Short-run, Complex Part Manufacturing and 3D Printing Service Bureau.
Akhani 3D provides an optimal, Professional, Production and Industrial part manufacturing service for manufacturers and innovators.
Low volume part requirements? Complex part geometries? Critical end-use parts? Supply chain delays?
Get your parts manufactured locally and optimally using world class, advanced hybrid manufacturing technologies.
Professional ISO 9001:2015 Certified 3D Printing and Finishing Services
Looking for more than a desktop 3D printer or your tooling and engineering shop is able or willing to provide? Our combination of traditional manufacturing capabilities, industrial Polymer and Metal 3D printing services and post processing — a print-to-product workflow — give you accuracy and repeatability. You get precise parts — every time. Get your functional prototypes, complex part designs, and low volume serial production components manufactured in record time. Start by uploading your 3D CAD model(s) and get a 3D printing price online.
Part Manufacturing. Optimised.
A comprehensive approach is the only way to optimise your parts for cost-effective and efficient Hybrid manufacturing, Agile manufacturing and Additive Manufacturing production. Akhani 3D is your local South African agile part manufacturer and ISO 9001:2015 certified production 3D Printing Service bureau that combines advanced and traditional manufacturing technologies to optimise your parts and part production.
The Akhani 3D team has helped thousands of customers bring their products to market with quality 3D-printed parts by using a hybrid approach to optimally manufacture their parts.
Design for AM
Additive Manufacturing creates design possibilities that are infeasible for traditional manufacturing processes. We can help your team with part optimisation to take advantage of these possibilities.
Optimise for AM Production
There are a number of 3D printing technologies. We’ll help you optimise your parts to take advantage of these and traditional technologies that will allow you to use AM for part production, not just prototyping.
Finishing
We offer a number of print-to-product finishing options for your 3D printed parts. These include CNC post-processing, support removal, polishing and dyeing facilities.
We use the optimal Agile manufacturing technologies to produce your parts.
Whether we employ a hybrid approach or manufacture your parts using additive manufacturing, you get the benefits of the range of technologies we employ to manufacture your parts.
Akhani 3D offers turnkey digital part production technologies to meet your manufacturing needs. The technologies we employ include production-quality Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing in Polymers and Metals), CNC milling, and Low-Volume Injection Moulding. Our manufacturing technologies are complemented by our value-adding service offerings in 3D Scanning, Reverse Engineering, Part Optimisation, and Part Finishing (Surfacing, Cerakote® Ceramic coating and Dyeing).
Here’s a list of the 3D Printing Services, Manufacturing + Finishing capabilities we have in-house:
- Metal Powder Bed Fusion (DMLS – Direct Metal Laser Sintering)
- Stainless Steel (316L)
- Aluminium Alloy (6061)
- Maraging Steel (MS1)
- Copper (subject to demand)
- Polymer Powder Bed Fusion (SLS – Selective Laser Sintering)
- Fused Filament Fabrication (FDM – Fused Deposition Modelling)
- Onyx (Micro Carbon Fiber Filled Nylon)
- CNC Machining (3-Axis)
- Machining Parts from Stock
- Metal AM Part Finishing (Facing, Drilling, Milling)
- Hybrid Manufacturing (Metal AM – CNC)
- SLS Part Finishing (Dyemansion Print-to-Product Workflow)
- Powershot Cleaning (SLS Part Depowdering)
- Powershot Surfacing (SLS Part Surfacing)
- Deepdye Colouring (SLS Part Dyeing)
- CERAKOTE® Finishing
- Cerakote® is a ceramic polymer based proprietary formulation that offers industry leading durability, hardness, scratch resistance, corrosion resistance, flexibility, heat and chemical resistance. Cerakote® can be applied to most substrates including metals, plastics, polymers and composites. Cerakote® Safety Data Sheets.
- Engineering Services
- 3D Scanning (In-House and On-Site)
- Turnkey Reverse Engineering (3D Scan – Mesh – CAD file)
- Optimisation for Manufacturing Technology
- Optimisation for Part Cost
- Rapid Tooling
Get your 3D printing price right now on our 3D Print Service Online Quotation Engine
Obligation-free quotes to 3D print your designs.
Simply upload your 3D CAD files, select your material and you will get a live quotation, ready for processing. You can then place your order, which will then be placed directly into our print queue.
See how easy it is — this online 3D printing quotation walkthrough takes you through the steps and details the options available to you.
If you have any questions, our engineering team will help guide you through the process.
Get Your 3D Metal & Plastic Parts Built + Finished
Offices in South Africa
The Akhani 3D manufacturing head office is located in Howick KwaZulu-Natal which is a 20 minute drive from Pietermaritzburg and an 80 minute drive from Durban. This manufacturing facility serves 3D printing clients nationally and internationally.
The Western Cape office is a consulting and application engineering facility, by appointment only, based in Montague Gardens and serves customers in Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Epping, Milnerton and Paarl.
The Gauteng office is a consulting and application engineering facility, by appointment only, based in Midrand, and serves customers in the greater Johannesburg area, Sandton, East rand (Ekurhuleni), West Rand (Krugersdorp), Vanderbijlpark, Midrand and Pretoria.
Industries served
Aerospace, Mining, Automotive manufacturing, Tooling, Agricultural parts, Injection Moulding, General Engineering, Marine, Energy – Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, Hearing protection, IoT device enclosures, Medical, Product Manufacturers, Retail.
If you are looking to buy a 3D printer, visit our sister company, Rapid 3D.