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'EMOTION IN MOTION' DESIGN AWARDS 2002-2003
16 October 2002 - DSM Somos
| DSM Somos® and the magazines NewDesign and Time-Compression Technologies have announced the call for entries for the ‘eMotion in Motion’ design competition for students and professional designers. |
Under the theme “ProtoFunctional® Safety in Travel”, the competition invites participants to challenge traditional concepts in industrial design, and explore the creativity and innovation made possible through the use of layer additive manufacturing technologies. The student and qualified designer competition categories are open for registration at from October 2002 through April 2003. Projects must be submitted by 20 June 2003 in STL electronic format, which will allow immediate creation of their digital design. The competition is oriented at exploring how advanced ProtoFunctional® materials and layer additive technologies can affect presentation and development in the design arena. ‘Layer additive’ technologies permit the 3D realisation of a design by building it in a sequence of layers, and thus are not restricted by the limitations necessarily associated with traditional manufacturing processes. Once associated exclusively to the rapid prototyping (RP) industry, layer additive technologies are gradually evolving into a rapid manufacturing industry, allowing time and complexity advantages to be applied not only to prototypes, but also to the realisation of the end product. In the near future, these technologies are predicted to permit significant cost and time savings benefits in a variety of manufacturing applications. Of significant interest to the design world will be the design freedom in terms of complexity of form and structure that will be achievable. The contest is open to students officially enrolled for the university year 2002-2003 in the faculties of design, industrial design or engineering in a college, school or university; and to all graduated designers, design engineers and engineers. All finalists will receive a three dimensional rapid prototype of their design. The finalist winner in both the student and designer category will each receive 5,000 Euro in rapid prototyping services, with an additional 2,000 Euro in rapid prototyping services donated to the student winner’s college or university industrial/ engineering design department. Participants must submit the CAD design of their projects in STL file format, which will be used for the direct 3D realisation of the finalist entries.
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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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