Partnership forms to advance additive manufacturing in South Korea

Essentium, an innovator of industrial Additive Manufacturing (AM) solutions has partnered with South Korean 3D printing specialist, Hephzibah.

The collaboration will combine Hephzibah’s service, customer support, and use-case specific expertise with the speed and economics of Essentium’s High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D Printing Platform. By working together, the two organisations hope to resolve many of the historic barriers to widespread adoption of industrial-scale AM which exist within the South Korean market.

The Essentium and Hephzibah partnership will aim to deliver AM solutions based on open ecosystems that produce parts with the strength, speed, and scale customarily associated with injection moulding and with vastly improved economics.

Blake Teipel, CEO and co-founder of Essentium, said: “The South Korea manufacturing industry - from automotive to consumer electronics and, more recently, aerospace - has a best-in-world reputation for quality and innovation. The integration of industrial-scale AM onto the factory floors of this manufacturing powerhouse has hugely exciting potential. I have no doubt that the combination of the Essentium 3D Printing Platform with Hephzibah’s rich customer knowledge and service infrastructure will ensure AM makes its mark in South Korea.”

Joseph M.G. Lee, president and CEO of Hephzibah, added: “The speed, scale, and economics of the Essentium HSE 3D Printing Platform present huge efficiencies and improved time-to-market opportunities for our customers. The fact that Essentium is an open platform means that our customers will benefit from greater innovation agility.”

As a result of this announcement, Hephzibah will offer the complete Essentium HSE 180•S Series, including low temperature, standard, and high-temperature models, that produce end-use parts 5-15x faster and 5x more accurately than conventional Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF). The company will also offer a complete range of Essentium’s innovative materials to meet the diverse and complex demands of manufacturing applications.