SLM report single sale worth €37m at formnext

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There was plenty of noise coming out of the metal additive manufacturing players yesterday on the opening day of formnext powered by tct. With the launch of GE's new platform, Additive Industries' new module, XJet's Carmel systems it would be easy to forget that although trade shows are a great place to launch technologies the main point is to sell machinery. 

According to SLM Solutions, they've killed both those particular birds with one stone, and the celebrations could be heard long into the night as the Lübeck, Germany based company reported the sale of 20 machines to an Asian energy company. 

The sale is said to be in the region of €37m and includes 20 machines of the newly launched SLM 800 series and one SLM 280 machine. 

"Technological integration into production processes has succeeded with the SLM 800," said Uwe Bögershausen, board member of SLM Solutions Group AG, in a company press release. "The SLM 800 is very convincing for our industrial customers. We are very pleased that we have been able to get such impressive confirmation of our development steps on the first day of the fair. The machines from this order will be continuously delivered until the end of 2019."

Henner Schöneborn, board member of SLM Solutions Group AG, added: "We have reached another milestone towards automation of manufacturing processes with the SLM 800. Technologically, we want to become the market leader thanks to total manufacturing integration with both existing factory and production processes as well as Industry 4.0 connectivity over the next few years. In addition to the size of the construction chamber, outstanding component quality and our market-leading multi-laser technology are the convincing and proven parameters for our customers."

This sale is not the first time SLM has reported strong sales into Asia; back in September, the company reported the largest ever single order in its history with the sale of 50 SLM 280 machines into China.