Roboze One +400
The Roboze One 400+
Roboze, an Italian manufacturer of 3D printing systems, has established a new headquarters in Modugno, Bari as it looks to accelerate its growth and research and development.
The 16,000-square-foot facility is equipped with open space design offices, R&D laboratories, and demo and applications centres, where the development and implementation of its 3D printing technology and advanced materials takes place. Roboze is aiming to quadruple production capacity with the new HQ facility, expanding the assembly and testing area of its 3D printing machines, while plans are also in place for a significant recruitment drive over the next two years.
Currently, the company is made up of 25 employees, 80% of which are engineering graduates and around 50% dedicate to R&D. By the end of 2018, Roboze wants an additional 40 members of staff in place, and by the end of the decade another 60 on top of that. A new branch office in the metropolitan area of Chicago will also be opened and, home to applications engineers and marketing managers, serve to maximise the company’s presence in the United States.
Roboze manufactures around 30% of the components of its machines in house, most considered core-technology elements. It writes the software, designs the user interface and is also responsible for producing the extrusion heads. Between the Roboze One series and the Argo 500 platform, Roboze’s product range is notably compatible with a range of high-performance materials. The Argo 500 is Roboze’s newest offering. Capable of large-scale prints, it supports PEEK; Carbon PA; ULTEM AM9085F; and Carbon fibre-reinforced PEEK. Meanwhile the Roboze One supports Carbon PA; Strong ABS; and ABS-ESD, while the Roboze One +400 is compatible with PEEK; Carbon PA; and ULTEM AM9085F.
These machines, powered by the aforementioned high-performance polymers, are enabling significant progress to be made in an array of vertical markets. Roboze has invested much of its time and effort into industry, and is now planning to establish a division dedicated to medical technology, and bring new innovations to market. It is set to kickstart six different R&D projects, teaming new 3D printing technologies with new materials to create and improve medical applications for ‘less invasive and more cost-effective procedures.’ One of these projects will look to design and fabricate the prototype of a 3D bio-plotter for the 3D printing of scaffolds in compatible and implantable biomaterials. For this program, Roboze has received regional approval, and will team up with the University of Salento and the San Raffaele Hospital.
