Desktop Metal Starts Shipments of Production System P-50

Desktop Metal has shipped its first Production System P-50 printer to Stanley Black & Decker, marking the commercialization of the company’s flagship additive manufacturing technology for mass production of end use, metal parts.

The P-50 is the product of nearly $100 million in investment and a 4-year development program overseen by Desktop Metal engineers and materials scientists. The P-50 is designed to mass produce high-performance metal parts with the repeatability and cost required to compete with conventional manufacturing.

Stanley Black & Decker, the first P-50 customer, is a purpose-driven industrial organization that operates largest tools and storage business, including such iconic brands as DEWALT, BLACK+DECKER and CRAFTSMAN.

The Production System

Created by the inventors of binder jetting and single-pass inkjet technology, the Production System is an industrial manufacturing platform powered by Desktop Metal’s Single Pass Jetting technology. It is designed to achieve speeds up to 100 times those of legacy powder bed fusion additive manufacturing technologies and enable production quantities of up to millions of parts per year at costs competitive with conventional mass production techniques. The platform supports a robust materials library including 10 qualified metal alloys–from commercially pure copper to stainless steels such as 17-4PH–with additional metal alloys in active development.

For more information on the P-1, the P-50, and Production System technology, click here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.