Nexa3D Acquires Addifab
The maker of polymer 3D printers and the creator of technology for injection-molding-ready printed tooling are fully joined after announcing a collaboration last year.
Addifab has been acquired by Nexa3D, combining the former’s technology for soluble, printed injection mold tooling with the latter’s high-speed polymer printing platform. Photo Credit: Nexa3D
Polymer 3D printer manufacturer Nexa3D (Ventura, California) has acquired Danish firm Addifab (Taastrup), the creator of the digital tooling process Freeform Injection Molding (FIM).
Last year, Nexa3D and Addifab reached an arrangement where Nexa3D would supply its NXE 400 system — including an industrial 3D printer and wash and cure units — to users of FIM, while Addifab agreed to supply its tooling resins and postprocessing equipment as part of a joint go-to-market collaboration. The companies reported this joint sales and marketing effort successfully converted dozens of customers from traditional tooling to digital tooling.
With this new deal, Nexa3D said it augments its European presence via Addifab’s existing customer center, resin manufacturing facility and fulfillment operation in Copenhagen, Denmark, and that it strengthens its Nexa3D software platform with CAD-to-tool generation workflow, while also building out Nexa3D’a intellectual property.
Addifab enables users to print soluble tools with complex cavities that are soluble post molding. Its xMOLD can run standard resins, enabling companies to test run designs in a molding process using off-the-shelf materials.
- Learn more about Addifab’s Freeform Injection Molding (FIM) process which enables injection molding resins to be processed into complex geometries not otherwise possible.
- Check out this video on cool stuff the AM team discovered at Rapid + TCT 2019, which includes dissolvable injection mold tooling from Addifab.
- Read how Nexa3D technology helped accelerate product development and sustainability for PepsiCo. Now, new blow molds are available in days and cost just a few hundred dollars.
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