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also striving to achieve their business such as packaging that can monitor itising environmental consciousness
objectives. product conditions during transporta- companies will need to adapt their

Future of industrial packaging tion and the utilisation of 3D printing packaging practices accordingly. This
for personalised packaging solutions. may involve incorporating materials
It is evident that technology will con- The possibilities are truly limitless. or implementing recycling programs
tinue to have a significant impact on aimed at reducing waste.
shaping the future of industrial packag- Another aspect we can expect to wit-
ing. We can anticipate advancements ness in the coming years is a focus on
sustainability. With consumers prior-

Mayku claims new custom mode helps deliver injection mould quality parts

moulding, such as high chemical re- and schedule an update meeting. With
sistance and optical clarity. It is used Mayku we can now make the change
across industries by companies includ- within a day, improving communica-
ing Oertli Instruments and industrial tion across departments, shortening
design studios such as Beta Design our design cycles and speeding up
Office, Morrama and Neoenta – and product development.” - Malte Heu-
works with hundreds of hard-to-print er from Oertli Instrumente AG
ayku, benchtop pressure form- thermoplastic materials, including “We used the Multiplier to create
Ming company has introduced PMMA, UHMW and Polypropylene. some optically clear, chemical resist-
their enhanced Multiplier Pressure Bridging the Gap Between Proto- ant parts for a batch of working pro-
Former, aiming to bring the precision typing and ProductionWhen used in totypes for The Lens Case (TLC).
of injection moulding to engineers' conjunction with high-resolution 3D We needed them fast in advance of a
benchtops for the first time. It now printers or CNC milling machines, the new product launch. The precision,
enables engineers and designers to Multiplier can scale up the production consistency and repeatability of the
capture sub-micron details, creat- of end-use parts, achieving the same machine combined with the speed at
ing isotropic prototypes and end-use accuracy level every time. Engineers which we were able to iterate on de-
parts within 2 to 30-minute cycles, can create complex production-grade signs helped us get to market on time.
saving time, money and materials. thermoplastic parts. They can now Without the Multiplier we would have
With its new custom mode, it is achieve sub-micron surface details. had to invest in tooling which would
claimed that users can now create and Multiplier-made parts can be pro- have significantly slowed down our
store custom profiles for any com- duced at a fraction of the time and development cycles.” - Lucy Williams,
patible thermo-formable material. cost typically required by outsourcing Morrama
Custom mode also helps increase ac- or alternative technologies. Amongst other applications, custom-
curacy by giving engineers extended “Our team has produced more than ers have used the new Multiplier to
control over the machine’s heat and 4,000 functional parts using the produce protective covers, product
pressure capacities. Mayku Multiplier with highly accurate casings, optical parts, replacement
The machine’s new reducing plate ac- features and dimensions necessary auto and robot parts, industrial food
cessory also simplifies material sourc- for our product design and develop- molds, and medical packaging.
ing and testing by condensing the ment. The consistency and repeat- “At Mayku, we believe in making
forming area down to a more widely ability of the machine combined with mass production accessible and are
available A4 or US letter format and the speed at which we can create proud to say that the Multiplier Pres-
extends the range of thicknesses from parts is groundbreaking for us and our sure Former is helping our customers
as low as 0.1 mm to more than 5mm. partners.” - Ziad Al Shamsie, CTO - achieve this,” said Benjamin Redford,
The company says that the Mayku Neoenta co-founder and chief product officer
Multiplier now produces consistent, “If product management requests a at Mayku. “It, quite literally, brings
repeatable parts with material prop- small change during a meeting, it used engineers and designers closer to the
erties typically reserved for injection to take three weeks to implement parts they create by combining the

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