Additive Manufacturing
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Merit3D will challenge these 100+ year manufacturing methods by making available quality, digitally manufactured products from additive, at a fraction of what people are used to paying for additive services today. We will be able to deliver thousands of products within days, without the excess inventory, wait times or design constraints. We are working on this for Dustless Technologies and we plan to scale it quickly and offer it as a service to other manufacturers.
Additive Manufacturing vs Traditional Injection Molding
Quality, Cost, Speed and Durability. We are creating strategies to be competitive in each of these areas.
Quality
Printed parts can be as strong, look as great and possess similar properties to traditional thermoplastics.
Scalability
Traditionally additive manufacturing has been hard to scale. New technology and overall costs coming down are making it much easier to scale today than even a few years ago.
Cost
Typically, traditional manufacturing costs per part will be less expensive at high volumes. However, additive manufacturing has many indirect cost benefits such as low volume printing, lower cost customization, less inventory on hand, US based manufacturing, lower shipping costs, and many others.
Speed
Once traditional manufacturing methods are set up, the speed per part is very rapid. Additive however can offer faster scale up times as well as faster change iterations. And the overall print manufacturing times continue to increase as better methods are developed.
Ongoing technological advancement in additive manufacturing continues to further increase quality, speed, and savings.

Examples of the types of projects we can manufacture

Small Polymer Manufacturing
Serving industries that normally would use injection molding less than 5″
- Medical devices
- Rubber components
- Outdoor hard goods
- Phone cases
- Prosthetics
- Consumer goods
- Injection Mold parts less than 5″, Nylon, ABS, PC2

Medium Polymer Manufacturing
10″ – 1M polymer prints
- Jigs and fixtures for DOD
- Military suppliers for radio protective cases
- Wind and solar jigs
- Carbon fiber large components
- Vacuums
- Any polymer component that is smaller than 1M
Benefits of Additive
Additive | Injection | |
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Ability to manufacture using a wide variety of materials | ||
Pricing with economies of scale | ||
Durable parts construction | ||
Competitive US based manufacturing | ||
Ability to make continuous improvement adjustments | ||
Cost competitive low volume production | ||
Optimized for just in time inventory management | ||
Ability to manufacture solid piece advanced geometric design |