Photocentric to unveil large-format 3-D printing capabilities at Formnext

Peterborough-based Photocentric, a manufacturer of parts, photopolymer resins and 3-D printers will be exhibiting at Formnext 2022, showcasing a wide range of exhibits 3-D printed at its purpose-built print farm. The event is taking place 15-18 November in Frankfurt, Germany.

Some of the parts on display at Formnext have been produced in the largest Photocentric 3-D printer to date, Titan; a prototype with a massive 700 x 395 x 1,200mm build volume, an impressive 8k 32in LCD screen, a fast 16mm/hr and a 91µm pixel pitch resolution.

This disruptive combination of enormous size, high resolution, print speed and accuracy makes large scale production a reality for additive manufacturing applications in automotive, transport, creative arts and merchandising.

Paul Holt, founder of Photocentric, said: “We are thrilled to be back at Formnext bringing our latest advancements on materials, hardware and control software to scale up additive manufacturing processes through automation and enable customers to run production parts in our 66,000ft² digital factory.

“This year, we are co-exhibiting with software partner Core Technologie; jointly, we have developed Photocentric Additive software for our Liquid Crystal 3-D printers. On display there will be an array of parts with textures and finishes that we manufacture using the combined technologies.”

Photocentric is delivering ceramic production parts in alumina and silica, benefitting from extensive years of experience in photopolymer and LCD-based large-scale manufacturing to mass manufacture alumina parts.

Great versatile ceramic
Alumina is a great versatile ceramic showing superior electronic, chemical and thermal properties and customers use it in advanced applications such as aerospace, medical, automotive, chemical and electronic industries.

Photocentric is working in partnership with Centre of AM Excellence (AM-COE) to provide mass production of silica cores with improved performance beyond what injection moulding can offer. Typically, customers are from high-value-manufacturing industries such as aerospace, energy, automotive and oil and gas.

Dental labs have eagerly adopted Photocentric’s latest plant-based resins and processes to use more sustainable materials and less energy. The results are cost-effective production runs and affordable patient care. At Formnext, Photocentric will be displaying dental models made in several materials and optimised for various 3-D printers.

Photocentric has partnered with Loctite and BASF Forward AM to develop and validate high-performance engineering-grade resins for industrial applications. On show there will be parts with remarkable properties such as high elongation, high rebound and high impact absorption.

Aerospace turbine blade ceramic cores printed by AM-COE, Automotive vents printed by 3-D Next Level, aligners and mouthguards printed by S4S Dental, immobiliser casts printed by Xkelet are some of the 3-D prints to be exhibited at the Photocentric stand (Hall 12, Stand D79).

Get a free ticket and book a meeting (photocentricgroup.com/Formnext #Booking).