Therefore i.materialise offers all people with an eye for design and a head full of ideas the possibility to turn these ideas into 3D reality.
We empower them to create designs that enrich their life and to share their sense of beauty with the people around them, by adding unique touches to their environment, by creating a truly personal gift for the ones they love, by taking the opportunity to crystallize ideas they can truly be proud of.
With twenty years of experience, we bring high-quality 3D printing within everybody’s reach.
We exist to cater to demanding designers and inventors. This means that we will focus on higher quality and have more choices for designers. Above all, we aim to deliver high quality and reliability for which we can build on the experience of 1000 of our colleagues.
At the same, this experience, will help us making 3D printing more accessible. With our tools more and more people will have the opportunity to become designers and inventors.
I made a statue of my bird watching girlfriend and her dog with FDM (Fumbling Deposition Modeling), a technique by which you deposit liquid metal paste on a folded wire structure. (No computer involved yet, but a quite similar technique entered the market 9 years later to become the most selling additive manufacturing machine). While most at the party probably were not rating my artistic capacities very high, the gift was enthusiastically accepted.
Even better, nearly 25 years and 3 teenagers later, we have already consumed many coffee machines, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and even cars. In fact not many objects have survived. However, the personalized FDM gift is still proudly overlooking our kitchen...
Today, people play games with computers and express their creativity with CAD packages. i.materialise brings this virtual world to reality with the tools of professional product developers. We are extremely excited to see how fantastic results are achieved by our early users. Most of the examples are very personal items that will truly bring much more emotional value to everybody who likes to design.
- Fried Vancraen, CEO and founder Materialise -
Even those who never heard of Materialise have probably been touched by the work we perform here. Through our work with Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known in the popular media as 3D printing, Materialise is bringing great ideas to life.
With its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium, branches worldwide, and a staff of 1000 and growing, Materialise has been playing an active role in the field of Additive Manufacturing since 1990. In addition to having the largest capacity of AM equipment in Europe, Materialise also enjoys a stellar reputation as a provider of innovative software solutions. Its aim is to create a better and healthier world through involvement in AM for industrial and medical applications, and by providing bio-medical and clinical solutions such as medical image processing and surgical simulations. With a strong team of motivated staff working together in an open, dynamic environment, Materialise is able to draw upon an extensive pool of experience and expertise in the realization of this aim.
For more than 20 years, Materialise has grown in leaps and bounds, venturing into new fields and expanding its range of services and software solutions. As of November 2009, Materialise is also putting the power of Additive Manufacturing into the hands of everyday people. With i.materialise, an easy-to-use online service, now anyone can create a truly customized object, whether they are experts at computer modeling or beginners who are discovering 3D printing for the first time.
We are Materialise and we are all around you, making the world a better and healthier place to live.
Technologielaan 15
3001 Leuven
Belgium
