High-precision & Mass Manufacturing in Metals: Additive Screen Printing
Exentis' additive manufacturing technology produces the tiniest details in metals such as stainless steel, quench and tempered steel, soft magnetic materials pure copper and many more. The technology is also capable of true mass production, meaning tens of tousands of parts in a single 8-hour shift.
Key advantages:
Million scale manufacturing
Micro-precision like never before, surface quality of 2 μm without post-processing
Integrated cooling structures with one single production step
Discover how our technology boosts performance, expands design possibilities, and reduces manufacturing costs.
Meet us at WorldPM / AMPM 2026 in Montreal
Do you want to learn more? We will be exhibiting at WorldPM 2026, June 25 - 29 in Montreal, Canada. This is the perfect opportunity to explore our technology in detail.
Applications manufactured with Exentis Additive Screen Printing
1 Tiny micro filter
2 Micro filters: 3.5 mm / bigger filters: 22 mm
4 Technical specifications
3 Mass manufactured filter (image: 22 mm filters)
Printed instead of a woven mesh: micro filter, stainless steel 316 L
Traditionally, filters were stamped from woven mesh, which often led to quality issues due to fraying. Additive screen printing technology has significantly improved these parts, allowing for the creation of filters with very fine structures and eliminating fraying altogether. Combined with the capability for mass production in large quantities, provides an invaluable advantage for our customers.
Added value using Exentis Technology:
Technical details:
Very fine structures can be realized
No fraying: better filter properties and quality
Manufacturing high quantities up to 5 million per year
1 Printed ceramic cooling part
2 Cooling parts during Additive Screen Printing
3 Various materials available: ceramics, metals such as steel, copper and many more
Thermal management: improved cooling structures
Manufacturing aluminum nitride with traditional technologies is expensive. Additionally, the design of channels within parts is limited.
With Exentis Additive Screen Printing, the customer gained the ability to optimize parts for performance in a way that was not possible before. Additive Screen Printing delivers full design freedom in X and Y axis. Furthermore, thinner walls up to 75 µm can be manufactured. Combined with more, denser channels, the performance of the cooling parts could be improved significantly at very attractive manufacturing costs.
Technical details:
Part height: 2.5 mm
Material: Aluminum nitride
Parts per screen: 15
Advantage: Attractive costs, design freedom
1 Tiniest channels in a printed ceramic part
2 Mass manufacturing: thousands of printed parts in a single 8-hour shift.
3 Printed ceramic filters
Micro-precision like never before
Look closer, this ceramic part contains a very large number of tiny channels. Exentis Additive Screen Printing Technology is redefining what’s possible in additive manufacturing. These structures can be incorporated into larger components with diameters up to 400 mm.
These ultra-fine structures enable a wide range of advanced applications such as flilters for precise fluid control and many more.
Why Additive Screen Printing Technology is ideal for Ceramics Manufacturing
Million-scale manufacturing
Production capacity of more than 5 million parts on a single additive manufacturing production system per year. High building rate of up to 10,000 cm3/h.
Benefit: Lower cost, scalability & reliability.
Micro-precision
Channel width from 125 μm, wall thicknesses from 75 μm, surface quality with roughness levels 2 μm without post-processing.
Benefit: Enabling ultra-fine details that were previously impossible to produce.
Free choice of materials
The technology delivers parts made of:
Stainless steel: 316L/1.4404
Quench & tempered steel: 42CrMo4/1.7225
Soft magnetic materials: FeSi0.5
Pure Copper, Cu ETP/2.0065
Aluminum Al6061/AlMg1SiCu/3.3214
and various other materials
Benefit: Maximum flexibility to optimize each component for performance, cost, and durability.
How 3D Screen Printing Works
Additive Screen Printing builds parts layer by layer using paste pushed through a screen onto a workpiece carrier. Only the material needed is applied, areas between parts are blocked on the screen by non-permeable fabric.
Layer thickness: 10–150 µm depending on part design and material. A short cycle time between 2–8 seconds and a high print volume of up to 10,000 cm³/h allows for large output.
The additive manufacturing technology is especially well suited to flatter parts with minimal z-axis variation. The z-axis is defined by the screen geometry.
Meet us at WorldPM, AMPM 2026 in Montreal, Canada
Meet us at WorldPM 2026 to explore how Additive Screen Printing enables micro-precise components with quality at scale.
How you can find us:
📅 June 25–29, 2026 📍 Montreal, Convention Center, Booth 425
🕜 Thursday, June 25: 6:00 am – 7:30 pm, Welcome Reception 🕜 Friday, June 26: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Exhibition 🕜 Saturday, June 27: 9:00 am – 6:30 pm, Exhibition 🕜 Sunday, June 28: 9:00 am – 2:30 pm, Exhibition
