Primarily based on the worldwide rising demand for its NanoOne sequence of 2PP 3D printers, UpNano GmbH, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, seems again on an especially profitable yr with a 57% enhance in turnover. Clients in business and academia on 5 continents now profit from the quickest high-resolution 2PP 3D printer accessible. In parallel with assembly this demand, the corporate continued to launch revolutionary options and new supplies for 2PP 3D printing.
These improvements have been pushed by particular buyer necessities and met with the excessive flexibility that has change into the hallmark of UpNano. Because of rising wants and the expansion of the innovation pipeline, the corporate’s services within the EU and USA have been expanded and new workers was employed. This places the corporate in a novel place to serve the worldwide 2PP 3D-printing market, which more and more requires high-speed, high-precision industrial manufacturing.
For a lot of firms, 2023 was an exceptionally difficult yr. Few, nonetheless, have needed to face challenges as lucky as UpNano’s: assembly an exceptionally rising demand for its modern 2PP 3D printers whereas introducing revolutionary printing options and new supplies eagerly anticipated by prospects in business and academia alike, and increasing the corporate’s services within the EU and the US. International demand for the innovation chief’s soon-to-be prolonged NanoOne printer sequence – the quickest high-definition 2PP 3D printer available on the market – has resulted in a 57% turnover enhance, tripling the variety of machines lively within the US, and prospects on 5 continents – all achieved via a robust sense of innovation and buyer collaboration.
Bernhard Küenburg, CEO of UpNano commented: “The aggressive setting within the 2PP 3D-printing market is rising yearly. We’re extraordinarily proud that our NanoOne sequence of compact desktop printing techniques continues to remain forward of the group. It stays the quickest high-resolution 3D printer available on the market, able to printing over an unprecedented fifteen orders of magnitude. These are specs that an increasing number of firms and establishments worldwide are demanding. We proceed to study from these wants and stay dedicated to offering our prospects with personalized and versatile options.”
In 2023 this dedication resulted within the introduction of Hydrotech INX U200 (co-developed with supplies specialist BIO INX), a bio-ink that enables an extra layer of complexity to be added to a bioprinted assemble by combining it with different biocompatible supplies corresponding to Hydrobio INX U200, which affords cell interactivity. One other UpNano spotlight in 2023 was the launch of the most recent software program improve for all NanoOne printers. This provides the aptitude for sensible stitching, which might enhance the standard of the ultimate product and additional enhance the already excessive printing velocity. As well as, a number of utterly totally different print jobs can now be mixed into one utilizing the identical lens and materials, saving prices and manufacturing time.
“Assembly the ever-increasing demand and bringing the most recent developments from our R&D division to market whereas increasing our services in Vienna and Boston, USA has been difficult,” displays Denise Hirner, COO of UpNano, “however elevated gross sales and the persevering with assist and confidence of all our traders have allowed us to focus totally on assembly these challenges with the best doable high quality.” Equally necessary to UpNano is to assist the data change with NanoOne prospects and amongst them on a scientific but in addition sensible degree. Due to this fact, everybody who owns a NanoOne printer shall be invited to the headquarters in Vienna once more this yr for the annual “UpNano Buyer Occasion” in June. Right here they’ll expertise all merchandise and new developments, the brand new clear room and an extra analytical lab with state-of-the-art gear for materials and half evaluation. They may even change with the rising variety of UpNano consultants, together with skilled supplies consultants from world wide and use the chance to work together with different machine prospects working in numerous fields. Final yr there have been guests from all around the world, from the west coast of the USA to Australia. “Along with increasing our services on the headquarters, we’ve additionally expanded our services in Boston, USA,” provides Bernhard Küenburg. “This has change into crucial as curiosity within the NanoOne printers there has far exceeded our expectations. We now have tripled the variety of models offered in a single yr, and we proceed to satisfy all incoming requests.”
Confronted with the rising demand for top velocity and excessive precision for industrial manufacturing, UpNano additionally initiated a market analysis examine in 2023. Specializing in the US market, the analysis recognized a number of areas of explicit curiosity to UpNano, as many unmet wants will be addressed by micro 3D printing. These embrace microfluidics, warmth exchangers, the complete semiconductor business, and implantable gadgets, particularly in interventional cardiology.
All in all, UpNano is ready for an additional profitable yr. A yr that may even see the launch of latest supplies (to be showcased at SPIE. Photonics West 2024 and MD&M West, California, finish of the month), software program upgrades, and one other member of the extremely profitable NanoOne printer sequence.
