Fusion Molding

"Ascend has developed new proprietary additive manufacturing technology called Fusion Molding. Think about printing in layers and not a single laser point. This technology is going to change how the industry manufactures plastic parts."
​ - Dr. Justin Nussbaum, Founder and CTO​

The Fusion Molding Difference 

​Print Faster 
Fusion Molding uses projectors to melt a large area of the power bed surface, rather than using small lasers or nozzles as other technologies do.

Quality Control
The in-situ vision and control system monitors the print process and adjusts projector intensity on an individual pixel basis. This ensures consistency in every part as well as a quality analysis report on every part. In-process parameter tracking ensures and proves a repeatable production process to validate part consistency. 

Printing Parallels 

The difference in Fusion Molding and traditional additive manufacturing is similar to drawing a circle with a single point, like with a pen, verses printing with a projector, like a copy machine.
​Now imagine this process over thousands of layers when 3D printing! 

Laser Sintering or FDM 

Fusion Molding