To launch its new pellet 3D printing range, EVO 3D has teamed up with KUKA, Ai Build, and Dyze Design to offer four different packages to its customers. Photo via EVO 3D.Įnabling large-scale industrial applications Going forward, EVO 3D envisions a future where everyone can chop up their own household plastic waste to use as pellets in their own 3D printers. Currently, initiatives such as Print Your City are helping cities to collect plastic waste to 3D print public park benches, while the likes of polymer 3D printing specialist Covestro sell recycled plastic shreds for pellet 3D printing. By easily adding various dyes, additives, and reinforcement fibers to a mix, customers can create custom composite plastics, of which waste can be reused by tossing it in with virgin pellets.Īs such, not only does pellet 3D printing offer efficiency and cost benefits, but the technology also delivers environmental advantages. The combination of robotic arm 3D printers and pellet-fed extruders is typically used for large-scale prints, such as 3D printed furniture and makes the fabrication of these objects more economically feasible due to the cheaper material costs and faster print times.Īdditionally, customers can create their own custom composites and material blends through the combination of different pellets. Due to the large heat zones in pellet extruders, a material throughput of almost 100 times greater than that of FDM 3D printers can be achieved, making such extruders capable of print speeds of up to 200 times quicker. These benefits are offered through EVO 3D’s new robotic pellet printer range, which will see customers achieve faster print speeds and larger print sizes. Pellets can also cost between 65-90 percent less than filament of the same plastic, depending on the volume of purchase. Pellet-based extrusion provides a number of advantages, including enabling very high throughput, reducing material costs and offering access to new kinds of polymers that do not exist in filament format. Leveraging the benefits of pellet 3D printing Shortly afterward, the firm revealed it had joined Evolution Sales and Marketing to strengthen its offering to the additive manufacturing sector. The company’s customers include the likes of the National Manufacturing Institute of Scotland, University of Cambridge, and London Electric Vehicle Company which have leveraged its services for a variety of applications within the industry, research and other sectors.ĮVO 3D announced its launch at the beginning of this year alongside a £250,000 capital investment to expand its operations. Image via EVO 3D.Įxeter-based EVO 3D provides a range of 3D printing solutions, including the resale of 3D printers and accessories and technical support.
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EVO 3D is offering four packages which feature various robot, extruder, and software combinations. The firm is working with industrial robot manufacturer KUKA, AI and robotic 3D printing developer Ai Build, and Canada-based OEM Dyze Design, to offer four packages that feature various robot, extruder, and software combinations for pellet additive manufacturing. UK-based 3D printing solutions provider EVO 3D has launched a new range of robotic pellet 3D printer packages to deliver improved benefits to its customers.