Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) Achieves Rapid Growth and Secures Key Personnel in its Mission to Provide Industrial AM Post-Processing Solutions

(Sheffield, U.K., 2nd May 2019) In terms of growth and adoption, these are exciting times in the additive manufacturing (AM) sector in general, but at Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) in particular.

Since it was founded in 2017, AMT has grown into a fully commercially-oriented company. These last two years were of pivotal importance and was used to "prove" the efficacy of AMT's technology through the setting up of strategic partnerships with numerous manufacturers across various key industry verticals. Today, there are machines and integrated automated systems in operation in North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom.

The company is now emerging from semi-stealth mode onto a fully commercial footing with aggressive growth forecasts, with the opening of new facilities in the United States, and the hiring of key personnel to realize the full market potential of its post-processing solutions across the world.

Today, AMT is also delighted to announce two new strategic additions to the Sheffield-based team at the company's Global Innovation Centre. First, the company has appointed a new Non-Executive Chairman, David Manley, who has had a wide-ranging career in engineering and management, having graduated with PhD from the University of Sheffield in gas turbine blade materials in conjunction with Rolls Royce. In the early 2000s Manley became Managing Director of Machine Works Limited, the developer of simulation software for the CAD/CAM and 3D Printing industry, and in 2006 he was part of the MBO team that acquired Machine Works and its sister company Light Work Design.

AMT is also pleased to announce that Gavin Minton will be joining the team as Aftersales and Customer Experience Manager. Minton comes to AMT from Henkel where he was the Regional Equipment Engineer (3D Printing) and brings a wealth of experience of working with industry in the areas of additive manufacturing / 3D printing and adhesives. Minton is a strong operation professional with expertise in negotiation and technical support, which will be of huge importance in his customer-facing role at AMT.

Joseph Crabtree, CEO at AMT commented:" These are indeed exciting times at AMT as we aggressively market and sell our PostPro3D post-processing systems for AM parts having moved from the semi-stealth mode we have been operating in for a couple of years. We have been growing rapidly, but now we are moving to the next level — with our technology capabilities, our facilities and our brilliant team. We are really excited to welcome David and Gavin to AMT — they will be fundamental to our continued growth strategy."

Crabtree continued: "The post-processing step has long been the Achilles heel for AM as it moves to being a true mass manufacturing technology, and we are proud to offer our fully automated solution, which is already revolutionising the ways in which manufacturers integrate AM as a mass production tool. AMT is working in partnership with numerous OEMs, vendors and material suppliers to take the pain out of post-processing with an intelligent and collaborative approach, and we are scaling up production globally in order to share the progress we have made with our post-processing solutions. David and Gavin will join our team to provide key support in this mission."


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About AMT

Founded in 2017, AMT is based in the UK, with global reach through facilities in the US and mainland Europe; as well as collaborative partnerships across the world. The company is currently emerging out of stealth mode and into full production. AMT's technology is developed at the intersection of material science, chemistry, hardware engineering, robotics and machine learning. The vision is to deliver safe, sustainable and economically favorable industrialized additive manufacturing solutions that offer a real and viable alternative to traditional manufacturing.

The company now operates globally from a 26,000 sq. ft US headquarters in Austin, Texas, a UK Global Innovation Centre in Sheffield, and an extensive manufacturing facility in Veszprém, Hungary. There are also AMT partner demonstration facilities in the USA and Germany.

www.amtechnologies.com

Why Post Processing?

AMT exists in an area that is currently dominating discussions, research, and OEM focus when looking at the role of AM as a true production technology, namely post-processing. For many manufacturers across various industry sectors the cost and time of performing necessary post processing operations on AM parts before they are fit for purpose in end-use applications are often under-estimated, and this invariably sees them falling back onto the use of traditional manufacturing processes rather than adopting AM for key applications.

AMT fully recognizes the enormous potential for AM as a production technology. However, the company also understands that for manufacturers to be able to embrace its inherent advantages — namely the fact that it is agnostic to part complexity allowing the manufacture of unique geometries; has no set up tooling costs; and facilitates mass customization and personalization — fully automated, safe, sustainable, and digitally-connected post-processing solutions are vital to replace the need for manual, slow, and costly post-processing activities.

AMT's BLAST Process
BLAST is a physio-chemical performance- and aesthetics-enhancing process that can smooth a wide variety of thermoplastic polymers and is a non-line-of-sight process that can smooth surfaces and complex internal cavities of polymer 3D printed parts. The process is highly controllable, allowing reproducible results with no degradation of the mechanical properties of parts. The PostPro3D® hardware system is an automated post-processing solution that can achieve a surface quality equal to or better than injection moulding on parts printed using laser sintering, HP Multi Jet Fusion, high speed sintering, or fused deposition modeling technology.