G'day

How It Started

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Extrudinaire didn't start with a business plan. It started with a FlashForge and a dwindling student budget.

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Fresh out of high school and into a mechanical engineering degree, I bought my own 3D printer and immediately ran into the same wall everyone does: filament is expensive. Large parts were off the table. The printer sat full of potential while the economics worked against using it.

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That gap bothered me enough to start asking why.

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The answer was obvious once I looked: industrial manufacturing had never used filament. It used raw polymer - pellets, bought in bulk, processed efficiently. Filament wasn't the material. It was the bottleneck.

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Pellet extrusion already existed at industrial scale. What didn't exist was an accessible, high-performance system that brought those economics to a wider market. That's the gap Extrudinaire was built to close.

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What We Build

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Extrudinaire designs and manufactures pellet extrusion heads - the core technology that makes large-format pellet printing possible. Our MX CORE platform is engineered for real throughput with real materials: engineering polymers, filled composites, and recycled feedstocks that filament-based systems can't handle at scale.

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We also take on custom extrusion projects for manufacturers and integrators who need something built to spec.

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Why It Matters

If material cost stops a student from experimenting, it stops a manufacturer from scaling. I hit that barrier myself - Extrudinaire exists to remove it.

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Eli Gomez-Kervin | Founder & CEO