Montgomery County’s newest tech startup was launched on Thursday after scientists here have spent more than a decade designing what they say is a bigger and better 3D printer. MELD Manufacturing Corporation is a new subsidiary of 20-year-old tech firm Aeroprobe.
The company’s machine is similar to traditional 3D printers, but it creates metal components instead of plastic. And – more importantly – it does so without melting anything.
Instead, the machines produce large, industrial scale parts by using a combination of friction and pressure to get the metals hot enough to deform, but not hot enough to melt.
