近日，Polymaker 的 FGF/LFAM 业务发展经理 Deborah Claxton 拜访了我们的合作伙伴 克劳斯玛菲 (Krauss Maffei) )，深入了解 powerPrint 系统及其如何应用颗粒材料。拥有近 190 年历史的克劳斯玛菲，是全球领先的塑料和橡胶生产加工机械设备制造商。该公司始终走在创新前沿，专注于注塑成型、挤出和反应加工等技术领域。如今，克劳斯玛菲正通过整合新型增材制造解决方案，进一步提升其产品实力。
PowerPrint 系统：革新大型 3D 打印
powerPrint系统标志着克劳斯玛菲在增材制造领域迈出了重要一步。这款基于龙门架的大型3D打印机经过精心设计，可实现高质量、可重复的生产，并解决了行业中长期存在的翘曲和粘附失败等难题。
主要特点：
先进的挤出技术：powerPrint系统的核心在于其专门设计的挤出单元。该单元采用更长的螺杆长度以实现均匀熔融，可精确控制材料流速和温度，从而确保打印效果始终如一且质量上乘。
热管理：系统配备隔热外壳和加热打印平台，最大限度地降低了翘曲和粘附问题的风险。
工艺稳定性：凭借先进的温度控制和优化的材料流速，该系统即使在苛刻的工业应用中，也能保证多次生产运行中结果的一致性。
Polymaker粒料的应用案例
为了充分展示该系统的卓越性能，克劳斯玛菲与 Polymaker 合作，生产了一款应用于汽车和家电行业的薄壁部件。该部件使用 PolyCore™ ABS-5022 （20% 碳纤维增强 ABS 复合颗粒）打印而成。这种碳纤维增强材料具有更高的刚性、强度以及在压力下的抗变形能力。 此次合作凸显了 powerPrint 系统在保持高机械完整性的同时，实现快速降本生产的能力。通过支持多个部件同时打印并结合精密后处理，克劳斯玛菲展示了其优化工作流程、显著缩短交付周期的实力。使用 PolyCore™ ABS-5022 缩短了单层打印时间，实现了更低成本的生产，产品的力学性能也与传统制造方法相当。
案例详情：
重量: 0,543 Kg
尺寸: 520 x 310 x 4,5 mm
打印系统: Krauss Maffei powerPrint
打印方: KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH
打印材料: PolyCore™ ABS-5022
“采用 Polycore™ ABS-5022 使我们能够高效生产高质量的大尺寸部件，显著缩短单层时间并降低成本。其材料特性与传统制造方法（如注塑成型）非常接近，使其成为汽车和家电应用的理想选择。此案例充分证明了增材制造技术如何能够自信地从原型制作迈向预量产阶段。” —— 迈克尔·赫尔内德 (Michael Helneder)，克劳斯玛菲客户负责人
展望未来：持续创新
克劳斯玛菲在增材制造领域的愿景，延伸至推出基于工业机器人的新型系统。该系统将于 2025 年在巴黎 JEC 复合材料展上首次亮相，它将实现多维度打印，为复杂几何形状和非平面设计开辟新的可能性。通过将数据追踪和先进聚合物材料融入其解决方案，克劳斯玛菲持续为行业设立质量和效率的新标杆。
该公司与 Polymaker 在 TCT Asia 2025 等展会上的持续合作，进一步彰显了其致力于通过创新协作应对行业挑战的决心。
结语
克劳斯玛菲凭借 powerPrint 系统进军增材制造领域，充分展现了其对创新和行业领导力的承诺。通过融合尖端技术、以客户为中心的服务以及战略合作伙伴关系，克劳斯玛菲已做好充分准备，引领大规模增材制造的未来发展。
Ethentic and Polymaker are proud to announce their partnership today.
Ethentic will exclusively use Polymaker’s PolyTerra filament for the premiering run of its 3D-printed collectibles. Generative artpieces will be created with an algorithm inspired by the Giant’s Causeway UNESCO site in Northern Ireland, and printed in beautiful pastel colors.
NFTs, Physicals and Climate Impact
Over the last year or so NFTs have exploded in popularity, with celebrities and prominent collectors of all stripes purchasing over $2.5 billion of these tokens in the first half of 2021 alone.
The popular adoption of this new technology has prompted some to discuss the ethics of this trend, specifically with regard to its impact on climate change through carbon emissions indirectly emitted through blockchain mining.
Given Ethentic’s goal to distribute free 3D prints of every generative art piece on their platform, it is doubly important for the project to monitor its environmental impact. That is why, among other carbon offsetting goals, Ethentic chose to partner with Polymaker and exclusively use their PolyTerra bioplastic filament.
PolyTerra is leading the pack in terms of compostability of PLA filaments, meaning Ethentic prints will inherit this environmentally friendly quality as they are created. Furthermore, Polymaker’s partnership with OneTreePlanted results in one new tree being planted per spool of filament, with over 130,000 trees planted to date. The breakdown of this carbon negativity is detailed here.
The Genesis Collection
The genesis collection on Ethentic - The Causeways - consists of 2500 pieces. Each owner of an Ethentic art piece gets membership benefits as the community grows, including but not limited to: exclusive minting opportunities, automatic whitelisting, and insider access to future products developed by the team.
Check out the Ethentic Twitter and Discord chat for information on how to participate in the upcoming sale, and join us as a founding member of the Web3D initiative.
We'd like to present you with a Polymaker customer story. Check how AlemhReview uses PolyLite™ PETG to create his own Logo Lamp
Hello everyone,
Thank you for the opportunity to share and support my work!
For about 2 years I have been in the world of 3D printing and since 6 months I have opened my Instagram page and my YouTube channel (AlemhReview) in which I show my projects and my works. Over time the page has grown and I felt the need to have a physical space, a place dedicated to my social channels that had a distinctive sign. For this reason I decided to create and 3D print my logo and turn it into a lamp. I have to say thanks to Samuel Mazuy (@3dprint_design3d on Instagram) that helped me to model my logo aligning perfectly with my idea. He is very skilled and deserved so much!
In these pictures you can watch to the first renderings of the model.
As you can see in the image below, the model was designed to contain lights inside that would have been chosen later:
Once the model was ready I had to choose the material to use and thought the best choice was PolyLite™ PETG because I would have had to insert lights inside that would have generated heat and for this reason PLA would not have been suitable while materials such as ABS would have been excessive as well as being more difficult to print .The next step was to print all the about 18 parts so I divided file on Cura slicer based on color and size and start printing.
After I printed everything the difficult part began: the best option was to use single small led bulbs, but the difficulty for me was to find a way to fix them to the print and create an electrical system to turn them on, which I never did before. I like challenges and so I decided to go all the way and understand how to create the electrical system until I was able to create it. Beacuse of that I pierced the various pieces to be able to insert the bulbs.
At this point I drew and cut a shape of my logo in pressed cardboard, which would have been useful both to give a background to the model and to hide the cables.
Then I glued the LEDs to the 3D printing with hot glue, maintaining an order of positive and negative poles in order to create a parallel lighting system. I recovered some copper wires and started to tie all the lights together and testing it:
Next step, once the lighting system was finished, that remained was to paint the logo shape and fix the various prints to it through hot glue:
When the job was complete I plugged all the cables together and plugged in a socket of the correct voltage and an on / off button and finally I was able to fix it to the wall:
With these latest images here is a huge spoiler of my new little "studio", which is not yet complete, but finally has its distinctive feature in the center, the channel logo. I hope you enjoyed the project and that there will be new ones soon!
Keep printing and always believe in yourself!