The German branch of the US specialist “Protolabs’ has been producing in the Putzbrunn industrial area for two and a half years. On 7,000 square meters, 180 employees produce over 440,000 parts a year.
Made of metal and plastic, prototypes and small series, from skull bones or knee joints to circuit boards, house models, works of art, jewelry and rocket nozzles for Space X. In the center of the three-story building on Hermann-Oberth-Straße there are 67 3D printing machines; Each costs between 250,000 and 1.5 million euros and they cannot tolerate any temperature fluctuations. Each printed part must be reworked by hand after cooling and removing the powder and separating the large blocks.. High-tech and “top secret” parts are manufactured: jewelry, watches, rocket nozzle elements, circuit boards and fuel cells for geothermal drilling heads.. A large part of the medical technology sector is manufactured in extreme demand, which are in demand nationwide.