Two-component 3D printing from igus

This may prove useful to machine designers and builders: a new facility from igus meaning that components requiring high stiffness and good wear resistance can be produced using 3D printing. "In recent years, more and more machine builders and designers have asked us whether it is possible to manufacture components using 3D printing from more than one plastic material in order to achieve special properties", says Dean Aylott, Head of Additive Manufacturing at igus UK. "The solution is two-component printing (2K). This means, for example, that tribo-filaments can be combined with carbon fibre reinforced materials. The customer not only receives a particularly low-wear component, but also one that is very tough".