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Manufacturers & Developers of
Additive Systems
For
information on system manufacturers and developers, see Wohlers Report
2010, an annual worldwide progress report on the additive
manufacturing state of the industry.
- Arcam
EBM S12 machine uses Electron Beam Melting technology to
produce metal parts from powder (Sweden).
- Bits
from Bytes
RapMan system, a version of the RepRap "open source" 3D
printer (England).
- Boxford
Low-cost RapidPRO lamination process for rapid prototyping (England).
- Carima
DLP-based system (South Korea).
- CMET
Stereolithography machines (Japan).
- Concept
Laser M3 Linear laser melting system.
- Cubic
Technologies Laminated Object Manufacturing (paper lamination) systems.
- CVE
Developing an electron beam additive manufacturing machine.
- Cyba
Manufacturing Technology Developing a machine that includes additive laser fused powder deposition and
CNC milling (UK).
- D-MEC
Solid Creation System (Japan).
- Dimension
3D printers from Stratasys.
- DSM
Somos Materials for additive systems.
- Envisiontec Photopolymerization process based on layer-by-layer
mask projection using Digital Light Processing technology
(Germany).
- EOS
EOSINT laser sintering machines and materials (Germany).
- Evil
Mad Scientist Laboratories Candyfab 4000 machine based on the
melting of table sugar using a stream of hot air.
- Fab@Home
Open-source extrusion-based 3D printer developed at Cornell
University.
- KoBa
Industries Fab@Home machines as kits or assembled.
- Kira
Solid Center paper lamination systems (Japan).
- Makerbot
Industries Version of the RepRap "open source" 3D
printer.

Part produced in ULTEM 9085,
courtesy of Stratasys
- MTT
Selective laser melting machines (England).
- Mcor
Technologies Mcor Matrix desktop paper lamination system
(Ireland).
- Microfabrica
Developing proprietary EFAB technology for creating micromachines and
other miniature objects.
- MK
Technology GmbH Vacuum casting system for making RTV silicone
rubber molds and prototypes.
- Objet
Geometries PolyJet 3D printers that jet and
solidify photopolymer
(Israel).
- Optomec
Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) direct metal deposition system.
- Phenix
Systems Solid phase laser sintering of ceramic and metal parts
(France).
- POM
Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) systems.
- ProMetal,
a division of Ex One Corp. Powder metal and sand systems based on 3D inkjet printing
technology from MIT.
- RepRap
Open-source extrusion-based 3D printer developed at Bath University
(UK).
- RSP
Tooling Commercializing the spray metal Rapid Solidification
Process (RSP) for tooling applications, originally developed at the Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).
- Sciaky
Electron beam additive manufacturing equipment.
- Shanghai
Union Technology RS3500, RS4500, and RS6000 stereolithography systems
(China).
- Sintermask
Selective Mask Sintering using polyamide powder, infrared lamps, and
masking technology (Sweden).
- Solidica
Form-ation 2030 system based on ultrasonic welding and CNC
technologies.
- Solido
Desktop 3D printer using plastic lamination (Israel).

Shoe sole models created on a system
from
Z Corp., courtesy of Reebok
For
information on system manufacturers and developers, see Wohlers Report
2010, an annual worldwide progress report on the additive
manufacturing state of the industry.
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