Exentis’ exclusive Additive Screen Printing technology ‒ also known as 3D Screen Printing ‒ combines high precision with large-scale industrial production. It opens up new possibilities to manufacture applications made of steel, copper, technical ceramics, and various other materials. No matter if your focus is machinery, electronics, renewable energy, or other fields of application, this unique technology enables you to create parts like never before.
Additive Screen Printing: Enabling Micro-Precision & Million-Scale Manufacturing
Why Additive Screen Printing Technology Stands Out
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 technical ceramics, metals and metal alloys, graphite, custom and porous materials and many more.
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.
Additive screen printing applications and industries
Some of the industries and components already benefiting from Exentis’ Additive Screen Printing:
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Machinery & Equipment: Stator and rotors sheets for electric motors, cooling structures in a electrolyzer plate that filters hydrogen, printed micro filters used instead of woven mesh filters: filtering disel exhaust and ensuring a clean emission control fluid.
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Electronics Manufacturing: Cooling applications made of copper, sound transducers for headphones.
- Renewable Energy: Bipolar plates for fuel cells, components requiring precise flat geometry and high production volumes.
- Medical applications: ceramic feedthroughs for pace-makers.
Production systems for Additive Screen Printing
EX432i: High automation, up to 40 workpiece carriers, capable to produce more than 5 million parts on a production system per year.
EX431: Smaller production system for medium-scale series and developments.
How industry leaders benefit
Exentis technology is used worldwide and offers our customers significant advantages. For this reason, we cannot publish details in order to protect our customers.
However, there is one statement we're allowed to share: The CEO of a company in Germany operating in the energy sector says:
“We are using the EX432i Exentis production system. Thanks to the innovative 3D Screen Printing Technology, we have been able to optimize the shape of a part that is important for us. For the first time, we can integrate cooling channels with diameters of just a few micrometers into the part in one single production step. By purposefully optimizing the geometry, the part is now much thinner and lighter, far beyond what would have been possible using traditional technologies.
This gives us significant competitive advantages in the marketplace. We are very pleased with the results we have achieved and value our partnership with Exentis.“
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