Seurat, the startup that wants to commercialize its highly productive metal 3D printing technology, wants to go green. The company has developed a diode laser manufacturing process, dubbed Area Printing, that uses optical addressable light valves to scan and print an entire layer of metal powder bed in a single go. Seurat is not aiming to become an OEM that sells 3D printers. Located in Wilmington, Massachusetts, 10 miles from the Lowell mills that initiated the Industrial Revolution in the U.S., the first depot will be powered by wind and solar energy through delivered the Reading Municipal Light Department’s new Renewable Choice program. Seurat CEO James DeMuth then takes aim at ¨conventional casting, which represents about 20 percent of the $1 trillion worldwide metal part manufacturing market. Increased investment in depowdering technologies and the elimination of manual labor could, if implemented well, alter the fundamentally challenged economics of 3D printing services. In this case, for example, Seurat is announcing that its technology and its first depot will be 100% green energy powered.

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