We recently wrapped up an amazing weekend exhibiting at Maker Faire Hannover, and the response to The Metal 1.0 was phenomenal! We put the system through its paces, running the printer live on the exhibition floor across all three days without a single hitch.

Building industrial metal 3D printers requires serious space, not just for the machines themselves, but for receiving heavy components, calibration, and rigorous testing. To accommodate the production of our Kickstarter batch, I am incredibly excited to announce that Metal-Base has officially moved into a new headquarters!

We did it. The Kickstarter campaign for the Metal 1.0 has officially closed, and thanks to an incredible community of early adopters, we raised €136,542—hitting 267% of our funding goal!

One of the biggest lessons in developing a desktop LPBF metal printer is that your hardware is only as good as the raw materials you feed it. Lately, I’ve been focusing on improving the surface finish and overall reliability of our prints.

We have officially opened our Kickstarter Pre-Launch page. This is your first chance to follow the project and ensure you are notified the moment we go live in Q1 2026.

Lately I have been working on the printer settings for Inconel 718. I can happily report that it prints very well on the system.Measurements from tensile tests show that the material achieves a tensile strength of 900-950 N/mm2 when printing every layer at 0.05.When printing the infill every 0.1mm layers and the walls at the normal 0.05mm layers it achieves a tensile strength of 850-900N/mm2.The mayor advantage of the 0.1mm layer infill is that depending on the geometry it prints up to 40% faster.in the video shown the astronaut weighing about 200 gram took only 5 hours, the chess piece at 200 gram took 6 hours. this would be 7 and 9 hours with everything at 0.05mm layers.

The 4th and 5th beta systems have been delivered and are now also actively used. I have learned a lot from building, integrating and testing these machines and the feedback from the 5 beta customers is very helpful. I'm also preparing the design of the next batch of machines with all the things that were found in these systems. So far only minor things have been found and most of them are related to diagnostics and production.

Today the first beta system has been delivered in Breda the Netherlands. The installation went without much trouble and the test print performed as expected. In about another month the other 4 beta systems will be delivered.