BigRep and Limitless Industries have partnered to industrialise and scale large-format additive manufacturing with steady fibre reinforcement.
Limitless Industries’ steady fibre know-how has been built-in into the BigRep IPSO 105 platform, with the ensuing resolution stated to have the ability to produce ‘large-scale, mechanically bolstered components at economically viable value ranges.’
With this machine, the companions say that customers will be capable of produce elements providing as much as 20x increased power in comparison with unreinforced thermoplastics at lowered prices versus conventional fibre placement methods.
Limitless Industries is a developer of print heads, supplies, and software program in a vertically built-in strategy. By aligning with BigRep, it’s hoping to cut back system complexity and supply a bit of production-grade manufacturing tools.
The built-in resolution is alleged to have the ability to course of high-performance and high-temperature thermoplastics due to a construct chamber that may attain 100°C for enhanced course of stability. It additionally utilises optimised fibre structure via Limitless Industries’ proprietary ‘Akio’ software program platform.
Customers, the companion say, will be capable of deploy this platform for the manufacture of high-strength jigs and fixtures, light-weight structural aerospace components, and customised, load-bearing medical gadgets like orthotics and prosthetics.
“After two years of joint improvement, we’ve reached a degree of technological maturity that can redefine the function of steady fibre in industrial 3D printing,” stated Thomas Janics-Jakomini, CEO of BigRep. “Now’s the suitable time to deliver this innovation to market.”
“Giant-format composite manufacturing has historically been craft-based or required multi-million-dollar investments,” added Stephan Knopf, CEO of Limitless Industries. “This partnership removes these constraints. Clients now achieve entry to a production-ready system for high-strength components with out the normal obstacles to entry.”
The built-in resolution will probably be accessible for buy within the DACH area in the summertime of 2026 by way of a joint gross sales effort, with worldwide enlargement throughout BigRep’s world companion community in Europe, the US, Asia, and Australia anticipated to start via 2027 and 2028. Each firms have stated they are going to put money into scaling experience, gross sales, and repair infrastructure to help world adoption.
