Exentis Closes $40.8M in Asian Additive Screen Printing Deals

Exentis, the Swiss industrial additive manufacturing company, has signed two framework agreements with new Asian customers covering 23 production systems worth a combined CHF 33 million, roughly $40.8 million. The deals are for high-volume production of consumer electronics components, and they follow a period of increasing industrial interest in additive manufacturing at scale.

Two Deals, Two Customers

The first agreement covers 15 Exentis production systems valued at approximately CHF 22 million, or $27.2 million. The second covers eight systems at roughly CHF 11 million, or $13.6 million. Both customers are new to Exentis, and both plan to use the systems for mass production of consumer electronics parts.

Winning two new customers in the same region within days of each other suggests that industrial buyers are actively building additive capacity rather than running pilot programs. Consumer electronics manufacturing has tight tolerances, short product cycles, and pressure to move from prototype to volume quickly. Those conditions make it a natural fit for additive processes that can handle production runs without the tooling costs of traditional manufacturing.

How Additive Screen Printing Works

Exentis uses a process it calls Additive Screen Printing. Material is deposited through screens in successive layers, building parts directly without the powder bed or laser systems that dominate most AM discussions. The company describes the approach as designed for high-volume production, where speed and repeatability matter more than the geometric complexity that motivates most 3D printing investments.

Screen printing is not new. What Exentis has done is adapt the process to work with functional materials and industrial tolerances, then packaged it into a production system that a factory can operate without a dedicated AM engineering team. The company also generates revenue from services, materials, and technology licenses, which means its customer relationships extend beyond the initial machine sale.

What the Deals Mean

A $40.8 million order split across two customers is meaningful for any industrial AM company. It signals that manufacturers are willing to commit capital to additive processes for ongoing production rather than treating them as experimental. The consumer electronics focus is also notable, because that sector has historically favored traditional mass-production methods and adopted new manufacturing technologies slowly.

Exentis now has a commercial reference story with two named Asian customers running its systems at production scale. For a company trying to expand its footprint in industrial markets, that is the kind of evidence that opens doors with other buyers evaluating similar investments.