PrintForm
PrintForm Aerospace
PrintForm serves customers in a number of industries, including aerospace and defence.
PrintForm, a build-to-order custom manufactured parts service, has received strategic investment from Industrial Metal Powders (IMP), an Indian electrolytic iron powders manufacturer.
Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, PrintForm combines 3D printing technologies with traditional manufacturing methods to deliver prototypes and custom manufacturing solutions. The components manufactured by PrintForm are distributed to players in an array of markets, including aerospace, medical, industrial, and consumer products.
IMP’s investment comes just a few months after InspireX Ventures’ commitment was made public in October 2017, and nearly a year after a partnership with WIPRO3D was established. While all serve to enhance PrintForm’s offering, IMP’s stature and experience with additive manufacturing has sparked much enthusiasm in Alpharetta.
“The investment from Industrial Metal Powders is exciting news to announce as we move into 2018,” said Mallikarjun Huralikoppi, PrintForm’s President and Co-Founder. “They are leaders and veterans in their industry who also share an interest in additive manufacturing, having already set up Incredible AM, a metal 3D printing plant of their own.”
Incredible AM is the result of IMP’s venture into additive manufacturing, targeting the medical and engineering industries with 3D printed biomedical implants and complex structures. An extension from the company’s work with electrolytic iron powders, Incredible AM made IMP an attractive partner for PrintForm.
PrintForm’s custom manufacturing services, in addition to injection moulding, CNC machining, sheet metal, and cast urethane/ vacuum castings, include Stereolithography, Fused Deposition Modelling, Colour Jet Printing, Polyjet, and Direct Metal Laser Sintering. The company requires this wealth of manufacturing processes to meet a growing demand for custom parts. But with IMP’s investment, the 3D printing service bureau will be targeting more than just the technology to hand.
“Apart from growing our internal teams to support our expanding customer base, we are also investing in the technology development necessary to help our customers go from quote to delivery as easily as possible,” added Huralikoppi. “Our partnership with IMP will help us get these new solutions in front of our customers more quickly, and further expand the success we had in 2017.”
