These two high school friends turned a 3D printing hobby into a successful business.
By Lyndsey Vickers
“Things that are broken. Things that are not being produced anymore – we can 3D scan them, reverse engineer, and then reproduce them.”
And it’s hopefully at a lower cost and in a better material too!
Meet Lunia 3D – started with face shields during lockdown and a realisation that 3D printing could mass produce at speed and low cost. Today, they’re producing parts in quantities of thousands, offering injection-moulded quality through their HP 4200 MJF machine from Matsuura.
Lyndsey Vickers of MTDCNC visits Ken Pearce and Yousef Ahmed of Lunia 3D in Cardiff to hear how two lifelong friends went from FDM prototyping to full end-use production, and why taking control of their own powder printing process changed everything.
