3D printing metal technology
The technology of 3D printing was revolutionary when it was first introduced to the industrialists and scientists. This was a boon for the engineers and developers as it was now possible for them to create more sophisticated and prototype pieces of equipment with ease and with all the precise specifications they want. This wasn’t possible earlier as the facility of 3D printing wasn’t available so the developers had to be dependent on some other manufacturers for producing their equipment. And there was no guarantee that the finished product would be satisfactory. The availability of 3D printing technology to common people revolutionized the way of creating and making new things.
When the option of metal was added to the 3D printers, there was a whole new addition to the level of innovation that we could pursue with this new technology and especially for engineers, it was a dream come true as now they had the freedom to create their pieces of equipment using metal 3D printing technology.
Copper as a 3D printing metal
The 3d printing metal technology might have been path-breaking but everything has a limitation and in the case of metal 3D printing was that some metals couldn’t be used for 3D printing. Copper was one of those metals and as we are all very familiar with the commonality of usage of copper. So despite having a 3D printing metal technology at our fingertips, we couldn’t develop some of the most common tools that we need for some basic engineering professions.
The US-based company Markforged has offered innovation in this area and added a full copper printing option with their Metal X 3D printer. The Metal X 3D printer has already garnered some appreciation among developers due to the long list of compatibility of metals that it offers.
The new copper printing facility using 3D metal printing has been proven to be very useful from the manufacturing standpoint as everything from our cars to our lightings, everything uses copper and now that we have a 3D printing option, one can build our design of electrically working pieces of equipment using a simple metal 3D printer.
Besides adding to the creativity, the biggest advantage of 3D printing metal is that we can use the technology to effectively replace any bad part of our devices by ourselves, now that we can 3D print copper. Also, it reduces the wastage of material and we can now efficiently produce copper materials at our leisure. The market study by Value Market Research gives an elaborate future scope of 3D metal printing market, with forecasts and market drivers from 2020 to 2026.
Anay Malhotra a qualified computer analyst turned freelancer who writes for Value News where his passion and hard work has earned him a Star Employee for 2 consecutive months. He has been working and exploring varied professionals like Modelling, Event Management and Writing.