3D log: # 2 How to make plastic for a 3D printer. REC production overview



Hello! Vasily Kiselev is with you and this is the second issue of my video blog about digital production. Today we will talk about consumables for 3D printing. With us are the founders of REC, the largest plastic manufacturer for 3D printing in Russia - Mikhail Shishkin and Nikita Gavrilov.





Just a couple of years ago, when choosing a filament for a 3D printer, you had to keep your ears open - it was easy to buy a poor quality thread, an uneven diameter, tangled in the coil, and it was just not clear what it was made of. A clogged nozzle, broken orders, equipment downtime is an incomplete list of the "joys" of using such a filament.



It is worth remembering that the nameless material of an unknown manufacturer could be made from anything. People who work with 3D printing and are constantly close to print printers unwittingly inhale it all and put their health at undue risk.

Times have changed. A company appeared in Russia that seriously started producing high-quality domestic plastics for 3D printing and became the largest filament manufacturer in the country.

Today we are visiting REC.

The REC company is almost five years old. A small team created during this time a high-grade filament production. It all started with two people - Nikita and Mikhail, but now in the REC more than a dozen employees.

The company produces eleven types of threads of twenty colors. On a monthly basis, REC ships more than four tons of branded plastic to Russian and foreign customers. We learn the same as they do it.

REC production was shown to us by one of the founders of the company and its technical director, Mikhail Shishkin.



Mikhail Shishkin says:

About the production of the filament

About the creation of the company

About the structure of the company

How much is the production line for the production of the filament

About the assortment

About the importance of plastic drying

On volumes of production

quality control

Nikita Gavrilov , CEO and a second founder of the company, answers the questions:



What is the «REC» - Company name

on competitors

about volumes

about the new producers

about complaints,

on cooperation with PICASO 3D

Useful Information

The exhibition Top 3D Expo You can view and touch the REC filament and printed products from it, ask questions to the company's employees and find out about new products.

Also on display are the KUKA industrial robot, the Bauman Racing Team car, the VR Concept virtual reality stand and much more.

Buy filament REC
Plastic Testing REC
Sign up for Top 3D Expo
Jobs at Top 3D Shop

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