PMMA Customer Workshop
Voxeljet of America inc. hosts second customer seminar for PMMA
In April 2015, voxeljet hosted its second customer seminar in Canton, Michigan . The primary focus was to educate customers on the advantages and using voxeljet’s PMMA solution in the investment casting process. The customer seminar included presentations from David Tait, Managing Director of Voxeljet of America Inc., Ingo Ederer CEO of voxeljet AG, and Tom Mueller, Director of Casting Applications, North America. The Canton facility currently has two printers for PMMA including our VX500 and VX1000.
“Our second customer seminar was very successful”, said David Tait, Managing Director of Voxeljet of America Inc. “We were able to share various historical applications with customers of the aerospace, automotive and heavy equipment sectors. Our presentation highlighted the advantages of using our PMMA solution for investment casting patterns compared with competing wax technologies including QuickCast®. Our PMMA material has negative thermal properties which means that the material shrinks rather than expands in the burn-out process in the autoclave. The result is that our process doesn’t crack the ceramic shell of an investment casting which accounts for approximately 95% of printed casting failures. We are very excited about the opportunity this creates for the market and is a great solution for our customers.”
With approximately 50,000 square feet, our facility will initially operate four large-format printers to support both the sand casting and investment casting markets. The Company expects to install additional sand and plastic printers, including the VX4000 during the course of the year. Voxeljet anticipates its Canton, Michigan facility having similar printing capacity to its Friedberg, Germany service center by the end of 2016.
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Bavarian Founders Award 2015
voxeljet receives Bavarian founder's prize
Lots of reasons to celebrate at voxeljet AG: the innovative company, which has made a name for itself around the world as a manufacturer of industrial 3D printing systems and a service provider for the on-demand production of molds and models, received the Bavarian Founder’s Prize 2015 (Bayerischer Gründerpreis) in the Up-and-Coming category for its outstanding performance.
Dr. Ingo Ederer and Rudolf Franz, members of voxeljet’s executive board, were on hand to receive the prize at the festive award ceremony at the Nuernberg Convention Center on 21 May 2015: “Receiving the Bavarian Founder’s Prize is another important milestone in voxeljet’s history. This award honors exceptionally successful companies that have contributed to the performance of Bavaria as a business location. The fact that the jury has considered us for this category is a great honor for the entire voxeljet team. We view this award not just as an acknowledgment of our activities to date, but also as a highly motivating incentive to continue turning our vision into reality,” says Franz.
With the development of industrial high-performance 3D printing systems, voxeljet has been able to bring the advantages of digital production, which does away with the time- and cost-intensive construction of molds and systems, to many industry sectors. 3D printing delivers significant time and cost advantages for conventional users from the automotive and engineering industries and an increasing number of new users in architecture, life sciences, the film and entertainment industry and many more. As a result of the triumphant success of the 3D technology, the company, which was started in Augsburg in 1999 with four employees and is now listed on the stock exchange, has become a global player with more than 200 employees and branch offices and representations around the globe.
The expansive and successfully implemented corporate strategyis probably one of the reasons why voxeljet received the award in the Up-and-Coming category. The Bavarian Founder’s Prize, an initiative of the Sparkassen, stern, ZDF and Porsche, has been awarded to Bavarian entrepreneurs and initiatives for the six categories Concept, StartUp, Up-and-Coming, Succession, Special Prize and Lifetime Achievement since 1997.
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