{"id":906,"date":"2011-07-05T21:12:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/906-materials-and-lead-times.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:11:10","slug":"materials-and-lead-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/materials-and-lead-times","title":{"rendered":"Materials and Lead Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- s9ymdb:7490 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2011-06-2317.08.46.jpg\" style=\"float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; \"><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Style-Type\" content=\"text\/css\"><title><\/title><meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Cocoa HTML Writer\"><meta name=\"CocoaVersion\" content=\"1038.35\"><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\np.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica}\np.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px}\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"p1\">This morning we shared with you some of the measures we&#8217;re taking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/905-Handling-Orders-and-Growing-Capacity.html\">step up our supply chain<\/a> for our community. We&#8217;re integrating all these improvements, but what about the state of our materials and our lead times right now? Here&#8217;s a quick rundown:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Silver<\/b> &#8211; We&#8217;ve recently increased both printing capacity and casting capacity for Silver. At the moment, silver is running 2-4 weeks behind, and we expect to be all caught up by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Frosted Detail &amp; Frosted Ultra Detail<\/b> &#8211; A new printer for FD\/FUD has been added. We&#8217;re presently 1-2 weeks behind on FD\/FUD and expect to be caught up in 2-2.5 weeks. Part of the reason for this is the extra time needed to check and handle all Frosted Detail models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>White &amp; Colored Strong Flexible<\/b> &#8211; There are currently no delays in Strong Flexible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Polished White Strong Flexible<\/b> &#8211; Polished SLS is currently 1 &#8211; 2 weeks behind, and all issues will be resolved by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Alumide<\/b> &#8211; There are currently no delays in Alumide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>White, Black &amp; Transparent Detail<\/b> &#8211; These materials are currently 1 &#8211; 2 weeks behind, but all issues will be resolved by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Ceramics<\/b>&nbsp;&#8211; We&#8217;ve added a new, much bigger kiln (6x the capacity!) and have a new printer on the way. <b>[Updated]<\/b> Ceramics is currently 4 weeks behind, and will be back on track by the end of July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Stainless Steel &amp; Glass<\/b> &#8211; There are no delays with Steel or Glass<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Full Color Sandstone<\/b> &#8211; There are no delays with Full Color Sandstone<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<p class=\"p1\">We hope this info helps clear up some of your questions. 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