Eco-friendly, biodegradable plastic derived from natural raw materials, typically agro-industrial waste from corn and sugar cane, from which starch is extracted, processed into lactic acid and lactide, and then into the final polymer.
Create a device that could do injections automatically. Prototypes are needed for testing before serial production of the device.
Printing with PLA was perfect for quickly prototyping parts that were then made on injection molding machines.
The quality of the print far exceeded the parts that were trial molded into a silicone mold. Rapid production of a pilot batch and testing helped bring the product to market faster. Product improvement continues.
“Work on the device has accelerated significantly with the printer. The main thing is that we got the opportunity to very quickly check the performance of the device nodes. We could redo the parts several times a day: test, change and print, try on the part and look again for the best solution.”