The ExOne Company and the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (“Fraunhofer IFAM”) announced they are deepening their partnership on binder and materials development projects following the success of CleanFuse™ metal binder. Fraunhofer IFAM’s relationship with ExOne on metal binder jetting development spans more than two decades. They have been working together since about 1998, when ExOne, then part of Extrude Hone, launched the world’s first commercial metal binder jetting system, the RTS-300. In recent years, they have jointly refined and optimized CleanFuse, an ExOne binder based on a development by Fraunhofer IFAM. The result is a clean-burning binder for optimal 3D printing of stainless steels and premium metals.