3D printers in Russia

2024

3D printing of wood flour products launched in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, scientists have developed and implemented a device for 3D printing of products from a mixture of wood flour and polymer. This became known in mid-August 2024. The new technology, created by employees of the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (SPbGUPTD), has been successfully tested and is already being used at one of the city's factories. Read more here

Presented a Russian 3D printer that prints 4-story buildings

In July 2024, the Russian company AMT, a resident of the Skolkovo innovation center, developed and presented a new construction 3D printer S400, capable of printing buildings up to four floors high. The novelty is designed for the quick and accurate construction of large structures directly on the construction site. Read more here.

2023: The largest 3D printer in Russia created

In May 2023, the presentation of the largest 3D printer in Russia took place. It was developed by specialists from RuSat - Additive Technologies and St. Petersburg Marine Technical University. Read more here.

2022

3D pellet printer with largest printing area introduced

In mid-November 2022, the Russian company F2 Innovations (F2 Innovations) introduced a 3D pellet printer with the largest printing area. The product was named F2 Gigantry. Read more here.

A hybrid of 3D printer, laser and milling machines was created in Moscow

A hybrid of a 3D printer, laser and milling machines was created in Moscow, which became known at the end of October 2022. We are talking about a development called Unimorph from Moscow Polytechnic University. Read more here.

In Tyumen, developed a construction 3D printer for the construction of private houses and high-rise buildings

In early July 2022, it became known about the creation Russia construction of a 3D printer designed for the construction of private houses and high-rise buildings. This is a project of the Tyumen company Power sphere"." More. here

2021

The first domestic photopolymer 3D printer using LCD technology has been created

The first domestic photopolymer printer using LCD technology was developed at the Moscow Polytechnic. The university announced this to Zdrav.Expert on November 23, 2021. Read more here.

In Russia, created the technology of 3D printing of magnetic alloys

In Russia, they created a technology for 3D printing of magnetic alloys. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology told about its achievement at the end of October 2021. Scientists were able to overcome the limitation of 3D printing, when the object is made entirely from a homogeneous material or a homogeneous mixture.

As explained in Skoltech, if the composition changed from one part of the product to another, it would be possible to obtain a sample with constantly changing properties. For example, a rod made of an alloy of two metals with a variable ratio of components: at one point 100% of metal A, at the other - 50% of each metal, then 100% of metal B, etc., respectively, and the properties of the resulting material, including magnetic ones, can change gradient, which makes it potentially valuable for the manufacture of engine rotors, strips for magnetic coding devices, transformers, etc.

Technology of 3D printing of magnetic alloys presented in Skoltech

Skoltech received just such material. The initial components A and B were two alloys: aluminum bronze (copper, aluminum and iron) and austenitic stainless steel (iron, chromium and nickel, etc.). Both alloys are paramagnetic, that is, they are not attracted to the magnet. However, if you mix them, you get the so-called "soft magnetic material" ferromagnetique, which is attracted to permanent magnets.

According to the lead author of the study, Oleg Dubinin, an employee of the Skoltech Additive Production Laboratory, a gradient alloy was obtained from these two paramagnetic materials. For this purpose, an InssTek MX-1000 3D printer was used, which works on the principle of building up a material using a directed energy effect, that is, supplying a powdered material and simultaneously melting it using a laser. Ferromagnetic properties were observed in the resulting material of varying degrees depending on the ratio of components.

Leading researcher at Skoltech Stanislav Yevlashin also added that gradient alloys can be used in mechanical engineering, for example, in electric motors. In addition, he said, the results of the study show that directed energy superposition is not only a good method for 3D printing of gradient materials, but also a way to discover new alloys. The technology is also effective and suitable for the rapid manufacture of even large parts.^[1]

Serial 3D printing of spare parts for aircraft and helicopters begins in Russia

On October 7, 2021, Rostec announced the receipt of a license for the mass production of 3D printing of spare parts for aircraft and helicopters. We are talking about the first Russian enterprise, which thus confirmed the competence in mass industrial 3D printing in the interests of the aviation industry. Read more here.

Mishustin approved a strategy for the development of 3D printing technologies

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in mid-July 2021 approved a strategy of additive technologies for the period until 2030. According to the press service of the Cabinet, the main priorities outlined in the document were the strengthening of scientific and personnel potential, the improvement of the regulatory and legal framework, the activation of import substitution processes. Read more here.

2020: Mass production of German 3D printers Composer launched in Russia

On June 18, 2020, it announced the launch Russia of mass production, 3D printers Composer which were previously produced in. Germany Now the manufacturer of robotics and medical equipment TEN fab, part of the investment network of the group "," has taken up the assembly Infrastructure and Educational Programs Fund (FIOP) of equipment. Rusnano More. here

2018: Medvedev on the development of 3D printing in Russia

At a meeting on the digital transformation of the transport complex, which took place on November 23, 2018, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke about the development of 3D printing in Russia.

According to the prime minister, the Russian authorities are dealing with the development of industrial 3D printing in the country, but there are few such printers in the Russian Federation, so you have to purchase this equipment abroad, the Russian Information Agency reports TASS.

There are still some problems with the quality of the powder itself, which is used there. But we are doing this, "Medvedev said, adding that it is not only Skolkovo that deals with relevant issues - this is done" even for some defense needs. "

Dmitry Medvedev

The head of Aeroflot, Vitaly Savelyev, said that, in his opinion, too little attention is paid to the topic of 3D printing in aircraft construction in Russia. He noted that the world's largest manufacturers of aircraft equipment Airbus and Boeing print up to 12% of spare parts and components for aircraft on a 3D printer. Dmitry Medvedev responded to this.

Here you, Vitaly Gennadievich, are not quite right: we pay attention to this. Moreover, you simply do not attend all meetings - I even shone a separate meeting and a commission on modernization on 3D printing on printers for industrial needs, the head of government corrected.

According to estimates by the Wohlers Associates consulting company, which specializes in assessing the 3D printing market, sales of 3D printers in Russia in 2017 amounted to about 1 billion rubles. Many world leaders are represented in Russia, and, in addition, Russian manufacturers of 3D printers, of which at least a dozen, occupy serious positions. 

Earlier in 2018, Rostec announced the investment of 3 billion rubles in the development of industrial 3D printing in Russia.^[2]

See also

• 3D printers
• 3D printing in medicine
• 3D Printing in Medicine (Global Market)
• 3D Printers (Global Market)
• 3D Printing Projects
• AMT-Spetsavia
• Apis Cor
• Evolution of additive manufacturing technologies

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