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New Albert Heijn Distribution Center Represented by Giant 3D-Printed Scale Model

Stephanie Benoit
March 16, 2017
New Albert Heijn Distribution Center Represented by Giant 3D-Printed Scale Model

Dutch company Vanderlande handles logistics automation, making processes in warehouses more efficient and streamlined. Imagine the warehouse of the future, with rows upon rows of crates that seem to know exactly where they’re going. When multinational supermarket chain Albert Heijn was looking for a new, automated layout for its main distribution center, Vanderlande stepped in to provide it. Materialise 3D-printed their highly complex automated distribution center with a scale model, so that they could clearly show their clients what the new system offered.

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Art Meets Technology in the New Hoet Cabrio SX Eyewear

Radhika Dhuru
February 15, 2017
Art Meets Technology in the New Hoet Cabrio SX Eyewear

“Innovation is my mission statement,” says Bieke Hoet, owner of the Hoet Design Studio. And you can see it in her latest collection of 3D-printed eyewear frames: Hoet Cabrio SX, launched at Silmo 2016. Designed in collaboration with the Belgian indie pop duo SX, this striking new collection features a radically new approach to eyewear design. Out with pinched angles and unflattering edges, in with organic design and fluid lines. Meet Cabrio SX, the newest work of art in the long-running partnership between Hoet Design Studio and Materialise.

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Realize on Materialise e-Stage: “Automated Support Generation Opened Our Eyes”

Kirsten Van Praet
January 10, 2017
Realize on Materialise e-Stage: “Automated Support Generation Opened Our Eyes”

Realize, one of the largest service providers of 3D-printed parts in the Midwest, USA, helps engineers, project managers, company owners and designers make high-quality prototypes with a fast turnaround so they can evaluate their product designs. Materialise software helps them get the job done and maintain the level of service expected by their customers.

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Aoyama Wins PME Export Trophy

Stephanie Benoit
October 25, 2016
Aoyama Wins PME Export Trophy

The Trophée PME Bougeons-Nous was created six years ago to reward local small and medium enterprises in France for their innovation, enthusiasm and energy. Last week Aoyama Optical France, one of our key partners in eyewear, took home the Export prize due to the high percentage of 3D-printed glasses they export outside of France. Their collaboration with Materialise has been part of a larger initiative to bring back eyewear manufacturing to Europe.

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Peter Marigold's 3D Printed Art at New York Art Gallery, Chamber

Stephanie Benoit
June 21, 2016
Peter Marigold's 3D Printed Art at New York Art Gallery, Chamber

As part of Chamber’s latest collection, entitled “Progressland” and curated by Andrew Zuckerman, artist Peter Marigold will be exhibiting his 3D Printed sculpture “Trunk”. Situated in New York, Chamber is a unique space in a city bursting with creative energy. A self-described “21st century cabinet of curiosities”, each collection in the art gallery is curated by a different artist who brings their unique perspective through the reliquaries, works of art and experimental designs they choose to display.

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New 3D-Printed Eyewear Collection Hits Stores!

Radhika Dhuru
June 20, 2016
New 3D-Printed Eyewear Collection Hits Stores!

Hoet Design Studio’s Cabrio G, a collection of sunglasses for design lovers, comes from a unique inspiration: luxury cars. The prototype of Cabrio G was unveiled at the Brussels Expo 2016, in the company of the Rolls-Royce and McLaren cars that had inspired it. Now that the newest Cabrio collection has just hit stores, take a look at what happens when inspired design meets innovative manufacturing.

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Setting Sail for the Seven Provinces: Materialise 3D Prints a Ship Replica

Stephanie Benoit
May 25, 2016
Setting Sail for the Seven Provinces: Materialise 3D-Prints a Ship Replica

Rotterdam-based design studio, & designshop, received a unique request. Founded by Elwin and Nynke van der Hoek, the design studio and shop was tasked with recreating the magnificent Seven Provinces galleon, a 17th century warship anchored in the Rotterdam harbor, on a scale that would just about fit in an office lobby. But building scale replicas of ships is a long, labor-intensive project, and doing so by hand can take up to a year and a half — whereas they had only seven months. The answer? 3D Printing! The result is this magnificent 1.5-meter-long model, designed by & designshop and printed at Materialise. Meet the Seven Provinces, and its 3D-printed scale replica.

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Materialise Featured in Manus x Machina: The Spring 2016 Exhibition at the Metropolitan

Stephanie Benoit
May 04, 2016
Materialise Featured in Manus x Machina: The Spring 2016 Exhibition at the Metropolitan

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is opening the doors to its 2016 spring exhibition on the 5th of May. Entitled “Manus x Machina” and curated by Andrew Bolton, the exhibition promises to be a rich display of innovative couture, featuring fashion powerhouses such as Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Iris van Herpen, Issey Miyake and Balenciaga.

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5 Things You Need to Consider when 3D Printing Wearables

Radhika Dhuru
April 28, 2016
5 Things You Need to Consider when 3D Printing Wearables

Far from its days as a niche technology, 3D Printing now accounts for more than 90% of the world’s in-ear hearing aids: and that’s just one example of how 3D Printing is making waves in the manufacturing sector across diverse industries. At Materialise, we’ve announced five major eyewear manufacturing projects in the past year alone, in addition to several 3D-printed fashion collaborations and other consumer products.

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Gripping Developments: Meet YuMi the Robot, ABB’s assembly-line android with Materialise-made grippers!

Radhika Dhuru
November 13, 2015
Gripping Developments: Meet YuMi the Robot, ABB’s assembly-line android with Materialise-made grippers!

If you want to visualize the supermarket of the future, you need the tools of the future. At the EXPO MILANO 2015, the Future Food District featured all kinds of new technologies working on different areas of the food chain. Among them, we saw ABB’s exhibit YuMi, originally designed to automate small parts assembly in the consumer electronics industry. And Materialise’s 3D-printed grippers are giving YuMi a hand. (For a deeper look into how we designed the grippers, check out our case study!)

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