The company EMM offers its customers to print in 3D parts in small series (10 to 200 parts) to avoid the costly manufacture of a plastic injection mold. As Mr. Pisani (EMM’s CEO) tells us: “We allow manufacturers to test new products before the launch of molds, by putting on the market products made by 3D printing. The short deadlines, the quality of the printed parts as well as the chosen polymer allow to answer perfectly to the specifications requested by the customers. Also, we allow low-market products to exist thanks to 3D printing, which does not require any investment in molds.
In the first trials, the main polymer used was PLA. It was then replaced by Universal in order to increase the mechanical characteristics and to resist the strong temperature changes that the parts underwent during transport, especially by sea freight.
