Iran-Made Device Produces Toner Required in Printers
“I started laboratory work on this product after being aware of Iran’s serious need for the toner as an expensive and high-consumption material. After research, we found out that in order to produce toner, we should first build machines to produce it, and with personal investment and after spending 15 years of research and development, I was able to produce toner with a unique formula,” said Mohammad Hossein Hassani, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
Noting that the toner production equipment has been made in Iran for the first time by using the internal capacity, he said, “The machine does not have a similar domestic counterpart, and one of its differences compared to the foreign example is the use of local raw materials, meaning petrochemicals.”
“We have produced this toner in cooperation with an Iranian company, and all this know-how and technology has grown internally, and we are able to develop, grow and export it. Also, its price is cheaper than similar foreign samples,” Hassani said.
He noted that the knowledge-based company is able to produce 100 tons of toner per year.
In a relevant development in December, an Iranian knowledge-based company, for the first time in the country, had produced a 3D printer with the capability to produce metal parts.
“Our company is a knowledge-based company that produces 3D metal filters in the country. We built the first metal 3D printer in Iran with the method of selective melting with the help of powder or SLM,” Ahmed Forouzmehr, the managing-director and co-founder of Nora Layeh Negar Industries company, said on the sidelines of the 10th exhibition of Iran-made laboratory equipment and materials, titled Iran Lab Expo 2022 in Tehran.
Noting that the foreign model of the device exists in the world, he said that the European countries are the main producers of this device but it has no sample in the Middle East (West Asia) and Iran has made it for the first time.
“This 3D printing machine has wide applications in various industries, from medicine to energy and auto-making industries since it is able to produce any part with any complexity directly without any problem,” Forouzmehr added.
He underlined that the 3D printer has opened a big window in treating diseases and bone lesions which was not possible before, adding that it can be used for making prostheses and implants, specially in patients with bone lesions caused by cancer or accidents.
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