Forust 3D’s Accessory Line Gives New Life to Wood Waste

US-based Forust 3D was founded with a mission to make high-volume wood 3D printing affordable, reliable and sustainable. To do this, it leverages the speed, precision and quality of the binder jetting process to produce strong, lightweight wood components. Two wood waste materials, sawdust and lignin, are used as the printing material for this purpose. Forust 3D aims to contribute to responsible material value chains that will eventually make it possible to achieve net zero carbon emissions.

This is particularly significant because, according to the company, 15 billion trees are felled every year to make paper, build houses and manufacture furniture. Which equates to 84 million tons of wood waste sawdust per year. Some of this waste is recycled and sold to downstream markets to make particleboard or wood pellets for energy, but the opportunities for recycling these waste products are many and offer unimagined possibilities.

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Additive Manaufacturing and Forust 3D

Forust 3D uses high-speed 3D printing to give these discarded resources a new life. The company produces strong, beautiful and environmentally friendly wood products from wood waste. The manufacturing process used was developed by Desktop Metal, who acquired Forust in 2021, and is based on using industrial sawdust waste as a 3D printing material for mass production in furniture, architecture, consumer goods and even luxury car interiors.