FIT AG
FIT AG German HQ
The FIT AG team outside the new Lupburg facility.
German additive manufacturing (AM) company, FIT AG has inaugurated a new headquarters and manufacturing facility in its home nation.
FIT AG first outlined its plans to establish an AM-focussed facility in 2014. An investment of €20 million and over two years of hard work, the company announced the launch of the new base to partners on April 7th.
April 7th saw FIT AG welcome a host of associates and members of the public to not only showcase the company’s innovation, services and solutions as part of its 'Technology Day', but also to announce the opening of its new facility in Lupburg. The whole ground floor of which will be dedicated to metal additive manufacturing. FIT prides itself on its capacity for the additive manufacturing of metal parts, which it believes to be among the highest in the world.
The facility will also concentrate on producing plastic parts, with the first floor being dedicated to this specific segment. Meanwhile, the second floor of the facility will be used by FIT’s US employees. FIT AG has suggested that volume production of customised and identical parts will take place on the ground floor with metal materials, while one of the major applications on the first floor will be the manufacturing of prototypes for the automotive sector.
This new facility outlines FIT AG’s commitment to promoting additive manufacturing, highlighting it as a potential conventional production method. The company believes by concentrating all its efforts on driving AM technology forward, this goal can be achieved.
“We firmly believe that AM should be a mainstream tool in industrial manufacturing,” said Carl Fruth, founder and CEO of FIT AG. “Our goal is to create a digitised scalable factory and to develop standards for higher volume series metal AM. To get there, processes still have to be more stable, automated and cost-effective. That’s where we are putting all our energy and ambition every day.”
