If you want to know about additive manufacturing, talk to Matsuura about Desktop Metal

One of the top subtractive machine tool manufacturers in the world, Matsuura are now also heavily invested in additive manufacturing technology. MTDCNC’s Lyndsey travels to Matsuura’s state of the art additive manufacturing centre in Coalville Leicestershire to find out about this rapidly expanding sector of the parts manufacturing process. Peter Harris from Matsuura explains that powder based metal printing on an industrial scale needs to be housed in a more controlled environment. As the sophistication of additive manufacturing machines increases companies are looking to move on from prototype parts & small batch runs to producing parts in there hundreds and even thousands, The Desktop Metal Shop System has the capacity to fulfil these requirements printing in 316 & 174 stainless steel. The whole process includes, printing, curing, powder removal & sintering & Matsuura have become quite the experts in these processes, so if you’re looking at additive manufacturing call Matsuura now.