Anisoprint launches ProM IS 500 industrial continuous fiber 3D printer

Anisoprint showed its newest product, the Anisoprint ProM IS 500 during Formnext. Now the company is officially announcing it as the first industrial 3D printer specifically designed to print high-temperature thermoplastics with continuous fiber reinforcement.
The new product is also based on Anisoprint’s patented Composite Fiber Co-extrusion (CFC) technology and represents another step towards the advent of the “anisoprinting era” — a new approach to manufacturing. The company sequentially develops its ideas on how manufacturing in the 21st century should look like, with products moving rapidly from the desktop to the factory floor. The Anisoprint ProM IS 500 takes this process to the next level from Anisoprint’s first product, the Composer, a desktop continuous fiber 3D printer, also based on CFC technology.
The Anisoprint ProM IS 500 will have up to 4 changeable print heads for printing composites and pure plastic. With them, it will be possible to reinforce different zones of the part with different composites (e.g. carbon/basalt) depending on the user’s goal. High-temperature plastics such as PEEK and PEI will be available as a matrix material for composites anisoprinted on ProM IS 500. That significantly expands applications of 3D printed parts bringing them in the areas of aggressive environments. The first ProM IS 500 systems are expected to ship at the end of 2020.