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On July 18, 2019, Antarctic Bear learned from foreign media that Jabil, a global manufacturing service company in Florida,3D printingMachine supplier Essentium Inc. filed a lawsuit. It is reported that the main reason for this prosecution is that the founding members of Essentium plagiarized Jabil’s high-speed extrusion technology (HSE), which was developed during his previous work at Jabil. The indictment was filed on June 28, 2019 and is seeking a jury trial.Representative of Greenberg Traurig Law Firm: “Simply put, Essentium stole Jabil’s trade secrets and used the confidential information that Jabil invested thousands of hours and millions of dollars in development over several years.”In addition, he said, “Essentium’s HSE printers are basically obsolete.” Due to the sensitivity of the topic, only Jabil has made public comments on the case so far. Michelle Smith, Vice President of Corporate Communications at Jabil, said: “As a global leader in additive manufacturing, Jabil is committed to3D printingProtect our intellectual property rights in machine innovation. Our confidential design, supplier relations and other trade secrets have been accused in our legal proceedings to protect our substantive investment. “ About Jabil Founded in 1969, Jabil is a PC component manufacturer and has now grown into a company with 100 factories and 170,000 employees in 28 countries around the world.In the field of additive manufacturing, the company is usually one of the first companies to experiment with new technologies. In 2016, it became the first company to purchase HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printingIn the next year, it will become DragonFly 2020 under Nano Dimension. 3D printingThe first commercial customer of the machine.Recently, the company has also established its own material innovation center to develop3D printingWire and powder. 
Jabil’s statement dates back to 2016, when some members of the founding team of Essentium worked at Jabil. Essentium’s current CFO Erik Gjovik, the company’s former CCO’s Greg Ojeda, R&D director Terry MacNeish, and Lars Uffhausen, Essentium CCO and CFO are all hired by Jabil for the purpose of implementing confidential projects. The project involves the so-called “TenX”3D printingMachine development.During this time, Gjovik was a director of Jabil and then senior director of additive manufacturing engineering services. Ojeda has held management positions in Jabil’s Additive Manufacturing Ecosystem Development and Strategy department. MacNeish was hired by Jabil as TenX’s chief design engineer, and Uffhausen was also the company’s contractor.
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Essentium Materials was formally established in 2013, but is responsible for providing HSE 3D printingThe machine’s company Essentium Inc. was established in October 2018, after which all defendants resigned from Jabil. The upcoming HSE system is called 180-S, which was announced by Essentium in April 2018. The machine was exhibited to the public for the first time at RAPID + TCT 2019. After receiving US$22.2 million in Series A investment, the company plans to increase the number of employees to 200 in the next five years. |
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