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What a kilo costs
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Put a real price against these numbers
The one figure this model cannot supply is what the machine costs you — that depends on configuration, options and where you are. Send us the scenario you have just built and you get a quote against your own numbers, not a brochure.
We will also tell you the two things that matter more than the machine price: what your feedstock should actually cost at the quantity you would order, and what yield to expect on your material.
Thank you — that is on its way.
Your scenario went with it, so whoever picks this up already has your volumes, your material and your prices in front of them. Expect a reply within two working days.
Where every number comes from
An ROI figure is worth only as much as its assumptions, so all of them are here. Machine capabilities are quoted from 3devo's published specification, and filament prices are European market medians stated with the number of stores and listings behind each.
The feedstock prices are different, and you should treat them differently. They are indicative placeholders, not quotations. What a kilo of pellets, regrind or powder actually costs depends on the supplier, the grade, the region and how much you order — published prices for the same polymer span more than tenfold, from tonne-scale resin to small compounded bags. Nobody can give you a single honest number for that, so we have not pretended to. It is also the field that moves the result more than anything else on this page, which makes replacing it with your own quote the first thing worth doing — and the thing most worth asking us about.
| Assumption | Basis | Starting value | Source |
|---|
What is marked amber, and why
Every feedstock price is an indicative placeholder, for the reason above. Three further figures — power draw of 400 W, usable yield of 95% and a 30-second spool swap — are 3devo's own working numbers but are not yet in the published specification, so nobody can check them against a document. Those three together account for under €1.10 of the cost of a kilo, so they matter far less than the feedstock price; ask for them in writing, per material and per voltage, before a number from here goes into a business case.
What the model does not count
These are real reasons customers move production in-house, and none of them is in the arithmetic above — so treat the payback figure as the floor of the case rather than the whole of it.
| Not counted | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Waste you already pay to remove | MJF and SLS powder, regrind and failed prints are a disposal cost today. Feeding them into the machine replaces a bought kilo and deletes a disposal charge, but the numbers are specific to your waste stream and your contractor. |
| Supply security | A material on allocation, discontinued, or on a twelve-week lead time has a cost that only shows up when a line stops. |
| Filament nobody sells you | Custom blends, filled compounds, colour matching and validation grades have no market price to compare against, because you cannot buy them. |
| Freight, duty and stockholding | Extruding on site removes inbound freight on finished filament and the working capital tied up in spools on a shelf. |
| Transport emissions and landfill | Real, and increasingly reportable, but we are not putting a figure on it here without a stated method. |