The Advantages of Pellet Extrusion

Pellet extrusion 3D printing, also referred to as fused granulate fabrication (FGF), is rapidly gaining momentum among innovative manufacturing companies seeking to reduce costs and speed up production.

With a tenfold increase in printing speed and a tenfold decrease in material costs compared to filament-based printing (FFF, FDM), as well as a material catalog of high-performance materials, this technology is revolutionizing production practices and supplanting conventional processes.

Industries taking advantage of pellet extrusion additive manufacturing (AM) are diverse with applications including:

• Tooling
  • Sand casting patterns and core equipment
  • Thermoforming molds
  • Metal forming tools
  • Composite layup tools
• End-use parts
  • Commercial HVAC
  • Aerospace
  • Durable goods
  • Furniture and lighting
• Jigs and fixtures
• Full-scale prototypes

3D Systems’ pioneering EXT Titan Pellet series were among the first large-format 3D printers to offer pellet extrusion and have proven their value with a large global install base that relies on them for lights-out industrial production.

These high-speed printers boast expansive build volumes of up to 1270mm x 1270mm x 1829mm and support a wide range of pellet materials, ranging from common plastics like PLA, ABS, and PETG to advanced engineering composites such as CF-PC, CF-PEI, and GF-PEKK.

In this webinar, 3D Systems applications engineer André Metzger will delve deeper into the benefits of pellet extrusion AM, cover the rich feature-set offered by EXT Titan Pellet systems, and explore applications and real customer use cases.