3D Printing Biomedical Solutions Helping Healthcare Providers Improve Quality of Life Perhaps the most exciting — and compassionate — 3D printing biomedical application is helping the healthcare industry improve patients' quality of life. That may be through the design and production of unique surgical tools and guides to perform next-generation medical procedures, or the printing of customized ex vivo prosthetic limbs, orthotic devices and braces to return mobility and empower people affected by accident, disease or disaster. In either case, the Essentium HSE 180•LT 3D Printing Platform delivers unmatched freedom of design to create biomedical tools and orthoses with maximum precision and user comfort. Essentium offers a wide range of filament materials featuring exceptional strength and impact resistance to make the medical innovations of tomorrow a reality today. Key Applications Biomedical Devices Create braces and sockets mapped to each patient's unique physiology to attach prosthetic devices with the most stability, durability and comfort. Orthotic Devices Create custom orthotic devices with unique specifications and characteristics for the healthcare, sports and workwear markets. Jigs & Fixtures Design, iterate and produce unique tools and surgical devices for new procedures or individual patients. The HSE 180•LT 3D Printer Essentium's High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D Printer is designed for industrial production and performs to the level required in the most demanding manufacturing environments. Offering class-leading print speeds greater than 500 mm/second by utilizing a non-slip, high torque extrusion system and an all linear servo motor X-Y stage, the Essentium HSE 180•LT Series is the right solution for your application. The HSE 180•LT 3D Printer offers a wide range of high impact resistant materials including nylon carbon fiber filaments that are ideally suited for biomedical applications. Recommended Biomedical Materials Essentium PEEK Essentium PEEK is the highest performance material in our broad material portfolio. Find out more » Essentium TPU 74D Essentium TPU 74D is the highest durometer filament in our broad flexible portfolio. Find out more » Essentium PA-CF PA-CF provides strong, durable, and heat-resistant prints. BASF formulated, Essentium produced. Find out more » Essentium TPU 74D – Z Essentium TPU 74D – Z is a high durometer filament in Essentium’s electrostatically dissipative (ESD) portfolio. Find out more » Essentium PCTG – Z Essentium PCTG – Z is specially formulated to be ESD safe. It is an easy-to-print material with significantly increased impact strength when compared to PETG. Find out more » Essentium PLA XTR Essentium PLA XTR is specifically designed to solve many of the common issues plaguing current PLA offerings. Find out more » Essentium PCTG Essentium PCTG is an easy-to-use material with incredible surface finish, superior toughness, and chemical resistance – use it just like PETG. Find out more » Why Essentium? Essentium has partnered with Vorum, a leader in the development of prosthetics and orthotics CAD/CAM design technology, to replace traditional plaster-cast prosthetic molding with 3D printing. The co-development of an end-to-end process from patient scanning to the finished production of superior quality prosthetics and orthotic devices yields best-in-class results. As such, healthcare providers, orthopedic labs and clinics are able to do in minutes or hours what used to take days or weeks: provide better patient outcomes through more precise fit, faster turnaround and reduced cost. The Essentium HSE 180•LT 3D Printer is versatile enough to print a single prosthetic device for an individual patient, or to print high volumes of clinical-grade orthoses, braces, helmets and more. Leverage our experience in this compelling market to help improve your patients' quality of life through additive manufacturing. Request a Quote Request a quote of Essentium's unique 3D printing technologies today Request A Quote Essentium Blogs September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Additive Manufacturing & Aerospace: The Sky is the Limit Aerospace engineers are constantly pushing the envelope on aircraft design. Although the shape of a plane’s fuselage and wings haven’t changed much over the past few decades, the focus is now on squeezing every last drop of efficiency out of aircraft design. Read More August 24, 2021September 1, 2021 How 3D Printing Can Save the World…and Maybe Your Life 3D printing is an enabling technology. It empowers manufacturers to make parts that are lighter, cheaper, and stronger. Advances in additive manufacturing (AM) are making things more repeatable, more ergonomic, more possible. Essentium is a trusted partner of the U.S. Department of Defense, and I have seen firsthand how shrinking the half-life of innovation using technologies […] Read More August 10, 2021September 1, 2021 Best Materials for 3D Printing Flight-Ready Aerospace Parts We know that 3D printing in aerospace enables faster manufacturing of machine components and spare parts. It supports rapid prototype design and iteration and allows for parts to be made in any quantity and shape without excessive material waste. But AM’s biggest draw for aerospace is its ability to produce aircraft parts with equal strength […] Read More
Essentium PEEK Essentium PEEK is the highest performance material in our broad material portfolio. Find out more »
Essentium TPU 74D Essentium TPU 74D is the highest durometer filament in our broad flexible portfolio. Find out more »
Essentium PA-CF PA-CF provides strong, durable, and heat-resistant prints. BASF formulated, Essentium produced. Find out more »
Essentium TPU 74D – Z Essentium TPU 74D – Z is a high durometer filament in Essentium’s electrostatically dissipative (ESD) portfolio. Find out more »
Essentium PCTG – Z Essentium PCTG – Z is specially formulated to be ESD safe. It is an easy-to-print material with significantly increased impact strength when compared to PETG. Find out more »
Essentium PLA XTR Essentium PLA XTR is specifically designed to solve many of the common issues plaguing current PLA offerings. Find out more »
Essentium PCTG Essentium PCTG is an easy-to-use material with incredible surface finish, superior toughness, and chemical resistance – use it just like PETG. Find out more »
September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Additive Manufacturing & Aerospace: The Sky is the Limit Aerospace engineers are constantly pushing the envelope on aircraft design. Although the shape of a plane’s fuselage and wings haven’t changed much over the past few decades, the focus is now on squeezing every last drop of efficiency out of aircraft design. Read More
August 24, 2021September 1, 2021 How 3D Printing Can Save the World…and Maybe Your Life 3D printing is an enabling technology. It empowers manufacturers to make parts that are lighter, cheaper, and stronger. Advances in additive manufacturing (AM) are making things more repeatable, more ergonomic, more possible. Essentium is a trusted partner of the U.S. Department of Defense, and I have seen firsthand how shrinking the half-life of innovation using technologies […] Read More
August 10, 2021September 1, 2021 Best Materials for 3D Printing Flight-Ready Aerospace Parts We know that 3D printing in aerospace enables faster manufacturing of machine components and spare parts. It supports rapid prototype design and iteration and allows for parts to be made in any quantity and shape without excessive material waste. But AM’s biggest draw for aerospace is its ability to produce aircraft parts with equal strength […] Read More
