Digital Metal's DM P2500 metal 3D printer.
Metal additive manufacturing company, Digital Metal has announced the second installation of its high-precision metal 3D printer at Cetim, the Technical Centre for Mechanical Industry in France.
Cetim, a leading technical organisation with close to its 6,500 subscribing companies, was one of the first recipients of a Digital Metal system back in 2017 at its site in Saint-Étienne. Now, it has started up another machine at its sister facility in Cluses, which is focused on digitalisation, lean manufacturing and environmental issues.
"The Digital Metal binder jetting technology fits the production requirements in our region perfectly. Our customers typically produce complex parts with high demands on quality for the automotive, medical and aeronautic industries," says Thierry Gautreau, responsible for Industry 4.0 and companies transformation support at Cetim Cluses. "Digital Metal’s binder jetting technology is state-of-the-art and can create complicated and highly detailed designs. Another advantage is that there is a potential for wider material choices than with AM processes like SLM that use melting. We are delighted to be able to offer this to the companies we work with."
The Cluses facility is located in a region with a long production heritage of small and complex parts for industries such as watchmaking. Fittingly, Digital Metal’s technology is a proprietary binder jetting process which delivers high precision printing at an accuracy of 1µm for small and intricate metal components and has enabled the production of more than 300,000 parts so far. Its DM P2500 machine was officially launched at TCT Show back in 2017 and has already been installed within organisations such as Cetim and The Manufacturing Technology Cenre in the UK.
Gautreau added: "The first printer installed by our sister company in Saint Étienne has lived up to all our expectations. And now we are really looking forward to helping our customers implement this technology which will allow them to sharpen their competitive edge."
