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News Release from: Moog FCS
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 November 2001
US$10 million agreement for solid object
printers
3D Systems and Cynovad have announced a manufacturing and supply agreement for several hundred solid object printers, to be supplied by the end 2004.
3D Systems and Cynovad have announced a manufacturing and supply agreement for several hundred solid object printers, to be supplied by the end 2004 The agreement is valued at more than US$10 million, including materials and 3D Systems service support
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Under the agreement, 3D Systems will deliver the printers re-branded as the WaxPro printer, to be sold exclusively by Cynovad to dental laboratories around the world.
The printers are intended for rapid manufacturing of dental prosthetics such as copings, crowns and bridges.
The dental parts produced by the printer can be used as master patterns for investment casting of metals and ceramics.
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"Cynovad's ability to sell directly to dental laboratories adds an exciting new application for digital 3-D printing," says Gordon Moore, 3D Systems's Vice President for the Americas.
"We expect this automated technology to benefit an industry that has for years relied on more time-consuming methods for model-making." Naoum Araj, President of Cynovad, said: "We are very happy to establish this partnership with 3D Systems.
The WaxPro system responds to the needs of dental laboratories to increase their throughput and reduce their operating costs while keeping consistent and reliable prostheses quality." According to Cynovad's research, more than 50,000 dental laboratories in North America, Western Europe and Japan produce about 100 million restorations annually.
The WaxPro process integrates 3D Systems's solid object printer technology with Cynovad's scanning and modeling technologies developed specifically for dental applications.
The combined technologies operate under Cynovad's global operating software and will provide dental laboratories with an efficient, semi-automated waxing process that will substantially reduce labour costs.
Founded in 1986, 3D Systems provides solid-imaging products and solutions that help reduce the time and cost of designing products and facilitating direct and indirect manufacturing.
Its systems utilise patented technologies that create physical objects from digital input.
3D Systems currently offers the ThermoJet solid object printer, SLA systems (stereolithography) and SLS systems (selective laser sintering), as well as related software and materials.
The company licenses the complementary 3D Keltool process - a method for producing steel mould inserts - and is currently developing systems that use composite paste materials for direct manufacturing.
In August 2001, 3D Systems merged with DTM Corporation and announced its intent to acquire Rapid Prototyping Chemicals (RPC) Ltd of Marly, Switzerland.
(This was Engineeringtalk's Top Story on 28 November 2001).
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