3D Printing Museum

Many items to do with 3D Printing, in the news today, are about processes, materials and applications that are produced on new machines now, yet 3 decades ago some of the lucky few were quietly making history in many and varied application areas that some companies kept quiet to gain competitive advantage. We wish to pay tribute to those pioneers in the 3D Printing museum. Several corporations are helping to display their applications that were ground breaking at that time and even now all those years later can teach others what is possible.
Other applications that show recent developments of materials and machines are also included as well as developments in 3D CAD and Digital Manufacturing that includes Formative, Additive and Subtractive Technologies (FAST) these are all part of the global Time Compression Technology movement.

By 1999 other companies than those mentioned in above menu selection were known to own an SLA but did not publicly offer bureau services. They were:
BAe (Lostock & Warton) DRA Malvern, Ford Brentwood, Lever, Rolls Royce, Williams, Jordan, Kinnear Duffort, MCP, Cardiff Uni, Roush, Ogle, Portsmouth Uni.

Cubital Ltd, Solid Ground Curing, Solider 5600 (1986) Israel.

3DSystems, SLA 1 (1987).

DTM, SLS (27th February 1989).

Stratasys, FDM (1989).

EOS GmbH, Electro Optical Systems (1989)Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS)

Helisys Inc. (now Cubic Technologies), LOM (Laminated Object Manufacturing - paper, plastic & metal)

Sanders Prototype Inc. (then Solidscape Inc. now Stratasys), Wax printer.

1993 Sparx (Sweden)

BPM Technology Inc. (1995) Personal Modeller nozzle jetting known as Ballistic Particle Manufacturing.

EnvisionTEC, DLP (1999 - Digital Light Processing)

Objet Geometries Limited, Polyjet, (now Stratasys)

Arcam AB, EBM (1997) Electron Beam powder Melting (1993) patent application filed.

F & S Stereolithographietecnik Gmbh, (Fockele & Schwartze)

MCP - HEK Tooling Gmbh.

Speed Part AB.

Z Corporation. (Licensee of MIT's 3DP process)

Voxeljet Technologies Gmbh

Generis Gmbh

Fcubic AB inkjet-based Stainless Steel production system of small parts (10 mm cube)

Microfabrica Inc.

Light Sculpting Inc. (DesCAF - Design Controlled Automatic Fabrication) Fist Beta system installed in 1998, photomasking techniques.

Kira Corporation, (PLT) Paper Layer Technology is similar to the LOM but uses knife instead of laser to cut out profiles and support removal.

Mcor Technologies, Their Matrix machine uses selective adhesion of paper layers and knife cuts. Similar to Kira PLT technology but at a much lower cost.

Solidimensions, laminations of PVC plastic.

CIRTES, Stratoconception, layers of thick metal sheets machined and mechanically bonded together.

XJET, Carmel 1400 Nanoparticle ceramic and metal 3D printer.

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