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Metal printed cutlery for Gastrónoma 2022

· 1 min read · Samylabs

In November 2022 we were at Mediterránea Gastrónoma, in Valencia, with something unusual for our catalogue: cutlery made on an ALBA 300.

3D printed metal cutlery displayed on a light surface at the Mediterránea Gastrónoma fair
The pieces shown in Valencia, straight off an ALBA 300.

It was a privilege to take part in one of the sector's leading gastronomy events and to show what metal 3D printing can do outside the industrial floor.

It is also a useful reminder: the geometry that comes out of an LPBF machine does not have to be an aerospace component. It can be a fork whose shape could not be achieved by stamping, and that opens conversations with people who did not know this technology existed.

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Where the numbers work and where they do not, said plainly, in five parts you should not make by LPBF.

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