3Ψ launches metal 3D printing

Today 3Ψ launched a metal 3D printing service for its clients, offered using our recently purchased Markforged’s Metal X 3D printer. Metal X is a brand new kind of 3D printer, which prints metal powder bound in a plastic matrix, thus eliminating safety risks while enabling new features like closed-cell infill for reduced part weight and cost. Multiple industrial metals are printed with this process which (due to its affinity with Metal Injection Molding) produces parts that have the same properties as those of traditional metallourgy methods and do not suffer from the material anisotropy associated with other metal 3D printing techniques. The Metal X is up to 10x less expensive than alternative metal additive manufacturing technologies and up to a 100x less than traditional fabrication technologies like machining or casting.