Fast Fusion invests £500,000 into ‘Apollo’ 3D printing system

Fast Fusion, a UK-based engineering workforce and sister enterprise of 3D printing {hardware} specialist EVO 3D, has invested greater than £500,000 into bringing to market its ‘Apollo’ system – a full turnkey 3D printing answer that makes use of the facility of robotics to assist the manufacturing of enormous elements and molds. Jake Hand, the Founding father of Fast Fusion, believes this new expertise will assist automotive, aerospace, and furnishings producers obtain high-quality builds at fast speeds – at a fraction of the price of different fashions. He additionally believes greater than £4m value of gross sales are reasonable within the first 12 months, with seven new jobs having already been created, in addition to the fit-out of a purpose-built R&D and demo heart in Skypark, Exeter.

“I’ve been concerned within the sector for a while and firms had been frequently asking for a product that provided them an automatic large-format answer. No one was doing something like this within the UK, so we thought… you already know what, let’s see what we are able to do, and our Apollo system represents an enormous innovation that guarantees to disrupt the established order,” mentioned Jake. “It makes use of a world-class, award-winning pellet extruder, tailor-made management system, and robotic Kuka arm that extends to almost 4 meters. It means customers can design and produce merchandise on a print mattress that’s 2 meters x 3 meters squared, best for creating bespoke furnishings items, giant auto elements, and complicated aerospace elements.”

Apollo, which retails at £250,000, is the primary bespoke cell the corporate is bringing to market – providing sooner speeds than FDM printers (practically 200 instances faster), in addition to the flexibility to make use of tons of of various engineering-grades polymers. Purchasers even have the potential to safe important value financial savings as pellets can value 65% to 90% lower than filament of the identical plastic.

“Our Apollo methods are producing numerous curiosity, and we’ve already agreed reseller agreements with worldwide shoppers, reminiscent of CNC World within the UK, Hyperion in Australia, Maptec in Dubai, and ACCUFACTURE within the USA,” mentioned Jake. “There are additionally numerous home alternatives, and that is simply the beginning. Our R&D workforce are already engaged on the subsequent technology of methods, which have the potential to push innovation even additional. This can embrace the potential of integrating CNC machining into our options and an thrilling Innovate UK-backed challenge that can herald the launch of Evo 1.”

Fast Fusion will probably be opening its Skypark facility in October and – if the pipeline of orders is realized – it should look to create an additional seven positions over the subsequent twelve months.