MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND 3D PRINTER

Zucchetti has acquired FABtotum, startup involved in 3D printing, by implementing a fusion of technologies and very different skills from each other. With the integration FABtotum aims to develop a new revolt at professional printers.

It was a fusion of skills and very different technological solutions. The operation led Zucchetti to acquire last May a majority stake in FABtotum, Milan startup, founded in 2013, it is specialized in the field of 3D printing. For Zucchetti it was definitely a new important element of the diversification strategy. To bring the two companies, as well as the facilitating role played by the accelerator Eit Digital, the digital community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology which operates in Italy through the centers of Trento and Milan, it was the red thread of innovation.

The first goal of Milan’s startup was to produce and ship to market 1,400 desktop-class printers and it has been successfully achieved thanks to the approximately $ 600,000 collected on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, this amount has never been collected by any European startup until 2013, which allowed the young company to start its work, and they can focus on long-term projects and ideas.

Now the aim is to develop a new machine for 3D printing primarily targeted to professionals and enhancing the market penetration both in Italy and in markets such as Germany and the United States. In the viewfinder, there is in particular the ecosystem of Italian SMEs: it will provide a machine for additive manufacture of objects using different materials, a solution with a milling and engraving functions for working wood, foam and aluminum or copper plates.

The operation will be synergistic, it was said, and the proof lies in the belief of FABtotum inventors who have found the ideal partner to sell a majority share in the company: a company able to offer functional capital to the development and production of the device.

Thanks to this operation, FABtotum, aims to strengthen the commercial point of view, particularly on the Italian market, while Zucchetti enters a booming industry with many demands on the foreign front.

Zucchetti, with this investment, aims to continue the international development: FABtotum, in fact, already has customers in some 64 countries.

Today we can say that FABtotum, by promising startup, is a successful Italian and European, that thanks to this agreement will continue to develop and grow.

Zucchetti and FABtotum represent two examples of Made in Italy innovation that, working together, can achieve excellence in the digital manufacturing market, both in Italy and abroad.

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