Sinterit + DyeMansion: Industrial Finishing Comes to Compact SLS

Key takeaways

Sinterit will now sell DyeMansion’s VX1 vapour smoothing system — and can supply the DM60 colouring system — as part of its BIANCO2 SLS package, giving customers a single, integrated print-to-finish workflow.
The deal puts industrial-grade surface finishing, previously the preserve of large production floors, within reach of compact and benchtop SLS users.
The VX1 uses DyeMansion’s VaporFuse Surfacing to seal parts to a finish the companies compare to injection-moulded plastic; the DM60 then adds automated colour.
Announced on 22–23 July 2026, the tie-up also trails a compact “Powershot” cleaning unit that DyeMansion says will launch at Formnext 2026.
It is the second such compact-SLS-plus-finishing pairing in three months, after Raise3D and AMT struck a similar agreement in April 2026.

Compact SLS just grew a proper back end. Polish selective laser sintering specialist Sinterit has partnered with German post-processing house DyeMansion to sell industrial finishing gear directly alongside its printers — closing the gap between a raw, powdery SLS part and a finished, coloured, end-use component. The agreement was reported on 23 July by 3D Printing Industry and a day earlier by TCT Magazine.

What is actually changing

Under the deal, Sinterit will resell DyeMansion’s VX1 vapour smoothing system directly to its own customers, and can also supply the DM60 automated colouring system and other DyeMansion equipment as a shop’s production needs grow. The pairing is built around BIANCO2, Sinterit’s latest compact powder-bed fusion printer for white and natural powders.

The practical change is procurement, not just capability. Until now, a small SLS shop wanting professional smoothing and colour had to assemble that workflow itself — sourcing a printer from one vendor, a smoother from another, a colouring line from a third. Now the printing, surface finishing and colouring can be bought and configured through a single supplier. “This partnership brings together Sinterit’s accessible and flexible SLS 3D printing ecosystem with DyeMansion’s leading industrial post-processing technologies,” said Łukasz Adach, CFO at Sinterit, adding that customers can now tailor a complete setup to their specific requirements.

Why compact SLS needed this

SLS has always had a finishing problem. Parts come out of the powder bed accurate and strong but visibly grainy and porous — fine for a functional prototype, less so for a customer-facing product. Vapour smoothing fixes that, but the machines that do it have historically been sized and priced for high-volume industrial lines, leaving benchtop and compact SLS owners stuck hand-finishing or outsourcing.

That is the gap DyeMansion has been chipping away at. Its VX1, introduced at Formnext 2025, gave the company a lower-capacity option alongside its larger Powerfuse systems; more than 50 customers had adopted it by the show. Bolting that onto Sinterit’s install base — which the company says spans more than 80 countries and 3,000-plus engineering projects — is a natural next move for both sides.

VaporFuse, and the colour angle

The VX1 runs DyeMansion’s proprietary VaporFuse Surfacing (VFS) process, which uses a solvent vapour to smooth and seal a part’s surface. The result, according to the companies, is a high-gloss, water-repellent finish with repeatable results — close to the look and feel of an injection-moulded part, and applicable to existing SLS production without re-tooling.

Colour is the other half of the pitch. Sinterit showed sample parts printed white on BIANCO2, vapour-smoothed on the VX1, then dyed on the DM60 in yellow, orange, red, purple, blue and green — what it described as the first colourful parts ever produced for users of its ecosystem, shown next to a grey raw PA12 Industrial part for comparison. For anyone making end-use goods, jigs or consumer products, that print-smooth-colour chain is the difference between a prototype and a product.

A pattern, not a one-off

This is the second compact-SLS-plus-finishing deal in short order. In April 2026, Raise3D and Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) paired the RMS220 SLS platform with AMT’s PostPro SF2X vapour smoother. The through-line is clear: as affordable powder-bed printers reach more workshops, the printer alone is no longer the product — the finished part is, and vendors are racing to own the whole workflow rather than just the machine at the front of it.

DyeMansion CEO and co-founder Felix Ewald framed the Sinterit tie-up as a reach play: “Sinterit has built an impressive customer base across 80 countries in the last 10 years, and this partnership opens up a significant opportunity to bring DyeMansion’s post-processing quality to those users.” He also confirmed a compact Powershot cleaning unit is due to launch at Formnext 2026 — a sign the “shrink the industrial workflow to bench scale” theme has room to run.

Why it matters

For small manufacturers and design studios, the calculus for adopting SLS just got simpler: one vendor, one workflow, industrial-quality output. It also nudges compact SLS further from “prototyping tool” toward “small-batch production system” — the direction the whole polymer AM market has been trending. Nobody’s numbers changed overnight, but the barrier to a finished, sellable SLS part did.

FAQ

What does the DyeMansion VX1 actually do?

It is a vapour smoothing machine. Using DyeMansion’s VaporFuse Surfacing process, it smooths and seals the rough surface of an SLS part to a glossy, water-repellent finish the companies compare to injection moulding — no manual sanding required.

Which Sinterit printer is this built around?

The BIANCO2, Sinterit’s latest compact powder-bed fusion printer for white and natural powders. The VX1 and DM60 are being sold as part of that BIANCO2 offering, though DyeMansion’s finishing gear can be used with other SLS parts too.

Can I get colour parts out of it?

Yes — that is what the DM60 colouring system adds. Sinterit demonstrated white BIANCO2 parts smoothed on the VX1 and then dyed in a range of colours, which it called the first colourful parts produced for its ecosystem.

What is the compact Powershot, and when does it arrive?

It is a smaller DyeMansion cleaning/depowdering unit. CEO Felix Ewald said it will launch at Formnext 2026, extending the compact post-processing line-up beyond smoothing and colouring.