Question 1

Has the patent been granted? Applied for? Are you selling 3D printers or just items made with them? Who manufactures your 3D printers? Do these printers handle other materials besides plastic? Thanks.

Accepted Answer

Hi Grant, Yes the patent has been fully issued. Happened on Star Wars day which was fun!! No, we don't sell our machines and don't plan to anytime soon. We are building our own new high speed machines, and then we will be using them in-house in our own local microfactories to print parts/components for customers. So we will be building them in-house for the near term since we will be constantly improving our designs. But we have already talked with the same company that did contract manufactu...

Question 2

Would this be industrial focused only or would you generate 3D printers that might be used in residential and/or commercial real estate?

Accepted Answer

Hi Bret, Our technology is only intended to be used for printing high strength plastics right now. I assume by real estate you are talking about printing buildings? That isn't something we see as being a good use case for our machines. But printing components for HVAC and other systems in those building is definitely a possibility.

Question 3

How do you compare to R3 Printing, a 3d printing company thats been fund raising for a while?

Accepted Answer

Hi Simpson, That's a great question. Short answer is we are much bigger, faster, and we will use higher strength plastics. We are also focused only on providing on-demand production of larger size end use parts for our customers, as opposed to trying to sell machines. Our focus is also only on the industrial side. Specifically on meeting the needs of initial production runs or for on-demand printing of spare parts.

Question 4

Any thoughts on 3D printing with stronger materials than CF Nylon, CF PP etc as part of your growth and market expansion?

Accepted Answer

Hi Kirtson, Great question. Absolutely! Those are just the ones we will be focusing on first with our "low temp" machines. We fully intend to get into the higher temp materials like CF PEKK, CF PEEK, PSU, and Ultem once we have dialed in our hardware on the easy materials first. That said we do think CF Nylon will probably end up being our bread and butter material since it has an amazing combination of performance, printability, use cases, and reasonable material costs.

Question 5

Hi Riley, Is there anyway I can talk to you? Future investor with some great ideas that will help the company expand tremendously. Thank you.

Accepted Answer

Hi Grant. Sure! Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn.

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