D3-AM GmbH has delivered a LAB II ceramic 3D printing system to a buyer in Germany, positioning the corporate for nearer cooperation within the area. The corporate characterizes the set up as the beginning of a longer-term partnership round additive manufacturing of technical ceramics. Pricing, the client title, and anticipated manufacturing volumes weren’t disclosed.
D3-AM’s Micro Particle Jetting (MPJ) course of makes use of an inkjet printhead to deposit water-based suspensions with excessive solids loading, enabling using a variety of economic ceramic powders. In accordance with the corporate, the system can course of particle sizes as much as 62 µm and produce totally dense components after sintering.
The LAB II can create objects which might be 400 × 480 × 160 mm in dimension and may use supplies like alumina and darkish ceramics, together with sintered silicon carbide (SSiC) and reaction-bonded silicon carbide (RBSiC), which are sometimes arduous to work with utilizing light-based strategies
Eventually 12 months’s Formnext commerce present in Frankfurt, the corporate offered a software-based high quality management software for the LAB II. The machine-learning system analyzes every printed layer in actual time to categorise defects resembling air inclusions and cracks and gives corrective steerage to operators. D3-AM positions the software as a approach to shorten supplies improvement cycles and transfer towards a closed suggestions loop between digital inspection and mechanical validation.
“MPJ has many benefits and contains your entire spectrum of darkish ceramics, because it doesn’t depend on gentle absorption for layer technology,” mentioned Stefan Waldner, Chief Product Officer at D3-AM. “The LAB II is a flexible additive manufacturing system. We encourage our prospects and analysis companions to work with recognized and application-relevant supplies reasonably than relying solely on like-as substitutes. Solely on this means can true innovation emerge and the expertise achieve a foothold in rising markets.”
For 2026, D3-AM highlights new high-performance supplies for MPJ, improvement of business functions, and appearances at ceramitec and Formnext. The corporate additionally factors to the Durst Group’s ninetieth anniversary as a backdrop for additional software program and supplies updates. On the supplies roadmap, D3-AM cites extra certified powders—together with silicon-infiltrated silicon carbide (SiSiC) and higher-purity alumina (99.8%)—whereas persevering with to court docket alternatives in aerospace, power, optics, analysis, and semiconductors.