Stratasys Limited, a polymer 3D printing solutions company, has unveiled that German service bureau Götz Maschinenbau has invested in four additional production-scale Stratasys H350™ 3D printers to meet growing customer demand for high-quality end-use parts. The investment will ramp up Götz’s total fleet size to six systems.
As per Philipp Götz, Owner, Götz Maschinenbau, the SAF technology used by the H350 systems is ideal for maintaining the high quality yet cost-effective standards expected by its customers. Since the installation of its initial H350 printers, the company has actually won significant new business because of the quality and cost-effectiveness of parts printed on SAF technology. The existing Stratasys 3D printers are operating at full capacity 24/7 and provide an extremely reliable manufacturing solution for high volume, as well as small to medium series production, at a lower price and with shorter lead times than injection moulding or CNC.
The Stratasys H350 3D printer is designed to deliver production-level throughput for end-use parts while providing production consistency, competitive cost per part, and complete control over the production of thousands of parts. In fact, the printer itself is equipped with around a dozen parts 3D printed with SAF technology.
Whether we 3D print five parts or tens of thousands, the consistency of each part is the same across the entire order, ensuring that they can be built directly into machinery and address a wider range of volume production applications, continued Philipp Götz. Essential to Götz’s ability to deliver production-grade plastic parts at high-volume is Stratasys® High-Yield PA11 material for the H350 printer. The bio-based plastic is made of renewable raw materials derived from sustainable castor oil, and enables a high nesting density while maintaining part consistency. Götz has also been an early user of PA12 material, which produces stiffer parts. At volume, SAF™ PA12 allows for fine feature resolution, strength and accuracy build after build, and is most suitable for higher tolerance requirements such as for assemblies and connector applications.