HP Launches Advanced Metal 3D Printing Technology

HP has kept true on their promise to transform 3D printing and on Monday, the company launched what they dubbed to be the world’s most advanced 3D printing technology for the mass manufacturing of production-grade metal parts.

3D printing is still a small part of the metals industry but in the future, it is expected to grow and though it’s mostly used to fabricate prototypes nowadays, it can also be 50 times more productive than conventional means of producing metal parts.

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With the automotive industry producing billions of metal parts each year, the implications are massive.

“We are in the midst of a digital industrial revolution that is transforming the $12 trillion manufacturing industry. HP has helped lead this transformation by pioneering the 3D mass production of plastic parts and we are now doubling down with HP Metal Jet, a breakthrough metals 3D printing technology,”

–  Dion Weisler, CEO and President, HP Inc.

The HP Metal Jet will begin to produce stainless steel finished parts for now, during the first part of 2019, when the customers will be able to upload their 3D designs and receive the parts in large quantities from the Metal jet Production Service.

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The HP Metal Jet will come with a price tag of $399.000 and start shipping in 2020 and become more widely available come 2021, according to the company.