“Clients requested a way to make furniture and other large-scale objects from plastic waste, so we searched the market [for a] large-scale printer and everything we found was either too slow, too expensive, or could not work with high-temperature materials,” said Philippe Mérillet, co-founder of Colossus. Housed inside a shipping container, the Colossus has a build size of 2.67m x 1m x 1.5m equating to a volume of 4m³. Despite its size, the developers say that it is designed as a. transportable 3D printing system, presumably in the same vein as the mobile Fab Lab from the U.S. Marines. The Colossus FGM 3D printer print supports speeds of up to 15kg per hour from a granulate fed extruder and includes a dehumidification unit for improved print quality. According to the company, this printer is the first of its scale to use rPET, recycled PET, and rPP, recycled Polypropylene. Following the release of the first prototype, Colossus is now working to build and improve on the first 3D printer design to build a multi-head system, as well as a higher print output of up to 25kg per hour. Stay updated with the latest 3D printing news by subscribing to our 3D printing newsletter. Featured image shows the Colossus FGM 3D printer at Formnext.

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