The factory could produce up to 500 tons of 3D printed metal parts per year using an all-electric process.
This follows expressions of interest from customers from the tooling, energy, transportation and other industries for 25 tons of metal parts.
Seurat’s Area Printing process works ten times faster than Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) 3D printing, the company’s website said.
“Our novel Area Printing process can scale to outcompete traditional manufacturing in every way - cost, quality, and volume, while also reducing our dependence on dirty fossil fuels,” said James DeMuth, co-founder and CEO of Seurat. “High volume orders of this magnitude are historic for the 3D metal printing industry and a tremendous step forward for the decarbonization of manufacturing.”
Seurat says that it has raised US$79 million from investors such as Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund, True Ventures, and Porsche Automobil Holding SE, and has over 155 patents granted and pending.
