In September 2017, we developed a concept of a 3D printer with the large printing area, using strong plates with high melting point.

Our research demonstrated that common 3D printing technologies with the use of rods have low productivity at large expenses on expendables.

Rod is a plastic wire, processed by design and wound around a coil, manufactured from plastic granules. Therefore, we decided to use basic and cheap raw material, plastic granules. Due to this, we became one of three granule printing developers in the world despite the fact that 3D printing with plastic granules was earlier deemed technically infeasible.

Granules produced by world industry are essentially cheaper.
They are versatile to the highest extent, while there is a lack of rods from high strength plastics.

At the same time, the kinematics of the first granule 3D printer was designed and built, and in November 2017, a prototype named Big Guy started printing large-scale objects.

In summer 2019, we released several prototype printers using the VTPM technology, and tested operation parameters of several granule printing heads in a large-scale industry 3D printer of this new project.

Result testing

Therefore, our team developed the unique 3D printing technology and the industrial 3D printer that uses it.

Following various tests, we manufactured a pre-production prototype that allowed concentrating on solving specific tasks from different fields of industry, such as aircraft, space, shipbuilding, vehicle, furniture, medicine, education, architecture, etc.

At the same time, we started developing and testing economical production models, built on possibilities provided by the VTPM technology for industry.

This allowed us developing a price policy, at which the 3D printer purchase is repaid during the first one or two years of operation.

The large-scale high temperature 3D printer, using the VTPM technology and capable of combining several materials in one device, will be available to Russian customers in February 2022.