Metal 3D Printing in Sterling Silver
It's been a long time coming, and finally it's here: Our designs printed directly in Sterling Silver! Yes, instead of printing in a polymer, this process entails a laser beam fusing very fine metal powder. This rings in a new chapter in our ongoing research in Metal 3d Printing for luxury manufacture alongside Technology, using the Concept Laser MLab machine. The image shows the printed pieces still attached to the build platform by their numerous and delicate supports, also
Testing Metal 3D Printing for Luxury Manufacture - with ES Technology and Concept Laser
ES Technology has been in touch again for research collaboration and this time we're working on designs that will challenge the capabilities of Concept Laser's MLab machine to see how it performs at luxury manufacture levels. Our designs will be printed directly in sterling silver by laser fusing a very fine metal powder. We anticipate a difficult surface to polish, but the trade-off is high density and integrity (as opposed to porosity problems in cast metal) and hopefully g
