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Groundbreaking Collection Highlights Possibilities for 3D-Printed Platinum Jewellery Design
Platinum Guild International Leads Efforts to Expand Platinum’s Production Capabilities Using 3D Printing Technology with Tùsaire Collection by Maeve Gillies
Platinum Guild International (PGI) continues to champion technological advancements in platinum jewellery design and fabrication with a ground-breaking development in 3D printing. The innovative Tùsaire collection, created by Scottish-American jewellery designer Maeve Gillies using 3D printing technology, is the first platinum-based collection of its kind to be launched commercially.
The Tùsaire Collection is named after the Scottish Gaelic word for “pioneer” and features jewellery made from platinum and titanium, including necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings that highlight the potential of 3D printed platinum in the realm of jewellery design and fabrication.
While sharing this latest development in the platinum jewellery market at ORIGINALLUXURY’s 5th Roundtable event in Geneva in May 2025, which brought together 150 luxury, technology and finance stakeholders, PGI’s CEO Tim Schlick explained, “We needed to put 3D printing of platinum to the test, to identify the advantages and challenges, in the hope of expediting the technology’s application in making precious jewellery and its ability to create novel designs and experiences. There is no doubt additive manufacturing will be very important for the future of jewellery as it unlocks so many new possibilities.”
While 3D printing was already an established technology for jewellery production, the launch of the Tùsaire collection beautifully demonstrates the decorative, scale and structural potential for 3D printed platinum jewellery. For example, the 3D printing and precious metal powder technology used have enabled the crafting of intricate, unique shapes that would be impossible to achieve otherwise, such as lattices, hollow structures and detailed textures. As Mr. Schlick noted during the workshop, “We are just beginning to understand how platinum can create new emotional and practical value in 3D printing, not only through how it looks, but how it is made, owned, and experienced.”
“This moment marks a pivotal opportunity for platinum to redefine its role in luxury through creativity, cross-sector collaboration, and future-ready innovation,” said Margot Stuart, co-founder of ORIGINALLUXURY and OriginAll S.A..
“As most of my work is in diamond bridal jewellery fabrication, I learned through experience that platinum is the ideal bridal metal due to its strength, resilience, and suitability for diamond design innovation. For this 3D-printed jewellery collection, my knowledge of platinum was invaluable in allowing me to design new solutions with the printing technology, helping to transform platinum into new jewellery looks and categories,” said Gillies about her experience designing and developing the 3D-printed jewellery.
The direct metal printing of the platinum pieces was completed by the Italian-based company ProGold, which utilises metal laser powder bed fusion and other technologies to develop and produce parts from precious metals for a range of industries.
“Due to platinum’s high tenacity, strength and high melting temperature, it enables the highest quality of structural integrity with precise heat control. Its good light absorption and low reflectivity also make platinum a comparatively energy-efficient metal for printing with lasers.” Tai Wong, Director of Innovations and Product Development at PGI shares. “Platinum’s metal attributes are superior for processes like laser powder bed fusion, and we found the best of platinum’s strength and shine are optimised by direct metal printing.”
The technology catapults platinum into new types of jewellery by enabling the creation of larger silhouettes that were previously impossible because platinum is traditionally a heavier, denser, and more expensive metal. However, platinum is currently highly desirable, partly because its price makes it more affordable than gold.
“This is such an interesting time in the industry because technologies are coming in thick and fast. At the same time, craft has never been more important for people to preserve and understand the process and the possibilities of new materials and new ways of expressing and pushing more towards what platinum can do,” added Ms. Gillies.
Riacetech Srl is a dynamic and technologically advanced company. It focuses its core business on the creation of innovative wax injectors, fully controllable and programmable. It provides all the companies in the casting industry with a wide range of totally automatic and certified machines, all with different functionalities and configurations, that are suitable for Industry 4.0 and meet all the needs of the jewellery and fashion accessories world. It also provides a wide variety of consumable products.
The RiaceWax AUTOMATIC BELT SYSTEM INTUITIVE injector belongs to the Intuitive line and retains all its features; it can inject up to 20 molds of different sizes at the same time by loading them automatically and speeding up the entire production process thanks to the self-centering function on the molds of different sizes; it can create light and very thin objects, maintaining their weight over time.
Fully controllable from a 10.1” industrial PC, it can double the standard daily production, realising up to 4800 pieces in 8 hours, injecting moulds of very different sizes with the help of only one operator and reducing the number of defective waxes.
An Android tablet is the control unit of both the machine and the loading system, with specially developed apps that also allow checking statistics and productivity. Thanks to the ability to connect remotely, it is compatible with Industry 4.0.
It is equipped with a transparent melting tank with a constant vacuum system, digital sensors to control the pressures that always allow for checking the graphs of the vacuum trend on the molds during injection from the tablets, an RFID reader, a TC-700 cooler, a 16-cmc injection syringe with final temperature regulation and a self-centring clamp with 120x90mm plates.
This machine is designed to accommodate a versatile range of mould sizes, supporting dimensions from a minimum of 50 x 30 x 12 mm up to a maximum of 120 x 90 x 47 mm. The unit itself weighs 75 kg with a physical footprint of 130 x 72 x 53 cm.
Alessio Farnetani, Sales Manager-RiaceWax, underscoring the USP, said, “This machine works without any downtime and reduces errors. There has been a good response from Indian jewellery manufacturers because this system speeds up production, maintains quality and ensures weight consistency, which is critical given rising prices of gold.”
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