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Please send me information about XJet solution and forthcoming XJet event via e-mail. Developing and delivering breakthrough technology and solution for the additives fabrication of ceramics and metals, XJet is the AM industrial theme. The XJet Carmel line of AM equipment allows the manufacture of metallic and ceramics parts with an unparalleled level of detail, finishing and precision.

The XJet NanoParticle Jetting AM System is now in use in the USA.

When I could jump to Ohio lightly, I would set out to visit the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI). YBI, America Makes and Youngstown State University (YSU), the YBI, America Makes and YSU consortia own and operate AM system solutions from all seven recognised AM technologies, among them 3D System, EOS, ExOne, Markforged and Stratasys.

Zirconium oxide ceramics part 3-D printing on an XJet NanoParticle Jets system. Picture with friendly permission of XJet. XJet was established in 2005 and is based in Rehovot, Israel. XJet is manned by many of Objet Geometries' veteran engineers, the creators of PolyJet AM technologies (now held by Stratasys). Those humans know the subtleties of blasting fluid polymers of different density through thousand of micro-nozzles.

The XJet Group has transferred its inkjet printing know-how to fluid metal and ceramic dispersions to produce high detail end product for this latest project. The XJet company names its fluid dispersing method NanoParticle Jetting (NPJ): Its system uses 24 printing units, each with 512 jets, to blast fluid slurries of fixed nano particles into ultra-thin film.

The system prints in shifts of less than 10 Micron, depositing both building materials and removable substrates with the columns designed by the system softwares at each run (this movie shows a bird's perspective of this layered process). Details possible in ceramics parts 3-D imprinted on a XJet Carmel 1400 system.

Picture with friendly permission of XJet. Dror Danai, XJet CEO of Powderless, gave a speech at this year's Additive Manufacturing Users Group meeting titled "The Power of Powderless" in which he highlighted the benefits of his company's proprietary technologies versus powder-bed AM system (where parts are produced either by power lasers or electronic beams, or by the deposition of bonding material).

High-grade 3-D sheet metal part photographed on a XJet Carmel 1400 system. Picture with friendly permission of XJet. Currently, YBI's XJet Carmel system is built from zirconia ceramics nano-particle materials and its complimentary carrier materials; both are delivered in cartridge seals and fed into the machine. The XJet Carmel 1400 System, neu installiert im Youngstown Business Incubator in Youngstown OH.

This system uses a patented method known as NanoParticle Jetting for 3-D printing of ceramic and metal materials. Picture courtesy of Youngstown Business Incubator. YBI's Corey Patrick, YBI's Head of Communication and Market, says that if someone from outside the state wants to use the XJet system for an R&D effort, they could do so after the training.

"Or if you want to have something reprinted, our AM staff has devised a fee-based method where we can take care of the printing for you. "Patrick says they have a large listing of sevices and offers for anyone from individuals looking to get a prototyped product that will be completely printed as far as corporate entities looking for ways to decrease times, costs, weights, etc.".