3D-LINE on Combining Concrete and Plastic 3D Printing for Design and Architecture

There are a number of players in the concrete 3D printing field, particularly in the renewable energies sector. Among them is 3D-LINE. This is a brand of the company V-Concept, founded in 2017. It specializes in concrete and plastic 3D printing for the design, furniture and architecture sectors. We sat down with Frédéric Vigier, the President, to learn more about the specifics of the brand, including the particularities of its concrete 3D printing processes and how it articulates this with plastic 3D printing. Frédéric Vigier also told us about the different stages in the manufacture of 3D-LINE’s large decorative vases, as well as other use cases for its technologies.

3DN: Could you introduce yourself and your connection with 3D printing?

I have over 20 years’ experience in the plastics industry, where I acquired in-depth expertise in plastic injection molding. Over the years, I have specialized in industrialization and product development, while nurturing a creative passion for creating new things.

As early as 2005-2006, plastic 3D printing caught my attention as a technology heralded as a real revolution. Later, one of my objectives was to use 3D printing to produce large parts in small batches, and to achieve this, I sought to optimize productivity and cost price by using assemblies of plastic resins and mineral fillers within my own structure. Along the way, I decided to replace the resin with cement. This was in 2016 and concrete 3D printing was not sufficiently developed, so I embarked on an exciting journey where I had to build everything, to bring this vision to life.