3D-Fuel has provided an update on their production restart progress.
The North Dakota-based company resurrected operations last year and now is the major producer of PCTG filament in North America. At the time of our last visit, they were just setting up a production line at their factory. Now, things seem to be quite different.
In a short video, company CEO John Schneider provided some interesting facts about their progress.
Mentioned:
- They now operate the production line 24×7, five days a week.
- They are setting up a second production line, which will also operate 24/7, five days a week.
- They now offer 38 different colours of PCTG, with more coming.
- They’ve introduced a matte black PCTG option, where the black colour comes from 5% carbon fibre (!).
- They are working to release some high-ratio carbon fibre PCTG filaments soon.
- They’ve released a number of print profiles for popular 3D printers, including those from Prusa, Creality, Bambu Lab, Anycubic and more.
Clearly, they have been quite busy in the ten months since we paid them a visit. But they’re apparently eager for even more work, as Schneider said they are interested to hear from customers about new colours and materials that are required. It seems that 3D-Fuel is ready to work with anyone to develop new materials.
This sounds very positive, especially hearing that the production lines are running 24/7. That indicates there is demand for their major product, PCTG.
I’m hoping that PCTG becomes more of a standard material for 3D printers: it’s a wonderful material to print. It’s strong, has far more thermal resistance than PLA and is as easy to print as PLA. Really, it should have been chosen instead of PLA as the default material years ago.
If you haven’t tried PCTG yet, what’s stopping you? 3D-Fuel has 38 colours available and all the print profiles you’d need.
Via 3D-Fuel
