Evolve Creates Production Assessment Program for Additive Manufacturing
This program enables clients to work with a team of engineering experts to analyze and validate the business case of their AM applications on Evolve’s SVP platform, powered by STEP technology.
This image shows an automotive bracket assembly with a half-wash to demonstrate the support material. Photo Credit: Evolve Additive Solutions
Evolve Additive Solutions, a provider of capital equipment and ABS thermoplastic production parts, has developed a Production Assessment Program for additive manufacturing (AM).
This program enables clients to work with a team of engineering experts to analyze and validate the business case of their AM applications on Evolve’s SVP (Scaled Volume Production) platform, powered by STEP (Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process) technology. Clients will then receive their high-fidelity parts as well as a summary report with production validation data.
To accommodate this new program, the headquarters locations in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and the Material Technology Center in Rochester, New York, recently expanded. The Minnetonka facility has added a 11,500-square-foot Production Acceleration Center, which includes an SVP system experience center, metrology test lab, postprocessing lab, training facilities and production parts showroom. The Rochester location added 6,000 square feet, and continues to test and develop new materials.
“This is an exciting time in the growth of Evolve. This expansion will allow us to continue on our path to be the industry leader for higher volume of production thermoplastic applications within the additive manufacturing space,” says Joe Allison, Evolve CEO. “In addition, it provides us the opportunity to show the entire process from discover to delivery.”
- Learn more about the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Check out AM’s “News to AM?” microsite for a compendium of basic AM information.
- Read about how Evolve is preparing for a time in which additive manufacturing directly competes on cost for scale production applications against conventional manufacturing methods, particularly injection molding.
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