9T Labs Hardware
Exceptional quality tailored for serial production
Our Build and Fusion modules simplify high-volume part production, minimize scrap rates, ensure superior surface finishing, and optimize carbon fiber-reinforced polymer properties.
Our Build and Fusion modules simplify high-volume part production, minimize scrap rates, ensure superior surface finishing, and optimize carbon fiber-reinforced polymer properties.
Using the Build Module, we transform your designs into reality by precisely depositing continuous fibers and polymer materials in an automated process that is both accurate and repeatable, all while minimizing waste. Stay connected remotely to track progress and gain a comprehensive understanding of key production parameters.
The Fusion Module employs precise temperature and pressure control to greatly elevate part performance while ensuring consistency and superior surface finish. This method empowers you to tackle even the most demanding load scenarios, reshaping parts and achieving optimal 3D fiber orientation. Additionally, it provides the flexibility to co-consolidate continuous fiber preforms with recycled short fiber waste material.
Advanced compression molding is the key to unlocking the mechanical properties and design freedom of continuous fiber additively manufactured preforms. Introducing this step is the only way to reach consistency, high part quality, excellent consolidation, perfect surface finish, and low void content (less than 1%).
Advanced compression molding adds complexity to your design, allowing for out-of-plane fiber configurations, re-shaping of parts, and adding functional integration into your part in one step. Additionally, it provides the flexibility to co-consolidate continuous fiber preforms with recycled short fiber waste material.
Leverage the advantages of additive manufacturing in combination with compression molding to enhance the capabilities, precision, strength, and finishing of manufactured parts at scale.
Craft intricate patterns and complex geometries that traditional methods struggle to achieve. Additive Fusion Technology™ offers freedom in creating highly customized, optimized parts.
Maximize thermoplastic composite properties - strength, durability, and surface finish - with 9T Labs manufacturing methods. You can now create carbon fiber parts suited for the harshest environments.
Streamline and increase automation throughout the production process. Reduce waste and enable the creation of intricate parts in a more cost-effective and time-efficient manner.
Precisely lay continuous carbon fibers within a thermoplastic polymer matrix, creating parts with desired strength, stiffness, and hardness along predefined trajectories.
The Build Module accurately and automatically lays fiber (composite) tapes in multiple directions along the desired trajectories. Areas of a part that do not require continous fiber reinforcement are automatically filled with short fiber reinforced polymer.
Feedback-controlled motors ensure highest positioning accuracy and continuous process control.
Benefit from high z-direction bonding strength between the layers and ensure low moisture uptake
Maximise part quality and performance, by molding the printed parts, while at the same time reaching new geometries which otherwise would be impossible to create.
Craft complex 3D fiber structures by fusing individual sub-components and reshaping of parts.
Dramatically increase part performance at highest levels of repeatability and surface finish.
Convenient interface, facilitating connections to heating and cooling devices, along with sensors.
The combination of additive manufacturing (AM) of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) with metal molding is the only way to reach high reproducibility, high part quality (excellent consolidation, meaning state-of-the-art industrial interlaminar shear strength and low void content) and a competitive production cost structure required for high-volume series production (from 1'000 to 100'000 parts per annum). In addition the consolididation phase allows you to use recycled materials while preserving highest mechanical characteristics.
You're welcome to visit our facilities in Switzerland or Massachusetts (U.S.) to see our build and fusion module machines. With many machines worldwide, we can also connect you to a nearby partner or university for a firsthand look at 9T Labs machines. Just email us at info@9tlabs.com.
9T Labs is a technology provider, not a manufacturing company. That's why we print parts only within series production projects. Within these projects, it's our way of helping clients transition faster and launch their parts to the market quickly.
9T Labs machines typically manufacture parts up to 450x300 mm (17.7x11.8 inches) in size. In aerospace applications, we have successfully used a multiple print approach to produce larger parts. For more details on available sizes, please contact us at info@9tlabs.com.
If you place your order now, we'll deliver the equipment three months after the signature. Please be aware that we're experiencing a significant surge in demand for 9T Labs equipment. For an exact delivery date, please reach out to us at info@9tlabs.com.
