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Desktop Metal announces that platinum is now a customer-qualified material on the Production System P-1 with a specialty powder developed by Legor.
Legor is a full-service jewelry manufacturing solutions provider, and the company’s Powmet line of certified pure metal powders is produced for use with laser and binder jet 3D printing systems.
“The qualification of Legor’s Powmet platinum on the Production System P-1 is another major milestone for binder jet 3D printing for the jewelry, watchmaking and luxury goods industry,” says Ric Fulop, founder and CEO of Desktop Metal. “Platinum is known to be a challenging-to-process material in the jewelry industry because of its high hardness and melting point. Our binder jet 3D printing process simplifies platinum production and enables all-new, once-impossible designs.”
”Legor is currently experiencing significant market interest in 3D printing technology, specifically in binder jet technology,” adds Fabio Di Falco, marketing and customer support manager at Legor. “This has led us to address a variety of requests, ranging from prototyping to small-batch production, as well as larger production runs. Thanks to binder jet 3D printing technology, designers can finally imagine and create objects that are currently unproducible with other technologies, thus expanding the boundaries of creativity to shape the future.”
Platinum jewelry designs 3D printed by Legor—including a classic wedding band, a gemstone ring, and a leaf earring—are slated to be part of a multimaterial, multicustomer jewelry display featured by Desktop Metal at Rapid + TCT to be held June 25-27 in Los Angeles.
A video by Legor showing the benefits of binder jetting platinum jewelry can be viewed at https://legor.com/en/prodotto/platinum-3d-printing/.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
Desktop Metal was started to address a problem—how to make metal 3D printing accessible for engineering teams. In 2013, CEO Ric Fulop began collaborating with world-leading experts in materials science, engineering, and 3D printing. Their work…
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