Bangalore headquartered, Indo-MIM, world’s largest supplier of Metal Injection Molding has announced its alliance with Massachusetts based Desktop Metal a pioneer in making metal 3D printing accessible to manufacturers and engineers. The strategic partnership was inked on 21st May 2019 where both the companies have agreed to offer innovative solutions to enable the companies around the world to design and produce metal additively manufactured parts at scale and shorten time to market.
“This is a major step forward in the progress of additive manufacturing,” said Krishna Chivukula, Jr., CEO of Indo-MIM. “As the world’s largest MIM house, we know our customers in automotive, aerospace and other key industries will reap the benefits of this new mass manufacturing technology. We are excited to partner with Desktop Metal to bring metal additive manufacturing closer to those companies looking to achieve the speed, cost, and quality benefits to their businesses. With the Production System now joining our state-of-the-art factories, we will be fully integrated to provide customers with a one-stop resource for the manufacturing of complex precision components and sub-assemblies with additive manufacturing."
Indo-MIM, being one of the first companies to deploy the Desktop Metal Production System in its state-of-the-art factories, would apply its renowned expertise in design, tooling, sintering, materials, and its full range of finishing and assembly operations, to deliver high-precision metal 3D printed parts to companies covering the sectors from the automotive, aerospace, medical, industrial machinery industries and more. As a strategic partner, Indo-MIM is expected to become a full-service manufacturing partner for Desktop Metal, providing companies looking for a wide range of mass production with quantities of high-quality metal parts, ranging from tens of thousands to one million. It will also offer the consulting services to the customers around the downstream manufacturing.
Manoj Kabre, Vice President of Indo MIM comments, “We will be able to participate into prototypes and lower volumes where investment in tooling for MIM was at times one of the major investments holding back the customers from embracing this technology. Also, the additive manufacturing technique is expected to enable the designers to further add complexity to the design and integrate the components thereby rationalising the assembly.”
The introduction of the Production system, powered by Single Pass Jetting Technology, into the company’s state-of-the-art factories would provide the customers with a one-stop resource for manufacturing of complex precision components and sub-assemblies with additive manufacturing.
The Production System by Indo-MIM is the world’s first and only metal 3D printing system for mass production that delivers the speed, quality, and cost-per-part needed to compete with traditional manufacturing processes. The system is designed to print a broad range of alloys, including reactive metals such as titanium and aluminium and enables the use of metal powders that are 80 percent lower cost than laser powder bed fusion metals, delivering parts at 1/20th the cost. Designed around the MIM chemistry and powder supply chain, it allows access to a large and established ecosystem of low-cost, high-quality alloys with a mature supply chain and well-studied controls.
The CEO and co-founder of Desktop Metal, Ric Fulop avers that both the Desktop Metal and Indo-MIM are intensively rooted in the MIM Technology and share an unconstrained commitment to elevating the availability of the industrial additive manufacturing technologies. He firmly believes that the collaboration of the two companies will help deliver the power and promise of Desktop’s Production system to the companies with diverse manufacturing needs.
Indo-MIM will install the Production System in its San Antonio, Texas factory this summer and begin working with customers as early as fall 2019. For more details visit https://www.indo-mim.com/