The Röchling Group has been shaping industry. Worldwide. For nearly 200 years. We transform the lives of people every day with our customized plastics: they reduce the weight of cars, make medication packaging more secure and improve industrial applications. Our workforce of around 11,500 people is located in the places where our customers are – in 90 locations in 25 countries. The Group’s three divisions generated joint annual sales of 2.352 billion euros in 2019.
The Röchling Direct Manufacturing Center (RDMC) offers cutting-edge additive manufacturing capabilities and competences which enable holistic and pioneering solutions which boost our customer‘s success in all industries around the world.
Industrial 3D printing is today enabling a whole new approach to design. Innovative results are produced by way of parts not previously possible with existing technologies, offering new options for the planning, design and construction of your components. As a leader in plastics processing technology, Röchling was involved at the early stages with additive layer manufacturing processes with which three-dimensional (3D) parts can be produced directly.
| Process: | Qualified plastic granulate is conditioned in a plasticizing screw and selectively dosed locally layer by layer with a piezo actuator. |
| Technology: | Arburg Plastic Freeforming |
| Material: | plastic (ABS, PC, TPE-u, PP, PLLA, ...) |
| Application area: | hard soft connection |
| Effective building volume: | 234 x 134 x 230 mm (XYZ) |
| Accuracy: | ± 0,1 mm |
| Layer thickness: | 0,2 mm |
| Process: | Liquid droplets are applied locally to a layer of polymer powder. Thereby the heat absorption of the material increases and an infrared source melts the material respectively. |
| Technology: | Multi Jet Fusion |
| Material: | plastic (PA12) |
| Application area: | complex functional components, prototypes, small batches |
| Effective building volume: | 380 x 284 x 350 mm (XYZ) |
| Accuracy: | ± 0,25 mm |
| Layer thickness: | 0,08 mm |
| Process: | Tiny droplets to viscous photopolymer are applied locally layer by layer and gets cured instantly by UV-light. |
| Technology: | Poly Jetting |
| Material: | plastic (PP, ABS-like) in colour |
| Application area: | complex functional components in colour |
| Effective building volume: | 490 x 390 x 200 mm (XYZ) |
| Accuracy: | ± 0,1 mm |
| Process: | A movable laser beam melts metal powder locally layer by layer to solidify the component. |
| Technology: | Selective Laser Melting |
| Material: | e.g. Tool-Steel and aluminium |
| Application area: | complex metal parts |
| Effective building volume: | Ø 300 x 400 mm |
| Accuracy: | ± 0,1 mm |
| Process: | A movable laser beam melts polymer powder locally layer by layer to solidify the component. |
| Technology: | Selective Laser Sintering |
| Material: | plastics (PA12) |
| Application area: | complex functional components, prototypes, small matches |
| Effective building volume: | 200 x 250 x 330 mm (XYZ) |
| Accuracy: | ± 0,2 mm |
| Process: | Plastic filament is plasticized in a nozzle unit and gets selectively dosed layer by layer. |
| Technology: | Fused Deposition Modeling |
| Material: | plastic (ASA, ABS,...) |
| Application area: | prototypes, viewing model |
| Effective building volume: | 355 x 305 x 305 mm (XYZ) |
| Accuracy: | ± 0,127 mm |
