Defense Procurement and Chinese Printers
If you were thinking about procuring machines like Bambu, Qidi, Creality, or any number of the cheap machines out of China it might be time to think twice. The recently published National Defense Authorization Act in section 849 states that the department of defense and contractors to it are prohibited from entering into contracts for additive manufacturing machines produced by ‘covered nations’ which effectively means China. For contractors the bill means that they must make clear that equipment isn’t supplied by nations like China. Beyond desktop FFF printers like Bambu, Qidi, Creality this also covers printers like UnionTech and Farsoon.
If this announcement has you thinking twice about what kind of equipment to procure or rebooting dormant equipment think Pivot AM. Pivot AM specializes in offering American-made refurbished 3D printers from 3D Systems and Stratasys. We also specialize in getting machines that you own back operational. If you have a Fortus machine sitting dormant and the recent bill has you needing or wanting to reboot it give Pivot a call.
