Sustainability
Plastic is worthful!
In both the B2B and B2C sectors, 3D printing generates waste that cannot be recycled without an additional thermal process.
Remelting and cooling the material to produce new filaments requires a significant amount of energy and often results in a loss of material purity as well as valuable certifications.
Once production waste has been shredded and screened, the sorted plastic can be fed directly back into a 3D printer fitted with the FLIPoQ LMGE retrofit. There is no need for a second thermal process, meaning new components can be printed efficiently and recycled again, and again.
IN-house Upcycling
Why powder 3D printing?
The most widely used industrial 3D printing process for polymers – Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) – generates hundreds of tonnes of valuable waste material every year.
Global companies have often developed their own solutions to recycle this valuable
recycle their waste powder – smaller companies and service providers cannot carry out the complex processing themselves and therefore sell it on
at a loss on the market.
But those days are over – from now on, FLIPoQ offers all these customers worldwide the opportunity to use in-house upcycling to transform the powder into high-quality 3D-printed parts within their own premises and to process these through the standard
SLS post-processing methods, such as chemical smoothing and painting, to create fully-fledged polyamide 12 components – please enquire whether we can also support your sustainable initiatives with our technology.