Disrupting Manufacturing With Laser Printing

Episode 114 of Cleaning Up was with James DeMuth , CEO of Seurat Technologies (a portfolio company of Capricorn Investment Group , the show’s lead supporter).

It was a delightful and informative conversation, which encompassed the following:

• The story of how the idea for Seurat Technologies as well as the lasers it uses came from James’s work at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (site of the recent breakthrough experimental milestone of more energy output from a fusion reaction than input);
• The different approaches to additive manufacturing, the natural trade-off involved between speed and precision, and how Seurat’s approach resolves them -?offering a pathway to produce large, precise metal components at a ‘holy grail’ price of $25/kg (about the price people would pay for a car were they to buy them by the kilogramme).
• How low-cost printing of metal components could replace the old, fossil-fuelled processes of casting and milling. But the technology goes much further: it opens up possibilities that could revolutionise manufacturing and construction in ways that are hard to predict - particularly as it could be done using glass or ceramics as well as metal.

You can listen to Episode 114 of Cleaning Up with James DeMuth on your favourite podcast platform, or watch it on YouTube .

Enjoy!