As industrial 3D printer manufacturer EOS enters its 25 year in business, the company has moved its operations into a bigger, better facility in the Krailling Innovation Mile (KIM). In order to house an additional 300 employees, EOS is shifting to a 17,000 square-meter building.
CEO of EOS, Dr. Hans J. Langer, says of the Technology Customer Centre, “This new building represents a further milestone for EOS and is an expression of our company’s growth and success story over the last twenty-five years. We operate in a market that is highly dynamic and which offers a huge potential. In the past we almost exclusively served the area of Rapid Prototyping, whereas now, Additive Manufacturing enables industrial applications in series production. This new building gives us more space in which to grow, allowing EOS to continually adapt to new market conditions and customer segments. Moreover, the new customer centre gives us the spatial flexibility we need to allow us to jointly develop current and future application solutions in Additive Manufacturing together with our customers.”
The company’s COO, Christian Kirner, discusses the unique design of the building, located west of Munich, “With a floor space of 17,000m², the building is able to accommodate an additional 300 employees, while its design follows specific architectural, spatial and workplace concepts. The architectural concept renders the three key principles of the company’s business strategy – innovation, quality and sustainability – both visible and tangible. The facility operates on the basis of an integral, sustainable energy concept. In line with our corporate objectives, right from the start the emphasis was placed on the building’s functional and ecological efficiency. Both its construction and operation were conceived with all due consideration for the efficient use of resources and energy-efficient building. In this way, the EOS building concept already complies with the requirements of tomorrow – apt reflection of the nature of the technology offered by EOS.”
EOS is an established part of 3D printing history and the celebration of their 25th anniversary with a new facility symbolizes the maturity of the industry. Terry Wohlers, of Wohlers Associates and the industry’s leading Wohlers Report, put the announcement in context aptly by saying, “EOS has played an important role in the history of Additive Manufacturing and industrial 3D printing worldwide. Without the company, the landscape of the industry would be much different today. We expect laser sintering to serve a wide spectrum of organizations in the future, especially as they uncover the vast potential of the technology.”
And as a drunk relative put it to me on my 25th birthday, “Just 75 years to go ’til you’re 100.”
