Mastrex has launched the MX300, an industrial laser powder mattress fusion metallic 3D printer priced at $185,000.
The system includes a 300 x 300 x 350 mm construct quantity and twin 500W lasers, and is suitable with titanium, chrome steel, aluminum, cobalt-chrome, and Inconel. The MX300 is meant to serve producers looking for production-grade metallic additive manufacturing with out the capital outlay sometimes related to established LPBF platforms.
The MX300 sits on the higher finish of Mastrex’s present product vary, which additionally contains the MX100, a desktop LPBF system priced at roughly $39,000. Collectively, the 2 platforms place Mastrex as providing entry factors throughout completely different price range thresholds throughout the industrial metallic AM market.
“Launching the MX300 is a crucial milestone for Mastrex, as we proceed our mission to allow the present and subsequent era with applied sciences which can be sturdy, dependable, and accessible,” mentioned Ilay Fridland, Co-Founder at Mastrex. “Mixed with our legacy in laser excellence, the MX300 is the top of precision and efficiency.”
Focusing on machine retailers and critical-part producers
The MX300 is directed at producers and machine retailers working in aerospace, protection, and medical functions, all sectors the place entry to superior supplies and tighter manufacturing lead instances are recurring operational pressures.
The system’s structure is described by the corporate as designed to scale back downtime and combine into present manufacturing environments with minimal disruption, whereas additionally providing smaller producers dealing with obstacles to entry resulting from excessive machine prices a possibility.
“Including metallic 3D printing to our machine store has all the time been a precedence, but it surely’s been cost-prohibitive,” mentioned Eli Solomon, Chief Govt Officer of Solomon MFG. “With the accessibility of the MX300, we’re instantly including functionality for our present prospects and uncovering new alternatives. It’s a definite aggressive benefit.”
Mastrex acknowledged the MX300 is constructed on greater than a decade of laser expertise improvement, with the corporate reporting its platforms are priced roughly 50% under comparable legacy LPBF techniques.
