The AMA: Energy 2025 conference has highlighted the growing role of ceramic 3D printing in energy. Nanoe presented its Zetamix platform, which allows standard FDM equipment to be used for manufacturing ceramic parts, reducing costs and entry barriers. This opens up new possibilities for components resistant to high temperatures and corrosive environments.
Zetamix: technical ceramics with conventional FDM printers 🔥
The Zetamix platform uses filaments composed of polymer and ceramic powder. After printing, the parts undergo debinding to remove the binder and then high-temperature sintering, obtaining dense components. Nanoe offers materials such as alumina, zirconia, silicon carbide, and technical metals, allowing energy manufacturers to produce parts with advanced mechanical and thermal properties without investments in specialized hardware.
Ceramics in your office printer? Almost, almost ⚙️
Now it turns out that with the same printer you use to make plastic parts for your keyboard, you can manufacture components for gas turbines. Of course, then you have to put the part in a furnace that looks like it came from a foundry. Nanoe has made technical ceramics almost as accessible as PLA filament. Almost. But hey, it's an advancement that will make energy engineers and those who hate changing machines every two projects happy.