Lyten, a materials producer and expert in energy storage, and Modovolo, a manufacturer of US-made 3D printers and drones, are improving what the BFP can do.
For information, the BFP is Modovolo’s modular 3D printing platform designed for high-performance parts in aviation, automotive, and industrial machinery. With a transportable design, the platform has been optimized to run on Lyten’s 3D Graphene™ enhanced filaments.
Modovolo says its platform can eliminate supply chain dependencies and be deployed in the harshest conditions, while still delivering aerospace-grade quality.
Justin Call, Modovolo CEO and Co-Founder, stated, “We built BFP out of necessity. We could not find a 3D printer fast enough and affordable enough to produce aerospace-grade components at scale for our drones. We have grown from there to now deploy a fully US-sourced, US-manufactured industrial scale printer. Combining BFP with Lyten’s ultra-high-performance filaments now gives us the ability to instantly stand-up modular factories, anywhere in the world, capable of delivering aviation and industrial grade products.”
The use of Lyten’s 3D Graphene™ enhanced filaments
Due to the fact that it is superelastic, conductive and light, the graphene can improve electronic objects and batteries’ capacities. The only thing is that despite these properties, it has always been difficult to use on a large scale in industry.
In 2018, Researcher Mamoun Taher (at the Department of Chemistry at Uppsala University and CEO of start-up company Graphmatech) opened our eyes to the capabilities of this material for AM.
Lyten enhances our understanding of this material with its 3D printing filament PA1205. The latter is an ultra-high strength, lighter weight nylon-based filament that outperforms carbon fiber-based alternatives in X-Y axis tensile strength (+100%), Z axis tensile strength (+40%), and impact resistance (+50%).
PA1205 also delivers improved temperature performance and faster print speeds, with minimal warping and without sacrificing dimensional accuracy, making it an ideal solution for Modovolo’s BFP platform, delivering aerospace-grade parts anywhere in the world.
Dan Cook, Lyten CEO and Co-Founder, stated, “Our goal is to prove better performing, better priced products can be both sourced and manufactured locally, creating supply chain resiliency and business model flexibility for customers.
We use Lyten’s proprietary 3D Graphene to not just make better 3D printing filaments, but to enable aerospace, motor sports, and industrial customers to rethink how they design, how they manufacture, and how they supply products around the world. We could not be more excited to integrate PA1205 into Modovolo’s BFP 3D printing platform to help scale their product globally.“
Modovolo has already been utilizing Lyten’s filaments since 2025 for the manufacturing of its Lift Quadcopter-X, a multi-payload, ultra lightweight drone designed to handle commercial, first responder, and defense tasks all within a single system.
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