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ExOne announces its largest 3D printing system Exerial for industrial series production

Industrial 3D printer manufacturer ExOne today announced the upcoming availability of its largest 3D printing system, the Exerial

The Exerial system allows customers to engage with indirect printing technology for industrial series production, beyond the rapid prototyping and small batch production for which the company's other systems are currently being used.

Compared to ExOne's other indirect printing systems, the Exerial is unique as it contains multiple industrial stations that allow for continuous production and simultaneous processing.

The Exerial is equipped with two job boxes, each 1.5 times larger than the single job box in ExOne's next largest model, the S-Max. The Exerial system offers a total build platform of 3,168 liters and is expected to be capable of printing output rates nearly four times faster than the S-Max. The Exerial also features a new recoater system, multiple print heads and automation controls.

The system uses ExOne's binder jetting technology and utilizes its multiple print heads to selectively dispense micro-droplets of specially-engineered binder into very thin layers of powdered material inside each of the two job boxes.

As part of the development of the Exerial, the company has filed five patents related to machine design elements.

"ExOne's industrial customers are pressing for latter stage technology to address their production needs with a 3D printing system that supports higher volumes and automation for the industrial production environment. When the Exerial system rolls out this year, ExOne will have addressed the industrial-level solution, further separating binder-jetting as a more cost effective technology than other 3D printing solutions," said S. Kent Rockwell, Chairman and CEO of ExOne.

"While our machine R&D focus in 2014 concentrated more intently on this type of customer base, ExOne continues to address the growing needs of our rapid prototyping and low volume production customers with further improvements in our existing machine portfolio platforms – the S-Max, S-Print and M-Flex – and through the development of additional binder sets and printing materials."

ExOne will formally debut the Exerial machine at the GIFA International Foundry Trade Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, on June 16-20, 2015.

"We are investing in the latter stages of our R&D process for the Exerial as we respond to an initial purchase order of four machines," said Rainer Hoechsmann, Chief Development Officer of ExOne. "We expect to deliver the first beta machine and then the other three machines over the course of the first three quarters of this year, with additional commercial availability likely at the end of 2015 or early 2016."

ExOne announces its largest 3D printing system Exerial for industrial series production

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