Japanese-headquartered global foundry group
relies on sand binder jetting from Desktop Metal’s ExOne brand at
facilities in Japan and the United States to deliver high-quality
castings with fast turnarounds
Desktop Metal, Inc. (NYSE: DM) today announced the sale of a
10th digital sand 3D printer to the Kimura Foundry Group, a global
network of foundries outfitted with cutting-edge equipment to
deliver high-quality castings with increased productivity.
Following the purchase of a new S-Max®, Kimura Foundry Group now
owns the largest number of ExOne systems globally.
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Dr. Yoya Fukuda, President of Kimura
Foundry America, with an S-Max at the company’s facility in
Shelbyville, Indiana. (Photo: Business Wire)
ExOne, which was acquired by Desktop Metal in late 2021, is the
leading digital sand printing solution provider for foundries.
The Kimura Foundry Group fully embraces additive manufacturing
as the cornerstone of the next industrial revolution. In the first
five years after investing in its first ExOne sand binder jetting
machines in 2013, Kimura’s revenue increased more than 500 percent
as a result of the speed and design freedom the new system provided
to end customers.
To deliver rapid casting solutions for R&D prototypes and
aftermarket parts, Kimura successfully launched its Direct Molding
Process with six ExOne binder jetting systems across several
facilities in Japan. The company expanded globally, establishing
Kimura Foundry America in 2018 and building a new foundry in
Shelbyville, Indiana around the ExOne sand binder jetting
process.
Traditional casting processes require waiting almost 40 days for
tooling. Today, with the ability to offer end-to-end rapid
prototyping in-house, Kimura 3D prints molds and cores in patented
ceramic sand and can produce prototype castings within five
days.
A new S-Max system set to be installed this year will be the
third S-Max platform printer in the U.S. and the 10th ExOne sand
binder jetting system for the company globally. For production
flexibility, Kimura Foundry America also owns an ExOne S-Print®
with phenolic binder to process specialty castings with
high-temperature alloys.
“When we started with this technology, we researched digital
sand casting printers from around the world and chose ExOne for
their high-end technology that delivered top-quality prints,” said
Dr. Yoya Fukuda, President of Kimura Foundry America.
“We are honored that Kimura, a foundry company with such
high-quality standards, continues to make us their choice for
digital casting solutions,” said Ric Fulop, Co-Founder and CEO of
Desktop Metal. “Kimura Foundry Group is truly leading the way in
production use of additive manufacturing, and they are an important
partner in our mission to demonstrate the benefits of Additive
Manufacturing 2.0 across all industries.”
S-Max Binder Jet 3D Printing
ExOne digital casting solutions have leveraged proprietary sand
binder jetting technology to successfully create metalcasting
tooling for more than twenty years. The S-Max platform, which
delivers high quality and speeds for batch and serial production,
has been trusted by foundries for over a decade. 3D printing sand
molds and cores straight from CAD files enables foundries like
Kimura to eliminate months-long lead times and high costs of
traditional sand casting tooling. The design freedom of additive
manufacturing also enables the production of innovative parts with
complex, consolidated geometries for lightweighting and optimized
part performance not possible with traditional processes. 3D
printing complex cores as one part also eliminates the assembly of
multiple components with traditionally produced cores, which is
time consuming, labor intensive and often results in scrap and
quality challenges.
ExOne will be displaying the benefits of its digital casting
solutions for foundry core and mold production at North America's
largest metalcasting event, CastExpo in Columbus, Ohio, April
23-26. To learn more about the ExOne S-Max, visit
www.exone.com/sand.
About Kimura Foundry Group
Headquartered in Shimizu-cho, Japan, Kimura Foundry Group is one
of the largest independent full-service manufacturers of iron,
steel, and specialty alloy castings. Founded in 1927, the company
has been owned and operated by four successive generations of the
Kimura family. Today, Kimura employs more than 900 people at ten
facilities in Japan and the United States and serves the
automotive, construction machinery, pump, and industrial equipment
industries with high-precision castings.
About Desktop Metal
Desktop Metal, Inc., based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is
accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with an expansive
portfolio of 3D printing solutions, from rapid prototyping to mass
production. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing,
metallurgy, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet
challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make additive
manufacturing an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers
around the world. Desktop Metal was selected as one of the world’s
30 most promising Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum,
named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Smartest Companies, and
the 2021 winner of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award in
materials and Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech Award for
sustainability. For more information, visit
www.desktopmetal.com.
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