3D printer builder aims to make metal additive manufacturing ‘accessible’

The MPRINT + 3D printer is one module in the One Click Metal BOLDseries metal AM system.

The goal of German startup One Click Metal is to make metal 3D printing accessible to more manufacturers. The company, started and spun off by TRUMPF several years ago then acquired by machine tool builder INDEX in 2021, offers an LPBF (laser powder bed fusion) printing system.

“Our main focus is getting the technology out there and enabling as many people as possible, because [metal printing] is basically limited to aerospace, medical, and other industries where money basically doesn’t matter,” said the startup’s co-founder, Björn Ullmann.

One Click attempts to simplify customers’ entry into metal 3D printing by offering them a four-module package called BOLDseries:

• MPREP simplified data preparation, which is completed in four steps: load, place, and align part; generate and adjust supports; assign parameters; slice and upload layers to machine. (No additional software is required.)
• MONE remote monitoring and control system.
• MPRINT+ printer, which incorporates a 200-W fiber laser, cartridge-style powder system, 150- by 150- by 150-mm build volume, 45-micron focus diameter and galvo scanner, 3,000 mm/sec. scanning speed (max), and lab module.
• MPURE two-in-one unpacking and sieving station.

One Click Metal supplies the four middle modules of a metal 3D printing process chain.