There’s no doubt 3D printing is changing the way the advanced manufacturing sector develops and scales the things it needs to produce quickly and cheaply. However, efficiency and speed of production has plagued the industry’s progression into more commercially viable 3D printing.
Enter Gizmo 3D Printers Pty Ltd.
The Brisbane startup manufactures industrial resin 3D printers for printing large volumes of high-resolution products at ground-breaking speeds.
The company has been featured in news stories globally, and its printers are being recognised for their ground-breaking 3D printing speeds, which are only getting faster.
“We're excited to share that the fastest top-down SLA DLP 3D printers recently became even faster,” co-founder and marketing lead Michelle du Toit says.
In 2015 Kobus du Toit, a co-founder and the company’s CEO, purchased a $4,000 3D printer, which he found to be slow, unreliable and unpredictable. To combat his frustration Kobus took on the challenge to build a better model.
After posting a video online of his finished product in action the video went somewhat viral with 17,000 views in the first two weeks and an overwhelming amount of purchase inquiries from some of the biggest brand names around the world.
It was then that husband-and-wife team Kobus and Michelle learnt that their machine was the fastest resin 3D printer of its kind (top-down SLA DLP 3D printer) in the world.
With many industries relying on 3D printers to produce high volumes of 3D prints and a clear struggle to do so quickly and cost-effectively, companies are facing the problem that faster printers are expensive and cheaper ones are slow and limited in size. Additionally, many of the printers currently on the market require high maintenance costs and costly consumables.
Gizmo 3D Printers provides a solution to all of these problems by producing faster printing, easy and cost-effective maintenance, bigger prints at larger volumes and high-resolution results.
“The Gizmo 3D Printers print up to 33 times faster than the average resin 3D printer” Michelle says.
Launching on crowd-funding website Indiegogo in 2016, their campaign achieved 139% of its funding goal.
Looking forward they are open to further funding opportunities, which will allow them to grow their presence on both a national and international stage.
“With funding, we could do roadshows that will enable us to do live demonstrations of our printers and offer training in different cities,” Michelle says.
With the orthodontic industry showing the most interest in the Gizmo 3D printers the company is currently developing a printer that will significantly increase the productivity and reduce the costs for the printing of dental arches.
“The printer we are currently developing will enable them to produce up to 10,000 arches a month at a cost of just 90 cents per arch.”
