Zecotek Announces Breakthrough Manufacturing Technology for Metal Powders used with 3D Printers

SINGAPORE , Feb. 2, 2015 - Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX-V: ZMS; Frankfurt : W1I; OTCPK: ZMSPF), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for industrial, healthcare and scientific markets, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Zecotek Display Systems Pte. Ltd. and its strategic partners the Institute of Chemical Physics and LT-Pyrkal have successfully developed a unique manufacturing technology for metal powders to be used with 3D printers. The new manufacturing approach uses metal hydrides synthesis and has significant advantages over traditional techniques: high productivity, superior quality of synthesized hydride, significantly lower energy consumption, ecological purity and safety of the process among other key functional parameters. 

"Our new and unique manufacturing technology for metal powders is a significant achievment in the advancement of 3D printing," said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk , Chairman, President, and CEO of Zecotek Photonics Inc.  "The quest for cheap and available powders of refractory metals has been long and hard and the 3D industry will value our solution.  Laser sintering based 3D printing is undoubtedly the technology of the future.  We expect the advantages of our breakthrough technology to greatly contribute to the rapid development of additive technologies for 3D rapid manufacturing.  The development of a new generation of hydrogen-containing materials, including those based on refractory metals, nano-modified alloys and certain inter-metallides groups, is key for additive 3D printing technologies.  Zecotek and its strategic partners are leading the way in this very vast and rapidly changing market. "