Up went the curtain. And forward stepped the crowd. EOS had the industry’s attention.
What appeared from underneath the veil was a bold statement. Aided by a new-look design that replaced the matte ‘machine white’ shade EOS has come to be synonymous with; the company was launching a marked advancement on one of the most popular metal 3D printing platforms on the market: the M 400 series.
The adoption of the new colour scheme – a striking charcoal grey with black trim – might typically indicate a new era. But EOS has been doing what it did here for more than 35 years.
At Formnext, EOS introduced the EOS M4 ONYX, a next-generation metal system that delivers new performance levels, improved reliability, and milestone achievements in productivity and sustainability.
For Marie Niehaus-Langer, the CEO of EOS, it represented an opening into larger-scale serial manufacturing in AM. It represented industrialisation. It represented innovation.
“Making sure,” Niehaus-Langer says of the motivation behind EOS M4 ONYX, “that users can manufacture with a superior uptime, that we look into repeatability, which needs to be way more stable, and combine that with more safety and more sustainability in the process.”
Two months on from the launch at Formnext, Niehaus-Langer welcomes TCT into her office on the first floor of EOS’ HQ in Krailling, Munich. We exchange pleasantries, bemoan the January chill, and then commence the discussion on one of Niehaus-Langer’s foremost passions: innovation.
