Evolve Enhances Portfolio With Global Parts Service, Two More Materials

Evolve Additive Solutions has developed a parts production service, STEP Parts Now, and two more materials, Nylon PA-11(A) and Gray ABS, as it continues to advance its technology to deliver the freedom and flexibility of Additive Manufacturing (AM).

Evolve created the parts production service in an effort to meeting production demand and broaden access to the company’s Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process (STEP) technology. The company says STEP is the only AM process in the market today that can deliver on the fidelity, surface finish, accuracy and material properties required to reliably and repeatably print end-use parts at scale.

Customers can now quote and order STEP parts directly from Evolve through the STEP Parts Now e-commerce portal. STEP Parts Now complements part ordering availability through Evolve’s strategic partners and their STEP production centers, which include Fathom Digital Manufacturing based in the U.S, and alphacam Gmbh based in Germany. Customers now have additional options in their pursuit of additive manufactured parts from prototype through production.

“What we are launching with STEP Parts Now is much more than parts as a service,” says Jeff Hanson, Evolve’s senior vice president of Go-to-Market. “We are increasing accessibility to a newly identified additive manufacturing technology category that finally delivers on past industry promises of materials, features and scalability by additive manufacturing for true production.”

Evolve has also added two new materials to its portfolio — Nylon PA-11(A) and Gray ABS. Evolve says its PA-11(A) for STEP offers significant mechanical performance advantages over powder bed fusion PA-11. Qualities include a superior elongation at break, higher impact strength and a higher heat-deflection temperature (HDT), making Evolve’s PA- 11(A) parts usable in more demanding production applications.

The Gray ABS material complements Evolve’s existing Black ABS and exhibits mechanical properties within 10% of bulk injection-molded ABS. Additionally, it exhibits impressive structural color contrast for fine features and textures.

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