Purmundus 3D Printing Design Award Winners go Beyond 3D Printing!

During Formnext, the seventh edition of the Purmundus 3D Printing Design Award took place. This year’s theme was Beyond 3D Printing and 38 projects and companies made it to the finalists’ list. Three winners were named, voted by an international jury of additive manufacturing professionals. The first prize was won by Stealth Keys, the second was awarded to the Hydrophytes project and last but not least, third place was awarded to Dr. Paul Schüler and Andreas Krüger for their monolithic combustion chamber of a rocket engine. Let’s take a look at the submissions that won the prizes!

Stealth Keys, winner of the first prize

UrbanAlps is the company behind Stealth Keys. The company’s mission is to create safer keys, manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion technology. When we met with the CEO and Co-Founder of Stealth Keys back in March, he told us: “[The Stealth Key] hides its mechanical security functions inside its structure, making it impossible to scan: the copy is therefore protected. Our objective is to transform a century-old industry that is used to drilling holes in metal sheets by offering an additive manufacturing solution.”

This is truly the sense of Beyond 3D Printing, technology at the service of innovation. UrbanAlps is involved in the production of high strength components for satellites, jet engines and gas turbines and has put its expertise to good use by creating high security keys that are unscannable and work independently of digital systems.