On an unassuming road not far from the municipal airport in the city of Redmond, Oregon lies possibly one of the most advanced machine shops on the U.S. West Coast. Founded in 2013, i3DMFG specializes in metal additive manufacturing, 3D printing everything from aerospace parts to components for medical devices. It’s an EOS shop, equipped with more with more than a dozen metal 3D printers. Beside the EOS machines, i3DMFG also has a wire electrical discharge machine (EDM) and a CNC lathe with a robotic arm for post-processing.
Although many machine shops that start out with subtractive manufacturing eventually expand into additive, i3DMFG was focused on 3D printing from its inception. “We intentionally didn’t put CNC machine capabilities in-house until the demand for it was undeniable,” says CEO Erin Stone. “We wanted to stay focused on being experts in metal additive and we’ve been production-oriented throughout; we were never interested in being a prototype shop.”
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