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The company makes preforms weighing as little as 10.4 g and as much as 54.75 g, for bottles ranging in size from 300 to 2500 mL. It has an extensive array of molds, so investing in the XForm 500, with its ability to accept large molds from all the top suppliers makes a lot of sense, said Sipa.

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“Fast print speeds do not compromise on dimensional accuracy or surface finish,” Formlabs says in a release. The Form 4’s print quality is nearly indistinguishable from traditional manufacturing methods, such as injection molding, making it the ultimate 3D printer to maximize productivity, move production in-house, and enable users to take more design risks.”

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“The full compatibility of the Sipa XForm with our existing equipment is a great advantage for us,” says Dr. Hajrezapour, owner of Khosh Form. “This has given us extra versatility in our production. And the XForm 500 system produces high-quality preforms with high consistency. The machines have already proved to be very reliable, and we have quickly grown accustomed to the new platform.

The system is powered by a new print engine that uses a tech called LFD (Low Force Display) to cure the parts at higher speeds. That’s coupled with an increased build area, which allows users to print more small parts simultaneously.

Khosh Form has only recently come to Sipa. After it heard good things about the company from existing Sipa customers in the region, top executives had a close look at an XForm installation. They carried out a technical survey and set the system against its competitors. In a complete comparison, taking into consideration such critical factors as cycle times, running cost and initial investment, the XForm came out on top. Sipa has the extra advantage of being able to provide local service from technicians close by, another important selection criterion for Khosh Form.

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Khosh Form reportedly has been on a steep growth path since it started making PET preforms in 2003. Both sites have benefitted from surging demand for drinks bottled in PET, both at home and in neighbouring countries. It has connections to numerous major international brand owners.

Founded in 2011, Formlabs represents a rare prolonged success story in the world of desktop 3D printing. That’s due in no small part to the underlying stereolithography printing, which to that point, had been the domain of massive and wildly expensive industrial 3D printing.

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This month marks five years since the release of the Form 3, Formlabs’ last major 3D printer refresh. To celebrate the occasion, the MIT spinoff has unveiled the long-awaited Form 4. At the top of the notable features list are faster printing speeds (under two hours for most prints, per the company), a 30% build volume increase and a print resolution the company claims rivals injection molding.

Since then, the company has gone on to become a mainstay in the world of rapid prototyping. It has also increasingly pushed into the medical realm. In March 2020, for instance, systems were deployed to print out nasal swabs for COVID-19 testing. Dental has been an important market for the company, as well, owing to the level of customization offered by additive manufacturing.

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Iran’s largest producer of PET preforms is banking on Italy’s Sipa (Vittorio Veneto), a provider of container manufacturing and filling technology, to achieve success in its latest round of expansion. Khosh Form has operations in the cities of Mashhad (Khosh Form Toos) and Qazvin (Khosh Form Caspian). In addition to 10 Husky molding machines, the company now has seven Sipa XForm 500 preform injection molding systems at both locations, all of them running 96-cavity molds. The XForm 500 systems produce preforms for carbonated soft drink and mineral water bottles, and 38-mm-neck dairy products. The XForm 500 has the capability to run legacy tooling, as well.

“With its latest technology, Sipa has made a big leap forward. We appreciate this, because at Khosh Form we look only for the best in class. Our customers own the most important international brands in the beverage business, and they audit our production regularly, so we cannot compromise on the quality of our equipment.”

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Fittingly, Formlabs says it was able to print 11 dental models in nine minutes and 130 dental crowns in just 20 minutes.

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