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• Slowly, we’re coming to grips with low-cost LPBF. Companies like Xact Metal and One Click are making machines available for under $100,000. Easy to use, these are expanding the market....
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Slowly, we’re coming to grips with low-cost LPBF. Companies like Xact Metal and One Click are making machines available for under $100,000. Easy to use, these are expanding the market. Meanwhile, Chinese firms are working on machines priced at $50,000 and even $25,000. But, what about a €10,000 (around $12,000) LPBF machine? Frankly, I would not have thought it possible. That is, until I interviewed Tom Bakker of Metal Base.
Tom is the founder of Metal Base, a company that wants to completely redefine what low-cost LPBF is. Tom is a systems engineer at VDL Enabling Technologies Group, in its Technology & Development division. This is a portion of a leading Dutch industrial group that does precision machinery and advanced mechatronic systems. Their crowning achievement is the wafer handler