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Europac 3D has secured agreements to distribute additive manufacturing technology from DWS, Roboze, and Mimaki throughout the UK and Ireland.
The company has recently announced similar deals with DSM and Dyemansion, and already circulates hardware from HP and UnionTech, software from Polydevs and Siemens, and scanning systems from Artec, Kreon, and Solutionix.
Speaking to TCT at our flagship trade show in Birmingham last September, John Beckett, Europac’s Director and founder, proclaimed his company as a true one stop shop. At the event, Europac had one of the largest stands, decorated with hardware and applications, but in conversations at the show and since, has felt it necessary to move to bring onboard more affordable technologies.
Beckett and his team solely served the larger manufacturers with its additive hardware offerings between £100,000 - £350,000, but seeing the 10,000 - £100,000 market as a golden opportunity, has added the likes of DWS and Roboze to its portfolio.
“In our industry, certainly in the UK, the HP [Multi Jet Fusion platform] is still a very large cheque to write. Under these delicate circumstances with Brexit, there is a slowing down and a pause in the marketplace for writing cheques of £300,000,” Beckett told TCT. “We’ve now got solutions which will take us from the momma and papa shops right to the very top [and] we’ve got every corner of the marketplace covered.”
Within the company’s replenished portfolio of products is the capacity for manufacturers in a host of vertical markets to purchase Roboze’s desktop-sized machines able to print in PEEK and Carbon PA; Mimaki’s 3DUJ-553 printer able to print in millions of colours; and DWS’ series of platforms supported by a strong portfolio of materials. DWS has machines designed for the jewellery, dental, and industrial markets, and by combining the DWS XFAB 3500 SD with a Solutionix C500 scanner, buyers can get a reverse engineering package for £30,000.
Europac is increasingly covering all bases. Currently on the agenda is expanding the team, recruiting a couple of people after the Easter break, and maybe more at the end of the year too. The company is also keeping an eye on the metal additive manufacturing developments occurring at more than one of its existing partners. But all that in good time. Europac has come out of a busy six months.
“Europac has become a very strong one stop shop, but we’re not selling [poor quality products], we’re not selling £500 printers,” Beckett emphasised. “DWS, the product that they produce is very accurate, it’s very good material., the lasers are high quality. Dyemansion is probably the best cleaning and dyeing product out there. Roboze is up and coming from a start-up a couple of years ago to producing very good production machines. [Mimaki,] it’s colour, but it’s colour with a huge vibrancy, a very high resolution. We’ve got a huge amount of things going on.”
