Forbes: 3D Printed Prosthetics? These Two Companies Have Partnered to do Just ThatNovember 29, 2019December 13, 2019 | The Essentium TeamShare The field of prosthetics fabrication is a unique mixture of art and science. “I’ve spoken with prosthetists who were cabinetmaker, artisans,” said Blake Teipel, co-founder and CEO of Essentium, Inc., a 3D printer and materials manufacturer in Pflugerville, Texas. “On the other side are the academic clinicians, from schools like Baylor.” (The Baylor College of Medicine hosts one of the country’s top programs for orthotics and prosthetics.) The academics have driven vast improvements in prosthetic function in recent years, while the artisans help guarantee the all-important fit to the remainder of the limb that’s being replaced. Now 3-D printing is helping with both sides of the equation.Read more: Forbes Share
The field of prosthetics fabrication is a unique mixture of art and science. “I’ve spoken with prosthetists who were cabinetmaker, artisans,” said Blake Teipel, co-founder and CEO of Essentium, Inc., a 3D printer and materials manufacturer in Pflugerville, Texas. “On the other side are the academic clinicians, from schools like Baylor.” (The Baylor College of Medicine hosts one of the country’s top programs for orthotics and prosthetics.) The academics have driven vast improvements in prosthetic function in recent years, while the artisans help guarantee the all-important fit to the remainder of the limb that’s being replaced. Now 3-D printing is helping with both sides of the equation.Read more: Forbes
The Essentium Team December 15, 2021TCT Magazine: Essentium CEO on Its Public Listing, Entry Into Metals & Polymer Portfolio DevelopmentBlake Teipel bursts through the door of a back office on his company’s Formnext booth, he apologises for being slightly late, cracks a couple of jokes with his colleagues, rattles through our 30-minute interview, glances at his watch and after a brief tour of the stand, is away to his next appointment. Read More
The Essentium Team December 9, 2021TCT Magazine: Essentium to Launch Powder and Sinter-Free Metal 3D Printing CapabilityEssentium is developing an extrusion-based metal additive manufacturing platform that will be integrated with its High Speed Extrusion (HSE) technology. Read More
The Essentium Team December 9, 20213D Print.com: Metal 3D Printing to be Integrated into Essentium High Speed Extrusion 3D PrintersIn its recent SPAC announcement, Essentium let slip that it was expanding from a polymer additive manufacturing (AM) company into metals. The firm has now provided details about what this process may entail, saying that its new metal AM platform will be integrated with the Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) technology. Read More
