Stratasys is furthering its funding within the UK additive manufacturing market with a brand new logistics facility that can allow sooner supply of 3D printers, supplies and providers.

Based mostly in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, the brand new 120,000 ft2 warehousing hub goals to develop the 3D printing pioneer’s attain to UK prospects with the advantage of customs-free buying and selling.

Yann Rageul, VP of Business Enablement at Stratasys, says: “The UK has turn into a extremely strategic territory for us, so it’s important that we’re nearer to the market by way of presence whereas additionally having the elevated versatility to enhance our total service providing. Reducing down lead instances is one in every of our primary objectives and having this state-of-the-art warehousing facility on UK soil will facilitate that.”

Stratasys claims the UK is already residence to greater than 3,000 of its industrial polymer 3D printers and has a large community of expertise suppliers together with Laser Strains, SYS Programs and Tri-Tech 3D. Now, with this extra native capability and deliberate funding in automation applied sciences, the corporate says UK prospects can have sooner entry to {hardware} and consumables equivalent to engineering-grade thermoplastics and resins.

Stratasys has made quite a lot of important investments within the UK market together with the commercialisation of Selective Absorption Fusion primarily based on a expertise invented by Professor Neil Hopkinson at Loughborough College and developed at Xaar, which Stratasys later acquired in 2021. That very same 12 months, the corporate acquired UK-based RPS and its large-format NEO stereolithography methods, which have been designed, developed and manufactured within the UK. Final November, Stratasys additionally made a 10 million USD funding in Belfast-based medical expertise startup Axial3D and its AI-powered software program which rapidly converts digital information equivalent to affected person MRI scans into 3D printable information.