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CONCR3DE: Rebuilding Palmyra Arch with 3D Printing
CONCR3DE is a Dutch company focused on using 3D printing to create environmentally friendly structures using their innovative technology and new materials. Some of their recent projects include recreating Palmyra Arch after it was destroyed by ISIS using their stone…
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CONCR3DE is a Dutch company focused on using 3D printing to create environmentally friendly structures using their innovative technology and new materials. Some of their recent projects include recreating Palmyra Arch after it was destroyed by ISIS using their stone material. Therefore, we had to sit down with the team and find out more about this innovative new company.
3DN: Introduce yourselves, and what CONCR3DE focuses on in the 3D printing industry?
My cofounder Matteo and I both have a background in architecture and design and we got a bit frustrated with how difficult it was to make unique, beautiful objects. Manufacturing right now can be very wasteful through for example using molds that need to be discarded, and a whole range of subtractive processes. We were looking for a way to make production cheap, clean, high-end and local. This is why we started CONCR3DE, a company that focuses on large scale inkjet 3D printing. We developed a new material for this process, a kind of stone. This allows us to print a strong, heavy material in a very sustainable way, as there is no polluting cement involved.
Through this, we can print very precise objects, with large geometric freedom, in a clean way.
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