive Manufacturing Centre in Pinerolo, Italy. Over the past 15 months, the company has implemented a multi-million-dollar investment to more than double the manufacturing capacity and increase its breadth of capabilities to meet increasing customer demand.

3D Systems On Demand is an industry leader in rapid prototyping, low-volume parts production and appearance models. Its customers represent a broad range of industries including automotive, consumer products and aerospace who rely on the additive and subtractive manufacturing expertise of its engineers to bring their designs to reality. In order to provide these capabilities to a larger segment of the market, 3D Systems purchased an adjacent building to its current ISO-9001-certified production facility to create a new advanced additive manufacturing campus. The new state-of-the-art facility adds to the company's existing On Demand network within Europe that includes locations in the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany.

Marco Maio, general manager, 3D Systems On Demand, Pinerolo, T/O, Italy says: "The intent of bringing all SLA and SLS activity in a new centre of excellence is to not only expand capacity for additive manufacturing and prototyping, but to increase the speed of delivery and the quality of the service due to our enhanced process automation. Through this expansion, we are also making a significant, positive impact on the local economy. A necessity for delivering on the increased demand is to ensure we have the right talent on board to deliver. This has necessitated significant investment in hiring a skilled workforce to operate these machines, and meet our customers' needs."

3D Systems On Demand's facility in Pinerolo, T/O, Italy is part of a global network of facilities supported by nearly four decades of experience in 3D printing and advanced manufacturing. These facilities deliver a full portfolio of conventional and additive manufacturing services that empower designers and engineers with the tools to design, iterate, and produce quality parts. The result is reduced time spent on production and product development with high-quality 3D printed, and injection-moulded parts.

With the addition of the Advanced Additive Manufacturing Centre, the Pinerolo facility is now home to a broad range of additive and subtractive manufacturing technologies including a suite of over 30 plastic 3D printers in a range of technologies, including SLS, SLA and digital light printing (DLP) represented by the company's patented Figure 4 technology. These additive systems are complemented by traditional manufacturing technologies like machines for vacuum casting, 5-axis CNC processing, injection moulding and spark/wire EDM. Maio says: "The breadth of our technologies render our facility in Italy, an end-to-end solution for prototyping and low-volume manufacturing of industrial parts and products, including post-processing like surface treatment and painting."

With the opening of this facility, 3D Systems On Demand is well equipped to support demanding, high-volume production industries - such as automotive, consumer products and aerospace - that have stringent quality and regulatory requirements. Ziad Abou, SVP and general manager, 3D Systems On Demand says: "Through the expansion of this facility and our capabilities, we are strongly positioned to keep pace with technological innovations and support the growth of our customers. Take, for example, the automotive industry. 3D Systems On Demand has several automotive customers for whom we create a wide variety of high-quality prototypes for both interior and exterior automobile parts to help accelerate the product development process."

Phil Schultz, EVP, operations, 3D Systems adds: "Through this expanded facility, we are offering creative solutions to our customers' product development challenges which are bolstered by a breadth of leading-edge technologies and deep applications expertise. We are excited that our new Advanced Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence here in Pinerolo, T/O, Italy will enable us to offer our customers the fastest production available to meet their challenges, and support competitive advantage."

Learn more about the Advanced Additive Manufacturing Centre and On Demand network at www.3dsystems.com.

3D Systems Europe Ltd

Mark House
Mark Road
Hemel Hempstead
HP2 7UA
UNITED KINGDOM

+44 (0)1442 282 600

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www.3dsystems.com

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