UK-based post-processing specialistAdditive Manufacturing Technologies（AMT）宣布完成了520万美元的A系列资金回合。回合由DSM Venturing, the venture capital arm of global material producer皇家帝,远见威廉姆斯技术EIS基金, an enterprise investment scheme formed by private equity firmForesight Group LLP（远见），以及Williams Advanced Engineering。
AMT will use the newly raised $5.2 million funding to commercialize its post-processing technology.
AMT首席执行官Joseph Crabtree说：“我们很高兴宣布我们的系列资金回合。”“这项投资是加速AMT对综合数字制造系统的愿景的又一重要一步，该系统将为任何工业最终用户制造过程提供端到端的解决方案。”
“我们期待使AMT成为自动化后处理技术的世界领导者。”
AMT的Postpro3D技术
AMT成立于2017年，制造自动化post-processing systems for 3D printed parts。它的总部位于谢菲尔德，设有匈牙利的制造工厂，德克萨斯州奥斯汀的北美总部计划于2019年第四季度开业。The company claims that a significant amount of manufacturing costs in 3D printing can be attributed to the highly manual steps of post-processing. This involves the laborious process of cleaning and polishing a part after it has been 3D printed.
AMT的后处理系统旨在“解锁3D打印用于大量生产”，旨在帮助客户自动化其制造业工作流程。它的技术以专有方法为中心Boundary Layer Automated Smoothing Technology（爆炸），在University of Sheffield’Advanced Additive Manufacturing(AdAM) Centre.
该公司的第一个商业系统，Postpro3d, was launched in September 2018. Certified by third party regulatory bodies, the PostPro3D is able to finish 3D printed components into a sealed and smoothed part suitable for end use applications using BLAST technology. AMT claims the quality of the parts matches those使用注射成型产生。PostPro3D兼容不同的us polymer 3D printing technologies such as powder bed fusion,HP Multi Jet Fusion，高速烧结和FDM/FFF。
AtRAPID + TCT 2019in May, AMT also unveiled two new automated post-processing systems, thePostpro3dcolorandPostpro3dmini。The PostPro3DColor system, along with smoothing 3D printed parts, is also capable of coloring them in a single step. PostPro3DMini, on the other hand, is a smaller version of the original PostPro3D with a process chamber of 300 x 350 x 300 mm.
Commercializing post-processing technology
AMT’s Series A round follows a£624,000（$ 782,000）赠款from the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board英国创新in 2017. Furthermore, the company has previously received seed investment by Midwest Additive Ventures and NPIF-Mercia Equity Finance through Mercia Asset Management PLC.
使用新资金，AMT计划加快其后处理系统的销售。它还旨在提供其数字制造系统的商业版本，该系统旨在成为完全集成的后处理解决方案。数字制造系统使用去色，表面修饰和着色来自动化每个手动后处理步骤。
DSM Venturing董事总经理Pieter Wolters在评论投资时说：“ AMT正在彻底改变3D印刷零件后处理后处理的世界，从而使增材制造成为工业规模生产的竞争替代品。我们很高兴将AMT包括在我们的增材制造投资组合中，并支持该公司加速其增长。”
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Featured image shows parts 3D printed with EOS PA2200, post processed on the PostPro3D. Photo via Additive Manufacturing Technologies.
