ThreeD Materials
A New York-based 3D printing company is expanding its focus from education and the delivery of lesson plans, to give greater attention to materials and polymers.
Since 2015, ThreeD Materials has supported over 100 schools in the U.S. to either implement a new 3D printing program or advance one already in place. And due to a ‘surging interest’ in advanced materials from the company’s customer base, ThreeD Materials has decided to expand its scope and concentrate more thoroughly on the materials within the 3D printing space.
As such, ThreeD Materials has decided to expand its business from basic 3D printing materials and educational consulting, to now cover industrial strength additive manufacturing polymers.
“When we started this company years ago, the primary emphasis was serving the needs of our customers in the educational sector,” said Zachary Lichaa, ThreeD Materials’ President. “The goal was to ensure that teachers and students had the tools they needed to successfully leverage 3D printing for their learning needs. That still rings true today.
“However, to meet the evolving needs of our customers, we have decided to offer a full stack of advanced 3D printing filaments and polymers for FFM/ FDM technology.”
3D Printing Materials Now Offered by ThreeD Materials
3D Printing Materials Now Offered by ThreeD Materials
The company’s development sees the introduction of five new materials. These include Nylon 230, the first nylon filament to print at 230 degrees Celsius; Nylon 645, which boasts strength and elasticity, while being lighter than ABS and PLA; and Nylon 680 an FDA food and beverage compliant nylon filament. Additionally, ThreeD Materials now offers Alloy 910, a very high-performance material favoured in the production of drones, and Bridge Nylon, which combines the price of ABS and PLA, while possessing similar durability to nylon. Since the 3D printing industry continues to grow and innovators continue to develop new solutions, ThreeD Materials believes it must keep, and make sure its customers do too.
Lichaa expands: “Our customers are no longer just printing with basic plastics and following lesson plans. They are experimenting with RC cars, drones, and creating musical instruments. We are extremely excited that high performance materials for 3D printing can serve as a catalyst for the next generation of advanced manufacturing in America, and we plan to serve that customer base.”
The addition of these advanced material supplements an already existing array of filaments, 3D printing platforms, lesson plans, curriculums and customer support that the company has offered since its foundation in 2015. This includes PLA and ABS filaments, flexible materials, science and engineering modules for K-12 education and WiFi and cloud-based 3D printing systems.
“We believe 2017 is a year in which materials science and 3D printers are working together to change the design paradigm at Fortune 100 companies and inside the garages of engineers across the world,” Lichaa concludes. “That growing list of interested parties needs reliable expertise to go along with their acquisition of filaments for 3D printing, and ThreeD Materials is happy to serve.”
