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3D printing: life‑changing solutions!

The rise of 3D printing technologies, increasingly used for mass production, is driven by the development of high‑performance materials that provide new options to designers.

Arkema, with nearly 25 years of experience in 3D printing, is one of the world’s leading 3D printing companies. Its unique portfolio of solutions, fine‑tuned through connections with manufacturers of printing machines, printing software publishers and their customers, covers all additive manufacturing technologies. For consumer applications, two families of materials specifically address the expectations of designers: the UV‑curable liquid resins in the Sartomer N3xtDimension® ranges, as well as the Rilsan® Invent polyamide 11 grades, suitable for powder bed sintering (or laser sintering). Playing a complementary role, they give substance to a wide variety of objects and designs, many of which are already part of our lives: health, jewelry, sports, cosmetics, 5G and eyewear to name a few.

Our materials for 3D printing are found in many everyday applications, details of which are presented in the following pages.