Desktop Metal was founded in 2015 and recruited a number of material scientists and other engineers from MIT.By May of this year, the company had raised $97 million and was ready to unveil the Studio and Production Systems.
| "The DM Studio System is designed for safe metal rapid prototyping in the office or shop. With a price of $120,000, it’s is much less expensive than industrial powder bed fusion systems. Rather than using expensive, high-powered lasers, the DM Studio System relies on what Desktop Metal dubs Bound Metal Deposition (BMD). BMD sees metal powder bound in a plastic matrix melted and deposited onto a print bed in a method similar to fused filament fabrication (FFF) or fused deposition modeling."| | "The DM Production System, as one might guess from the title, is for batch production of metal parts. It is expected to cost around $360,000, with additional equipment pricing to be determined, and is described as being 100 times faster than powder bed fusion technologies. It achieves this through the use of Single Pass Jetting, in which an inkjet print head deposits a binder onto a bed of metal powder and heats it in a single pass so that, with each move of the print head, another layer of a build job is made."|
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