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WEBINAR: Unlocking Production with Industrial AM: Lessons from Experts, Resellers & Real Users

When does resin printing move from a prototype to a production asset? Can SLA patterns actually survive the burnout process in a high-stakes foundry? How does the cost-per-part on an SLA system compare to traditional tooling at scale? If you…

WEBINAR: Unlocking Production with Industrial AM: Lessons from Experts, Resellers & Real Users
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If you’re not familiar, Sulzer is a global leader in critical applications for core infrastructure and processes for large essential industries around the world. As a part of its Flow Division, Sulzer Pump is one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers. The company provides a wide range of products for engineered, configured, and standard pumping solutions as well as essential auxiliary equipment. Sulzer Pump uses Raplas’s SLA technology, which leads to massive lead-time reductions in investment casting.

Why Attend?

In this webinar, viewers heard from an expert, (Richard Woolridge, CEO and Co-Founder of Raplas), a reseller (Frank Marangell, Founder of Ugogo 3D), and a user (Chad Hibner, a project engineer at Sulzer Pumps). With these three perspectives, attendees learned about the following topics:

  • The Casting Workflow: Integrating SLA patterns into modern foundry operations.
  • Engineering Fundamentals: Why the Raplas architecture is built for “always-on” manufacturing.
  • The Business Case: Calculating cost-per-part, reducing risk, and knowing when resin makes economic sense.
  • Scaling Up: Moving from one-off parts to flexible, high-volume production.

Meet Our Speakers

As the founder of Ugogo3D, Frank is dedicated to bringing the most advanced and commercially proven additive manufacturing technologies to a wide range of industries. He believes in helping businesses scale efficiently, accelerate their growth, and bring products to market faster by leveraging cutting-edge 3D printing solutions.