Essentium Launches New High Speed Extrusion 280i HT 3D Printer

Essentium has announced the launch of the all new Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 280i HT 3D Printer. The industry-leading company hopes that this new solution will transform manufacturing floors and solve issues in additive manufacturing relating to speed, strength, and scale. In doing so, Essentium believe that they will encourage the shift from prototyping to full-scale production runs in industries including aerospace, electronics, automotive, contract manufacturing, and consumer goods.

Essentium’s HSE 280i HT 3D Printer will be the first true independent dual extrusion system (IDEX) designed and developed specifically for factory floor demands. Unlike competing IDEX 3D printers, HSE 280i HT 3D Printer true independent dual extruders, meaning that each head is completely independent, on both the X and Y-axis. As such, with the 3D Printer manufacturers will be able to accelerate the time to industrial-scale production of parts, regardless of geometric complexity. This in turn will significantly reduce production costs.

The Essentium HSE 280i HT 3D Printer (Photo Credit: Essentium)

Fifteen times faster than competitive offerings, the 3D Printer delivers world-class print speed exceeding 500 mm/s. This is thanks to its non-slip high torque extrusion system with all linear servo motors. Moreover, while most FFF processes are dependent on a heated build chamber, the HSE 280i HT 3D Printer uses a multimodal heating method to heat the part instead. This in turn means that manufacturers will no longer have to wait for the chamber to heat up to start printing, and thus further reduces production time.