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custom prototype part

Prototyping

  • Iterate part designs quickly
  • Validate designs with functional parts
  • Accelerate speed to market

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on-demand production parts

Production

  • Manage demand volatility
  • Reduce total cost of ownership
  • Leverage cost-effective bridge tooling

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DMLS copper Protolabs

3D Printed Copper CuNi2SiCr

3D printed copper parts open up a huge number of opportunities for design engineers. Until now if you wanted to prototype or produce a copper part then your most likely option was CNC machining.
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Protolabs CNC Surface finishing

CNC Surface finishing

Durable and decorative surface treatment for aluminium parts.
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Inspection services at Protolabs

Measurement and Inspection Services

For parts produced here at Protolabs, we offer a number of measurement and inspection services , ranging from part approval quality documentation to detailed dimensional inspection reports. Turnaround time for each process varies and is dependant on factors like part complexity and quantity.
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Protolabs DMLS

Inconel 718: A superalloy with enduring relevance

Metal 3D printing has brought Inconel, the classic nickel-based heat resistant alloy, well and truly into the 21st century
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MicroFine Green™

MicroFine Green™

Now for the first time if you need micro resolution parts with details as fine as 0.07mm you can prototype your designs using Stereolithography 3D printing. With our new proprietary MicroFine Green™ material and our optimised and unique equipment this is now readily available, often in just a day.
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PolyJet & 3D Printed Silicone

Introducing PolyJet & 3D Printed Silicone!

PolyJet is an industrial 3D printing process that builds multi-material prototypes with flexible features and complex parts with intricate geometries in as fast as 1 day.
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thermoplastic injection moulding

On-Demand Production

We not only create custom prototypes extremely fast, we also provide a cost-effective way to manufacture on-demand, and end-use parts. See how rapid manufacturing can be used for low-volume production, bridge tooling, supply chain emergencies and more.
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Resources

DMLS Copper Protolabs
Blog

Making the Impossible Possible – Copper 3D Printing

Until recently if wanted copper parts, your best option to get the part designed and produced quickly was CNC machining...
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The DMLS process
Design Tip

How Metal 3D Printing is Redefining Part Design

Direct metal laser sintering brings unprecedented freedom to those willing to rethink traditional part design.
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Microfine green part
Blog

3D Printing Micro Features with MicroFine Green

Most parts can be built in normal resolution, but for parts with fine features around 0.1mm, high resolution may be required.
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hemosonics cad sketch of medical device manufactured by protolabs
Case Study

Manufacturing Helps Medtech Innovator Improve Patient Outcomes While Reducing Costs

HemoSonics used 3D printing, CNC machining, and injection moulding to quickly develop blood analysis machine
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We're turning 20! Thanks for getting us here.

 

Time flies! It has been two decades since we launched our small manufacturing startup with a single injection moulding press and CNC machine. Since then we’ve grown into a digital manufacturing company with facilities across three continents that house more than 1,000 machines, presses, and printers. In 2018 alone we shipped more than 47 million parts! Thank you for partnering with us over the years to push product innovation into the future. We can't wait to see what the next 20 years holds.

 

A Brand Evolution

 


"Protolabs has set up an unprecedented process that not only allowed me to take a concept to completion in a very short time, but the way they have automated everything turned out to be surprisingly helpful."

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