{"id":17047,"date":"2019-10-24T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=17047"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:45:14","slug":"talk3d-ric-fulop-desktopmetal-241020195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/talk3d-ric-fulop-desktopmetal-241020195\/","title":{"rendered":"#TALK3D: Interview with Ric Fulop, CEO of Desktop Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since its beginnings, the company Desktop Metal has been making a lot of noise in the world of 3D printing and beyond. Founded in October 2015, the company designs, manufactures and markets metal additive manufacturing<\/a> systems that are revolutionising metal fabrication. Desktop Metal has raised an impressive $438 million in equity funding from investors such as Google, BMW and Ford over the past four years. We thought it was only fitting to have our first #TALK3D<\/strong> interview with Ric Fulop, CEO and Co-Founder of Desktop Metal, to learn more about his disruptive company!<\/p>\n

A Brief History of Desktop Metal<\/h3>\n

Desktop Metal was founded in 2015 with one mission: to make metal 3D printing accessible for engineering teams. In other words, the company\u2019s aim was to develop a process for metal 3D printing that would be fast and small enough for office settings. It all started back in 2013, when Ric Fulop began collaborating with world-leading experts in materials science, engineering, and 3D printing. Together, they drew multiple independent inventions over the course of two years to form the basis of Desktop Metal\u2019s technology today.<\/p>\n

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Desktop Metal’s Studio System<\/p><\/div>\n

Seven founders participated to the creation of DM: Ric Fulop, Jonah Myerberg, Rick Chin, Yet-Ming Chiang, Ely Sachs, Chris Schuch and A. John Hart. When it was founded, the company raised $14 million in startup funding. A year later it was developing functioning prototypes of its products. After two years of research & development – in April 2017 – Desktop Metal was able to reveal to the public two distinct metal 3D printing systems: the Studio System and the Production System. DM began shipping the Studio System at the end of 2017 and the Production System in 2019.<\/p>

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How is Desktop Metal reinventing metal 3D printing?<\/h3>\n

The Studio System<\/a> is designed for engineers and small production runs, it\u2019s perfectly adapted for an office environment. On the other hand, the Production System is intended for manufacturers and large-scale printing. The two systems include the 3D printer, that creates objects from metal powders (housed in cartridges) and a sintering furnace to densify these objects using thermal processes.<\/p>\n

Unlike other metal 3D printing solutions, the Studio System doesn\u2019t use any lasers or loose powders, it does not require any third party equipment or special facilities – just power and an internet connection. As for the Production System, this is a mass production solution – it uses Single Pass Jetting technology, 100 times faster than other solutions on the market to allow the printing of metal parts at scale.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s #TALK3D with Ric Fulop!<\/h3>\n