Seurat Technologies, an American metal 3D printing startup, has announced that it has received orders for 25 metric tons of parts, already exhausting the technological possibilities in its new production plant. The company has signed letters of intent with three manufacturers of tools, energy and transport applications. Seurat hopes to begin order fulfillment in 2023, but is currently still expanding its 9,300 square meter factory, powered by 100% green energy and capable of producing 500 tons of parts per year.
Seurat uses the proprietary Area Printing technology at work, which is based on the so-called “Optically Addressed Light Valves” (OLAV) that direct two million points of light onto a layer of powdered metal. The company’s production offering consists in selling long-term production capacity to large industrial companies. Therefore, it is not a typical 3D printing house, accepting orders for 3D prints from customers, but a model based on providing processing capacity to selected companies for a contracted period of time. Seurat hopes to constantly develop more production plants, offering an identical model of cooperation.
The company positions itself as “part of the green manufacturing revolution” and hopes to competitively replace traditional manufacturing technologies such as machining, casting and forging, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste and related production energy requirements in addition to freight, transportation and storage.
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