CEO of FIT Group, Carl Fruth, says of the company’s growth, “Having bought nine laser melting systems during the last year, we are now going to order three additional big multilaser melting machines as well as two further electron beam melting machines. The more important milestone is, however, to combine these technologies in an integrated purpose built additive factory with reliable processes, minimizing the technology risks. This is what qualifies us as the industrial partner to implement new manufacturing concepts with customers worldwide.”
They also see this growth as a part of a larger industrial adoption of 3D printing. Alexander Oster, CTO of the FIT Group, adds, “We are about to enter a new era of industrial production, and with our new factory we intend to make a major contribution to this trend. The successful development of the new standard format 3MF for industrial print data by Microsoft and FIT has proved to be a good start.”
The FIT Group’s addition to the 3MF Consortium and this new facility indicate the company’s shift from being an important part of the 3D printing industry to global manufacturing as a whole. Combined with the mass 3D printing facility opened by GE, this is also an indicator that there may be more such endeavors to follow from other companies as well.
