December 28, 2021
Wing is Massive’s first security customer. It manufactures building parts for drones and aircraft. Among its customers: IAI, Elbit and Rafael. Massive’s printer makes it possible to quickly produce casting molds for parts from composite materials
Pictured above: IAI train line. IAI is a major customer of Kanafit. Photo: Techtime
Massive company (Massivit) From Lod, which develops printers for printing large parts, reported this morning on the first customer from the defense industry: Kanafit (Kanfit) From the Tziporit industrial area in the Galilee. The company specializes in the production of parts from composites and metals for aircraft. Among its customers: Elbit, IAI, Rafael and the Air Force. Wing has purchased a “massive 10000” printer, which is designed for the production of large-scale molds for the production of parts from composite materials. The sale of the printer to the wing takes place as part of the early sale phase of the model, before the commercial launch planned for 2022. So far Massive has received about 14 orders for the 10000 model.
Massive Company was founded in 2013 by Gershon Miller, who is considered a highly regarded entrepreneur and technologist in the field of 3D and previously founded Idanit, a company that developed large-format digital printing machines, and later co-founded Objet, which was sold to Stratiss. Massive has developed a line of printers that are used to print large-volume parts and molds for the automotive, shipping, railroad, furniture, and advertising markets. The company’s printers enable fast printing of both prototypes and short production series.
The latest printer developed by Massivit 10000, is an alternative to a CNC machine and allows large-scale casting molds to be printed quickly for composites such as carbon fibers and fiberglass. Massive’s printer operates in a method called Cast In Motion. In this method, the printer builds using a single printhead, a hollow mold into which the industrial material of which the mold is composed is poured through a separate casting head. Additional materials such as wood, aluminum or various composites can also be poured into the printed mold. At the end of the printing, the object is immersed in ordinary tap water, and after a while the outer shell breaks on its own and separates from the inner body.
Today, building a mold can be a lengthy and expensive process that involves almost 20 different steps, while in a massive printer the same mold can be produced in just 4 steps and within a few days, instead of weeks. The company estimates the scope of potential markets to which it is addressing at about $ 75 billion. In July, Massive announced that it intends to expand its global deployment and open this month activity centers in Atlanta and Brussels for the U.S. and European markets. In the past year, the company has signed large distribution agreements with companies from Japan and Italy. Earlier this year, Dedi Perlmutter joined the company as an investor and board member.
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