Berlin-based Quantica, a specialist in inkjet applied sciences, is debuting its NovoJet OPEN platform this week at Formnext 2023. The system, set to start out delivery in early 2024, is a part of a newly launched beta program, via which choose companions, together with Fraunhofer IPA, will make the most of Quantica’s inkjet printing expertise.
The NovoJet OPEN is predicated on Quantica’s proprietary NovoJet expertise, an inkjet printhead able to dealing with a wider vary of supplies than different inkjet-based methods. This consists of ultra-high-viscosity supplies as much as 380 mPa•s, excessive particle load supplies, massive particle dimension and conductive pastes. The system can also be able to multi-material printing. This opens up a variety of purposes for industrial customers in search of to leverage inkjet printing for high-performance, end-use components in industrial and analysis spheres. The printhead is manufactured by Xaar, a number one producer of piezo-based drop-on-demand inkjet applied sciences, via an unique business partnership signed earlier this 12 months.
The beta program launched at Formnext already consists of companions such because the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and REHAU Industries, a pacesetter in polymer options. Each companions will work with Quantica to validate supplies for its NovoJet OPEN answer, develop purposes and fine-tune machine parameters. By way of utility, the beta customers might be taking a look at a variety of industries, from dental to printed electronics.
“At this 12 months’s Formnext, we’ll ship on our promise to supply new materials freedom. Taken collectively, the NovoJet OPEN introduction and the launch of its beta program signify an thrilling, groundbreaking step ahead for us and the trade,” mentioned Quantica CTO Ramon Borrell. “Our system empowers industries to print and mix supplies that had been beforehand thought unimaginable to deposit with inkjet expertise, paving the way in which for the event of future manufacturing processes and merchandise.”
Jan Janhsen, Group Supervisor of AM for Photopolymers at Fraunhofer IPA, mentioned of the beta program: “We’re trying ahead to collectively exploring new boundaries within the area of ultra-high viscous printing in numerous sectors, from dental to printed electronics. The system offers us the chance to print materials courses that couldn’t be processed with inkjet printheads earlier than, opening up utterly new fields for purposeful 2D and 3D inkjet printing.”
Quantica is exhibiting at Formnext 2023 at sales space D39, Corridor 11.1., the place guests can see its NovoJet OPEN system first hand.
