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Automation is a very topical thing in additive manufacturing at the moment. With renewed scale, some clients are fervently looking to automate production. Other business cases only make sense with improved conveyancing. In things like depowdering, resurfacing, sieving, and machine turnaround, processes like LPBF can be significantly improved. Improvements in yield, surface, and repeatability, along with cost per part reductions, really matter in 3D printing today.
But the automation companies actually helping firms improve the economics of additive manufacturing are less well known. That’s why we wanted to look into a key player, Ossberger. The 150-year-old engineering firm started in fluid mechanics and now makes plastics processing equipment, industrial cleaning solutions, and powder ma