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DSM SOMOS® STEREOLITHOGRAPHY RESINS QUALIFIED FOR USE IN SONY SOLID CREATION SYSTEMS
16 February 2004 - DSM Somos
| DSM Somos® today announced that its complete line of UV-curable stereolithography resins has been qualified for use in Sony’s Solid Creation Systems (SCS), available for sale in North America. All resins will be sold directly by DSM Somos. |
'We are pleased to be working with DSM Somos to offer our U.S. customers high quality resin materials for our line-up of Solid Creation Systems,' said Koh Nakata, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sony Manufacturing Systems America (SMSA). The line-up includes Sony's SCS-9000D system, which has the largest modeling platform available in the world with dual beam scanning technology. 'Sony's entry into the U.S. stereolithography market will undoubtedly foster some exciting new developments in both equipment and processing technology,' says DSM Somos Business Director James Reitz. 'We are very pleased to be working with them to deliver Somos materials to their Solid Creation customers, and welcome this opportunity to further participate in the growth of the stereolithography market.' Several popular DSM Somos products, including Somos 9120 and WaterShed™ 11120, have been used in Sony Solid Creation Systems in Japan for the last several years.
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About: DSM Somos
DSM Somos is an unincorporated division of DSM Desotech—a world leader in the development of UV-curable materials—and a member of the global DSM family.
DSM Somos is currently the world's second largest materials supplier to the rapid prototyping industry, providing stereolithography liquids and
selective laser sintering powders used for the creation of three dimensional models and prototypes directly from digital data. Somos' patented ProtoFunctional materials are used by a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, medical and telecommunications. DSM Somos has developed a full line of rapid prototyping materials that replicate the performance parameters of production materials, saving both time and money in new product development. From thermoplastic elastomers to polyethylene and polypropylene, DSM Somos has stereolithography and selective laser sintering technologies. The Somos business has been actively involved in the development of rapid prototyping materials since the late 1980s, from the introduction of the first commercial Somos stereolithography resin in 1992. DSM Somos is part of DSM Desotech, a leading innovative formulator and manufacturer of high quality ultraviolet and electron beam (UV/EB) curable materials. DSM Desotech is a business unit of DSM - an international chemicals and materials group headquartered in The Netherlands, with annual sales of EUR 8.1 billion and a work force of approximately 22,000 employees at more than 200 sites worldwide. DSM is active worldwide in life science and nutritional products, performance materials and industrial chemicals. The company specializes in innovative products and services that help improve the quality of life and DSM products are currently used in a wide range of end markets and applications such as human and animal nutrition and health, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, automotive and transport, coatings, housing and electrics & electronics (E&E). The group has annual sales (pro forma including the recent acquisition - renamed DSM Nutritional Products) of approximately EUR 8 billion and employs about 26,000 people around the world. Ranking among the global leaders in many of its fields, DSM is headquartered in the Netherlands, with locations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. |
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