Following a growing trend, German industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Concept Laser has announced that it has set up a dedicated subsidiary company in the United States. The company says that this move was taken to meet the increasing demand for its proprietary LaserCUSING systems in North America and to provide a regional structure that permits sales and service tasks to be overseen quickly and in the most efficient way for US customers. The new Concept Laser subsidiary is located in Dallas (Texas) and operates under the management of CEO, John Murray.
US markets are visibly now, developing dynamic strategies with regard to additive manufacturing. Headlines and activity are largely dominated by the aerospace sector, but that has long been the case. However, it has come far enough now that Concept Laser has gone on the record stating that it believes that the US aerospace sector is systematically calibrating its manufacturing strategies toward additive approaches like no other country in the world and sees that other dominant industry sectors, such as automotive and medical, are following suit. Concept Laser also attributes its move into the US to the high level of significance attributed to additive manufacturing by government and the increasing levels of investment in dedicated institutes. With an eye on the long term, Concept Laser wants to promote itself in a sustainable and professional manner even while demonstrating its technological expertise with metal additive manufacturing technologies, which is based on numerous patents.
According to the privately held, medium sized company, the new venture in the US was planned well in advance: when the US subsidiary was founded over 40 LaserCUSING systems had already been installed in the region. CEO John Murray believes that this status is in the company’s favour as it is not obliged to be listed on the stock exchange but instead can reinvest the revenue in fields of the future such as product development and R&D. In an interesting statement he differentiated his company by saying: “Concept Laser is driven by technology, not capital.”
在第一步之后，该公司预计美国业务的能力将进一步扩大，同时也看到其已建立的欧洲市场的增长。Concept Laser还希望同时加强中国的区域活动，并在其中设有设施，“为了确保三合会所有三个重要的工业区域中的客户的短途途径。”
Concept Laser GmbH总裁兼首席执行官Frank Herzog说：“由于我们的总部为欧洲市场服务，美国的新分支机构和中国成立的分支机构，我们现在活跃于世界各地的三个重要地区。”
