Ultrafuse® has a much lower start up cost to print functional metal parts. Due to this material being designed to run on a wide range of commercial FFF machines, the machine requirements come with a much smaller price tag than traditional metal additive machines. For example, DMLS (Direct metal laser sintering) machines can start at the $600,000 price range.
Metal filament opens many part possibilities that only additive can access. Some of these possibilities include weight reduction, part features that aren’t possible with subtractive manufacturing, and low-cost small batch production.
One other great feature of metal additive is that these parts can be manipulated in their green state while they are soft before sintering. After sinter, these parts behave/machine the same as a stock piece of 316L / 17-4PH.