The market for polymer 3D printing is rapidly growing, with reports that polymer powder consumption grew by 43.3% throughout 2021, overtaking photopolymer resins as the most used 3D printing material. As such, competition between industrial 3D printer OEMs is fiercer than ever, giving manufacturing firms ample choice with technologies such as High Speed Sintering (HSS), Multi Jet Fusion (MJF), and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS).
Originally invented by Neil Hopkinson at the University of Loughborough and Sylvia Monsheimer at Evonik at the same time in the early 2000s, HSS is a powder-based 3D printing process similar to binder jetting. It’s known for its fast print speeds and large part production capabilities. Since obtaining a license to commercialize the technology in 2016, voxeljet has developed its own version of HSS and launched its first HSS 3D printer back in 2017. The…
