Putzmeister unit unveils innovative mobile printer

INSTATIQ, a 3D concrete printing specialist spun off from the Germany-headquartered Putzmeister Group, recently showcased its innovative mobile printer that prints concrete directly onsite without formwork. Thanks to a clever combination of mobile concrete pump and robot technology, walls can be built quickly, sustainably and precisely, it says.

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The Instatiq P1 mobile 3D printer, which was launched at Bauma 2025, the world’s largest construction trade fair, held in Munich last April, combines mobile concrete pumping and robotic automation to produce solid, load-bearing walls with high precision and minimal setup time.

“A major advantage of printing technology is the end-to-end digitalisation of planning and construction processes,” says a spokesman for Putzmeister. “The planned components are extracted from digital building models and then translated into individual print layers. The print path and print speed are determined by various parameters, considering the material. This data is transferred into a machine code that is read into the system. The Instatiq P1 then prints the building layer by layer, with the system processing the plan fully automatically.”