Another addition to our growing list of 3D fabbing services: Materialise. Belgian-based Materialise falls into the “professional” category, as they focus on delivering rapid prototypes to engineers and designers. A large, 500 person operation, Materialise has four divisions and provides not only fabbing services, but also is “a major player in medical and dental image processing and surgery simulation”. Materialise has a long history beginning in the early 1990’s and now has offices across the globe providing fabrication services of all types, including:
Stereolithography
Mammoth Stereolithography
Next Day Stereolithography
Polyjet
Selective Laser Sintering
Fused Deposition Modelling
High Speed Milling
Vacuum Casting
Hand Lay-up
Metal Casting
Reaction Injection Moulding
Injection Mould Tooling
Strangely, their online quoting engine “OnSite” is usable only with MS Internet Explorer!
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