Korean Startup Metal Printing Ships First Metal 3D Printer to Europe

A South Korean startup called Metal Printing has signed its first European export contract, sending its GAUSS MT90 paste-based metal 3D printer and dedicated GAUSS INK materials to Servohemia University in the Czech Republic. Deliveries start in October.

How the GAUSS MT90 works

Most desktop metal 3D printers use a powder bed or binder jetting process that requires sealed chambers, powder handling systems, and significant safety infrastructure. The GAUSS MT90 takes a different approach: it extrudes metal paste through a nozzle at room temperature, much like a standard FDM printer handles PLA. The paste, called GAUSS INK, comes in syringe cartridges loaded with materials including 316L stainless steel, copper, iron, and titanium.

That architecture shifts the process complexity away from loose powder and high-energy heat sources and into a closed, office-friendly machine. The tradeoff is layer resolution: the MT90 prints at 0.15 to 0.5 mm layers, coarser than powder bed systems, but adequate for research, education, and many industrial tooling applications.

CES recognition and global ambitions

The GAUSS MT90 won a CES 2026 Innovation Award in the Robotics category, which gave the company visibility beyond South Korea's research-instrument market. Metal Printing had already supplied domestic universities before signing the Servohemia deal. The Czech contract is explicitly a beachhead: the company plans to expand across European academic and industrial markets and open branches in the United States and Japan within two years.

Why paste-based metal printing matters

Metal 3D printing has largely been confined to industrial facilities with dedicated powder-management infrastructure. Paste-based extrusion removes that barrier by packaging the material in sealed cartridges and eliminating powder dust from the workflow. The approach is not a replacement for high-resolution powder bed systems in aerospace or medical applications, but it opens metal additive manufacturing to universities, small labs, and mid-size manufacturers that could not justify the capital and safety requirements of a conventional metal AM setup.