Fluent Metal Brings Liquid Metal Printing to Life

Fluent Metal’s mission is to revolutionize metal additive manufacturing by offering cost-effective and reliable metal 3D printing technology, fostering innovation across industries.

Fluent Metal’s drop-on-demand approach is compatible with most metals, including refractories, and enables the creation of parts in a single-step process, minimizing variability. It’s energy efficient: Using less starting material and producing no waste, the process is more sustainable than current powder-based metal 3D printers.

Fluent Metal’s drop-on-demand approach is:

Metal additive manufacturers have come to accept the extensive industrial scale overhead required to operate this equipment safely. Fluent Metal is developing an alternative lean overhead process to make it more sustainable, operationally efficient, and functional, using an inkjet printer-like approach.

Operationally efficient: Fluent Metal’s approach is designed to operate safely on a typical manufacturing floor or even in a prototyping shop with no need for clean rooms or expensive safety measures. Additionally, material changeover is designed to be easy as plug and play, reducing setup efforts and allowing for higher machine uptimes.

“Drop-on-demand technology is an elegant approach to create complex metal components,” says Peter Schmitt, CEO. “Whether it’s prototype iterations of an idea or production runs of a single part, Fluent Metal will provide customers with great operational and material flexibility. This freedom will unlock new creativity and problem-solving abilities across industries.”

Fluent Metal is led by industry veterans from Desktop Metal, Vulcan Forms, and the MIT Media Lab. Visit www.fluentmetal.com to learn more about contract manufacturing and be the first to know about expanded product offerings.

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Sustainable: This approach produces no waste and uses less energy than powder-based technologies.

Functional: Using wire as the starting material and producing no waste, Fluent Metal enables true multimetal printing. It’s possible for even high-value metals to be intricately combined, creating properties never before possible. Complex shapes, such as fully enclosed voids and internal channels, are possible due to the inkjet-like print head and parallel throughput.

“As the manufacturing industry evolves in response to the changing needs of global supply chains and sustainability demands, we need novel approaches to drive creativity and expand our collective conception about what’s possible,” says Philip Liang, managing partner at E15. “In the near term, Fluent Metal will spark the imagination of designers, engineers, and technologists to consider how rapid, on-demand production of custom metal parts could transform their capabilities. At scale, this approach will revolutionize the entire footprint and direction of industrial manufacturing.”

(Fluent Metal: Cambridge, MA) — Fluent Metal is developing production-grade liquid metal printing to remove barriers to metal additive manufacturing while allowing for unmatched scalability and process tunability.

Fluent Metal is developing production-grade liquid metal printing technology for more functional, sustainable, and economical metal parts.