Admatec Additive Solutions has launched the Admaflex Discovery, a desktop ceramic 3D printer priced at $92,500 and aimed primarily at universities, with industrial users as a secondary market.
The Discovery borrows its core mechanics from Admatec’s existing ADMAFLEX 130 evolution system: the foil system, material recirculation, layer-to-layer control, and the Z-axis Zero Clamping system. What’s new is the form factor and the price point, which Admatec pitches as a “first budget” entry into technical ceramic additive manufacturing.
The machine takes an open-materials approach. Users can run Admatec’s own premixes or their own ceramic slurries, with alumina (Al2O3), silica (SiO2) and base resins for custom formulations all supported. Admatec says customers get full control over system settings to develop their own material and process parameters, which is the point for a research buyer rather than a production shop.
Admatec says the Discovery can be expanded into a “larger and more powerful form factor” that increases build volume, adds higher projection resolutions, and enables two resolution settings at once. After the upgrade it becomes a standalone machine rather than a networked satellite unit. Managing Director Michiel de Bruijcker framed it as insurance against outgrowing the investment. It’s the clearest pitch in the release: buy the cheap bench unit now, scale the same platform later instead of replacing it.
Admatec hasn’t published build volume, resolution or ship-date numbers for either version.
Control runs through a 7-inch integrated touchscreen or a full browser interface accessible from any PC or laptop on the same network, including over Wi-Fi, via the newly redesigned Admaflex software 3.0. Admatec is positioning the launch alongside a broader services package covering debinding, sintering, and application support, and will show the Discovery at Formnext this year.