XJet appoints 3D-Werk Black Forest as value added reseller

XJet has announced a strategic collaboration with 3D-Werk Black Forest GmbH, giving manufacturers in Germany a new route to evaluate and adopt XJet’s ceramic and metal NanoParticle Jetting technology through a partner with deep application expertise, hands-on demonstration capability, and end to end customer support.

3D-Werk brings more than 20 years of additive manufacturing (AM) experience to the partnership and will serve as a value added reseller (VAR) for the Carmel system family.

XJet has been active in the German market for a number of years, with an established customer base and extensive network in the region. The appointment of 3D-Werk as a VAR marks a strategic step to deepen that presence, pairing its differentiated technology with a partner whose consultative depth, multi-technology portfolio is renowned in the German AM market.

As a value added reseller, 3D-Werk will represent the manufcaturer’s full Carmel system line up – not as a standalone hardware, software and consumables supplier, but as part of an integrated solution that includes configuration, application development, workflow guidance, training, and ongoing support. This solution oriented customer service model reflects 3D-Werk’s consultative approach and ensures manufacturers adopting premium ceramic and metal NPJ systems have the expert guidance needed to identify the right applications, accelerate adoption, and realise the full value of the technology.

3D-Werk operates across three complementary business pillars: machine and material sales across all major AM technologies for metal and polymer; a parts production service spanning prototyping, small series, and serial production with full post processing capability; and an experience centre where customers can evaluate every technology and process under operational conditions prior to committing to a purchase. This infrastructure positions it to give customers from the most demanding industry sectors a practical route from technology comparison and application validation through to production planning and long term support.

By adding XJet to its multi-technology portfolio, 3D-Werk extends its capabilities into a more specialised class of industrial additive manufacturing. The NPJ technology opens manufacturing possibilities for parts and assemblies that have been too difficult, uneconomical, or impractical to produce using conventional manufacturing or other additive processes – addressing a well defined gap in the market. For customers in defence and aerospace, medical devices, and precision industrial applications and segments that require more sophisticated guidance, the collaboration provides access to a specialised ceramic and metal AM capability backed by the application knowledge, process expertise, and technical guidance.

‘3D-Werk has spent years building the expertise, the facilities, and the customer trust to help German industry make genuinely informed decisions about needed migration of production to additive manufacturing. XJet's NPJ technology represents something we have not been able to offer before – a path to manufacturing complex, high performance parts that were simply out of reach previously. Adding the Carmel system family to our portfolio and to our experience centre gives our customers access to a new category of manufacturing capability, and gives us the strongest possible argument for moving upmarket into the most technically demanding applications in Germany,’ said Gerhard Duda, CEO, 3D-Werk Black Forest GmbH.

Gilad Gans, chief business officer at XJet, added: ‘Germany is one of the most important markets for industrial additive manufacturing in the world, and we have been building our presence here for years. Appointing 3D-Werk as our VAR is the obvious next step – a competence centre with accumulated experience, a multi-technology portfolio, and a genuine understanding of what established industrial buyers need. This is not a distribution agreement. It is a strategic partnership that puts XJet's Carmel system family in the hands of exactly the kind of trusted advisor our technology requires.’