The Nanoscribe team.
The Nanoscribe team.
German 3D printer manufacturer Nanoscribe GmbH has expanded into the United States by opening a service and sales office in Boston, MA.
The company’s US operations will work as a subsidiary business to the German firm, in similar vein to the Chinese division established last year.
Operations at the new base will commence on August 1st, 2019, as the company widens its international presence. It positions the company in a prime location to get its 3D printing systems into the hands of industry. So far, the company’s 3D microfabrication technology is being used by Harvard University and Boston University in Massachusetts, as well as Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology in California. But with the recent introduction of the Quantum X platform - which recently won the Innovation Award at LASER World of Photonics - has come an increasing focus on industrial manufacturing.
“From Boston, we can now react even more flexibly to our customers’ wishes and offer them the best possible support,” comments Martin Hermatschweiler, Nanoscribe CEO, who will lead the US subsidiary as General Manager.
Quantum X is the second 3D printing platform to be offered by Nanoscribe after the Photonic Professional G2 system. The Quantum X is powered by Nanoscribe’s patent-pending Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography (2GL) and is said to offer increased speed and increased precision when tackling complex structures. The 2GL process allows the Quantum X platform to control the voxel size along one scanning plane using synchronised laser power modulation, which enables complex shapes and variable feature heights to be produced within once scan field. “We provide users with a highly efficient and extremely precise manufacturing process that overcomes previous limitations in design freedom, precision and throughput,” states Hermatschweiler.
The capabilities of the Quantum X, per Nanoscribe, enables users to reduce iteration cycles for function prototypes and makes the system suitable for the production of refractive and diffractive micro optical components, giving the company a play in the information and technology field.
