XYZprinting to move into industrial 3D printing with five new machines and three alliances

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XYZprinting, most renowned for its desktop 3D printing offering, is to launch five new machines at formnext powered by TCT as it enters the industrial 3D printer market.

The company has also immediately extended this entry into industrial 3D printing with three strategic alliances. 

Among the new platforms is a Laser Sintering system and a Full-Colour Binder-Jet printer which will be made available to qualified early access customers in the coming months. The company will showcase its new 3D printing hardware, along with some of its already unveiled solutions, in Hall 3.1, Booth D10 at the Frankfurt-based trade show.

The Laser Sintering system, the MfgPro230 xS, has been designed for use in the engineering, automotive and aerospace markets. It boasts a build volume of 230x230x230cm and is said to be able to produce parts which meet the demanding requirements of the aforementioned industries. The MfgPro230 xS will be available to qualified customers for around $60,000 USD in Q1 of 2018.

Also coming to market for qualified customers in Q1 is the PartPro350 xBC Binder-Jet Full-Colour 3D printer. It has been developed with designers and architects in mind, and XYZprinting believes has an industry-leading productivity with vertical build speeds of 18mm per hour. Its page-wide Binder-Jet printing technology enables full-colour printing in a single process by integrating all steps of printing, colouring and curing at once. The high colour resolution of 1600dpi adds to the accuracy of parts built on the machine, while the efficiency also receives a boost thanks to a removable build tray. Users can replace a new build tray directly into the machine to immediately start a new job. The PartPro350 xBC will be available from $30,000 USD.

In addition to these two systems, XYZprinting will be unveiling three Digital Light Processing (DLP) solutions, all at desktop size but similarly suitable for professional customers. The first is the PartPro100xP which is able to print with rigid, tough, or standard resins, and harnessed for a variety of applications in a variety of industries.

The other two new solutions have been designed for the dental and jewellery markets respectively. DentPro100 xP is being marketed as the company’s most advanced medical printer yet, while the CastPro100 xP is said to be the most affordable high-resolution 3D printer of its kind. The DentPro100 enables high precision and high resolution, and supports XYZ’s FDA Class 1 certified dental resin for tooth modelling, as well as it biomedical resin. The CastPro100 xP, meanwhile, supports various resin materials, and will be available at around $2,699 USD in Q1 2018. XYZ’s other new desktop machines will come to market in Q2 of 2018, the DentPro100 available for around $2,699 USD and the PartPro100 at around $2,399 USD.  

XYZprinting establishes three strategic alliances

XYZprinting has announced three new strategic alliances which extend its expansion into industrial 3D printing, just hours after it was initially publicised.

The first partnership sees XYZ join crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd to invest in Nexa3D, a maker of fast stereolithography professional-grade 3D printers. XYZ will also begin to sell Nexa3D printers under the XYZ brand, and also manufacture other white labeled products on behalf of Nexa3D for players in other vertical markets.

XYZ’s second new alliance is with Digital Wax Systems (DWS). Together, they will seek to accelerate the adoption of affordable professional grade 3D printers around the world. This will also see XYZ manufacturer and sell select DWS SLA printers under its own brand name.

Meanwhile, XYZ has also established a link with Sicnova to deliver large-format plastic extrusion printers, designed to manufacture tailored jigs and fixtures, worldwide. XYZ will look to bring to market its own branded version of the JCR 1000 and JCR 600 platforms in the second half of 2018 and sell them through its expanding 3D printing channel.