News: Materialise blend organic beauty and modern technology

Materialise UK Ltd has used their expertise in Additive Layered Manufacturing to produce the intricately designed trophies that were presented to the winners of the recent Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011 awards.

Based on the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham, Materialise UK, has the largest capacity of rapid prototyping equipment in Europe.

The trophies were a creation of the London-based artist Ross Lovegrove who has worked with Materialise on numerous projects. Ten trophies that blend "organic beauty and modern technology" were manufactured using the selective laser sintering methods.

Philip Hudson, Managing Director of Materialise UK said: "We were pleased to be contacted by Ross (Lovegrove), and are delighted to produce the trophies for such a globally significant design award competition.

"The intricacies and detail of the design gave us a great opportunity to showcase the capabilities of our additive manufacturing processes, and demonstrate that our world-leading technology can allow truly unique one-off pieces and short production runs to be accurately and cost-effectively produced."

The advantages of additive manufacturing have been used by Materialise to develop unique solutions that make a world of difference for its many customers with their prototyping as well as production needs. These customers range from large companies in the automotive, consumer electronics and consumables sectors; to famous hospitals, research institutes and clinicians.

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