OECHSLER has grown its lattice production into a fleet of 40 Carbon printers running three shifts all week, and expects to turn out roughly two million components in 2026.
The figures come from a Carbon blog profile of the business, which began with talks in 2015 and 2016. By 2017 OECHSLER was running high-volume production on the first L1 printers available anywhere, which made it Carbon’s first high-volume production partner and the first company to operate a Carbon fleet with a full production workflow at scale.
The trigger was a single product that suited Carbon EPU 41, backed by a process that made sense on both scalability and economics. For a company with decades of injection molding behind it, that was enough to treat additive as a production line rather than an experiment.
Since then the fleet has grown as OECHSLER deliberately broadened its portfolio so the additive business would not hinge on one or two customers. Volumes have moved up and down over the years, as they do in any manufacturing business. OECHSLER notes that others in the market may produce more parts, but the size of its components puts that output firmly in large-scale territory.
The defining decision came early. Instead of printing general parts the way classic sample providers do, OECHSLER chose to focus entirely on lattice components and to stay with customers from the first idea through market introduction. Nearly ten years in, that focus covers development as well as production, and each new program draws on the lessons of the last.
Consumer goods are still a major part of the business, with lattice cushioning elements for helmets, saddles and footwear. The newer push is into rigid components suited to medical technology and industrial markets. In medtech, printing the part is only the start. Process controls and far stricter product and quality requirements matter even more, and that is where a disciplined, high-volume operation earns its place.
OECHSLER is blunt about the kind of work it is built for. “If you need a partner for ten showcase pieces but nothing more, we are most likely not the right partner. But if you need a production company that can produce volume at the same high level of quality over multiple years, that is why our customers come to us.”
Source: Carbon
