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Help - 3D Printer for food manufacturing (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I work as a continuous improvement engineer and I've been discussing getting a 3D Printer for our shop here. Main applications would be:

Prototyping tools, jigs, parts, etc
Small custom parts for use on equipment

The main thing I'm struggling with is there's so much technology and brands now! I decided to reach out for more insight. The main requirements are essentially:

Food safe plastic OR Metal Detectable plastic (plastic with metal impregnated)

I would appreciate any help or direction!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So you've got a few main varieties of printing technology (detailed here). As for your requirements I'm not sure there's enough metal in the metallic filaments to trigger a metal detector, but this article should be a good starting point for you.