Desktop Metal Ships First Additive Manufacturing Production System to Stanley Black & Decker
The P-50 is designed to mass produce high-performance metal parts with the repeatability and cost required to compete with conventional manufacturing.
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Desktop Metal has shipped its first Production System P-50 printer to Stanley Black & Decker. Photo Credit: Desktop Metal
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 (AM) technology for mass production of end-use, metal parts. Stanley Black & Decker operates one of the world’s largest tools and storage business, including such brands as Dewalt, Black+Decker and Craftsman.
The P-50 is the product of nearly $100 million in investment and a four-year development program overseen by Desktop Metal engineers and materials scientists. It is designed to mass produce high-performance metal parts with the repeatability and cost required to compete with conventional manufacturing.
The company says this printer is the fastest way to 3D print metal parts at-scale and it was created by the inventors of binder jetting and single-pass inkjet technology. The printer is 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 AM 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 materials library which includes 10 qualified metal alloys — from commercially pure copper to stainless steels such as 17-4PH — with additional metal alloys in active development.
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