nasdaq mtls industry 3d printing founded 1990 founder wilfried vancraen headquarters leuven belgium area served worldwide number of employees 1000 website http www.materialise.com materialise nv headquartered in leuven belgium is active in the field of additive manufacturing also known as 3d printing . contents 1 history 2 software 3 manufacturing center 4 medical 3d printing & biomedical engineering 5 mammoth stereolithography 6 applications 7 see also 8 references history edit materialise was founded in june 1990 by wilfried vancraen as a spin off of the ku leuven becoming the first rapid prototyping service bureau in the benelux region . 1 what was then known as rapid prototyping is now known as additive manufacturing or 3d printing a three dimensional printing technique that starts from a 3d cad drawing and results in a three dimensional object manufactured in a wide range of plastics stainless steel titanium and a growing range of other materials . 2 since its foundation materialise has steadily grown and today has offices in many countries on five continents . major offices and software development centers are in belgium hq the united states germany china ukraine and malaysia . in 2014 materialise made an ipo at nasdaq . software edit following its conception materialise concentrated on the research and development of solutions for the transfer of data to additive manufacturing machines . in 1991 the company released mimics and in 1992 magics . mimics calculates surface 3d models from stacked image data such as computed tomography ct confocal microscopy micro ct and magnetic resonance imaging mri through image segmentation . magics imports data from cad formats and exports 3d printable files in the stl format . their suite of industrial software now includes data preparation and design optimization tools programs to integrate 3d printing into production environments and software and control systems used by machine manufacturers to bridge the gap between applications and 3d printers . manufacturing center edit materialise runs the biggest 3d printing service in europe . it encompasses over 130 machines producing more than 700 000 parts per year . offered manufacturing processes include selective laser sintering stereolithography fused deposition modeling multi jet modeling and vacuum casting with 3d printed casts . there are two types of web services associated with the manufacturing center . some industrial customers order parts for themselves whether prototypes or functional parts through onsite . on the other hand designers and small businesses can upload designs to the i.materialise 3d printing marketplace . medical 3d printing & biomedical engineering edit materialise is active in the field of medical 3d printing and biomedical engineering . main fields of application are surgical drilling and cutting guides and 3d printed replicas of internal organs such as the heart kidneys liver etc. based on ct or mri data . mammoth stereolithography edit materialise s patented mammoth stereolithography in order to build single piece stereolithography models with dimensions of more than 2 meters materialise developed mammoth stereolithography . the build area of the largest mammoth machine is 2100x700x800mm . applications include a replica of king tut s body based on ct data producing what could otherwise only be seen by unwrapping the mummy . applications edit the technology at materialise is being used by professionals in the automotive 3 aerospace consumer electronics consumables orthopaedic cardiovascular 4 cranio maxillofacial 5 and dental industries as well as in architecture fashion jewelry art 6 and more . see also edit 3d printing marketplace 3dlt list of 3d printer manufacturers sketchfab sculpteo shapeways treatstock thingiverse references edit society of manufacturing engineers . wilfried vancraen accepts rtam industry achievement award . retrieved 14 november 2011 . materialise . low volume manufacturing materials list . retrieved 14 november 2011 . barry keith 16 february 2011 . the secret world of printing concept cars in 3 d . autopia . wired . bongert m. mimics assists in investigating impact of aortic valve prostheses on blood flow . synthes . cmf customized surgical solutions . swengley nicole 08 09 2011 . new dimension 3d printing machines . the telegraph . check date values in date help retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title materialise nv & oldid 716388341 categories companies of belgium3d printer companiescompanies listed on nasdaqcompanies established in 1990belgian brandshidden categories cs1 errors dates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools 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