The ACEO team from WACKER, which is behind the system for 3D printing silicones, has opened its Open Print Lab in Burghause, where customers can experience additive manufacturing with silicone first-hand.
Georg Willmerdinger media-management@wacker.com
ACEO Wacker
3D-Silikon-Druck, Dr. Vera Seitz, Katharina Berres
Premiered at K 2016, the ACEO technology, which offers freedom of design with an elastic material, brings hardware and software especially for silicone 3D printing to the market.
These silicones keep their outstanding properties such as temperature and radiation resistance, biocompatibility, a broad colour range or variation of hardness throughput the 3D printing process.
The ACEO automated web shop – a world first for silicone elastomers – allows customers to register, upload their designs, get a quote, and have their 3D printed parts shipped worldwide.
"Information and education across industries are key to understanding the variety of opportunities and applications offered by the ACEO technology," said Dr Bernd Pachaly, Head of Project 3D Printing at WACKER SILICONES. "We want customers to understand how our solution matches their needs. There is no better way than learning by first-hand experience. This is why we created our Open Print Lab."
At the ACEO Campus in Burghausen, Germany, the Open Print Lab offers tailor-made programs to small groups of up to four people. After registration, customers and the ACEO team define date, expectations and goals of the workshop. Participants will go through individual trainings, consisting of theoretical and printing sessions from additive manufacturing basics to advanced design.