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The Toro Company - Eliminating support removal that took twice as long as the print itself

The Toro Company, founded in 1914, serves in 125 countries across the globe as one of the recognized brands in maintenance solutions for the outdoor environment. Acknowledging the dynamic edge that additive manufacturing could give them, Toro implemented their FDM printer back in 2012, but ramped those numbers up to six in the following years. However, as print volume rapidly increased, it became clear that this growth would be stunted by FDM support removal bottlenecks. At their most crippling, these post-printing bottlenecks would manifest in support removal times that were twice the length of build times.