With the recent launch of Lithoz’s Ceramic 3D Factory, a global network of service providers leveraging the company’s LCM technology, ceramic additive manufacturing is becoming more widely accessible.
For years, ceramic additive manufacturing was limited largely to rapid prototyping and R&D applications. As the technology and materials have evolved thanks to industry leaders like Lithoz, production applications have become viable, with particular interest from the aerospace, medical, and dental industries. Still, the technology has remained relatively niche due to hurdles like accessibility. All that is now changing, as the technology and market for ceramic additive manufacturing continues to mature and global production services and networks take shape.
Austrian company Lithoz recently launched the Ceramic 3D Factory, which aims to make ceramic additive manufacturing more scalable and accessible through a global network of service bureaus using Lithoz’s Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) technology. Notably, this international network for ceramic AM is focused on fulfilling serial production applications to meet growing demand from industrial end users for high-quality technical ceramic parts.
The Ceramic 3D Factory brings together Lithoz’s ceramic AM solutions—including CeraFab 3D printers, premium materials, and its new CeraControl software—with professional manufacturing service bureaus based all over the world, such as North America, Europe, and Asia. The pioneering ceramic AM production offering will play a key role in scaling up industrial applications for the technology, including the production of aerospace, semiconductor, and medical devices. Importantly, it will also help to bring this industry-leading ceramic AM technology to a wider number of end-users.
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