AmeraLabs

3D printing – is an innovative additive manufacturing process that allows to create products that cannot be produced by traditional manufacturing technology. Due to the speed of production and the relatively low initial cost, 3D printing has so far been chosen for the creation of the prototypes. Today, however, 3D printing is used more and more rarely in prototype production alone, and this technology is increasingly being used to produce realistic, functional final products.

Stereolithographic / optical 3D printing technologies are currently gaining momentum in the market. This allows you to print much more accurately than the technology currently reigning in the market, which extracts objects by melting plastics (FDM).

Optical / stereolithographic 3D printing allows you to print extremely high-resolution objects (the thickness of the layer is only 0.025-0.050 mm). In many cases, SLA operates even faster than the dominant FDM technology, especially when it comes to producing several products at once. Moreover, the SLA method easily produces a variety of small components that cannot be qualitatively produced by FDM.

However, SLA technology has its minuses, with the major being high cost of printing materials and poor selection. The entire 3D printing world is moving towards the printing of functional details, but SLA printers still don’t have the proper materials to produce these functional parts.

In order to solve this problem, i.e. the lack of functional SLA materials, the AmeraLabs team has developed functional materials for SLA, DLP and LCD / LED based printers. These materials can be characterized by mechanical properties that allow you to print / produce functional products everyday. The essence of our innovation is the efficient usage of raw materials, catalysts and additives while designing and manufacturing these materials.

As of now, the team has already developed 4 different products, two of which, IPR-12 and IPR-10, are specially designed for printing hard functional products. The other two products, AMD-6 and AMD-3, are for artistic prints, models, and similar applications, when there is no need for very good mechanical properties. Products are already sold and shipped to 22 countries worldwide. The clients appreciate the IPR-12 and AMD-3 resins the most. The latter is for artistic prints and is currently one of the best materials on the market that can be adapted to LCD / LED printers.

The IPR-12 material is intended for DLP-type printers, and is characterized by extraordinary strength, which is further enhanced by the flexibility of the material obtained.