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ON EXHIBIT BY DSM SOMOS BATHSHEBA: “THE FINE ART OF PROTOTYPING”
30 September 2002 - DSM Somos
| DSM Somos® announces its support of the arts with a display of Bathsheba sculpture to be exhibited at the 2002 TCT Exhibition and Conference and the 2002 Euromold fair. |
Artwork by Bathsheba Grossman (Santa Cruz, California, USA) showcases the natural beauty hidden within symmetries that are traditionally far-removed from sculpture owing to their complex nature. Through the use of layer additive technologies, Bathsheba sculptures have mesmerized the art and design world, creating an interest that defies the barriers of the traditional prototype. Visitors of the exhibit at TCT will have a chance to win a Bathsheba signed original, “The Noom”, by participating in a contest drawing oriented at raising the perception of layer additive RP capabilities. Bathsheba describes her work as 3D meditations which highlight elegance and simplicity. The award sculpture for the Time Compression Technologies show is created out of the recently launched DSM Somos® WaterShed™ material, and then electroplated with copper and nickel metals by Repliform Inc. (USA), one of the featured speakers of the TCT Conference. The TCT event is recognized as the largest Rapid Product Development conference in Europe, and is the global benchmark as a meeting-place for product engineers, industrial designers and R&D professionals. Euromold is worldwide the leading trade fair for mold making and tooling, design and application development, and has a predicted 55,000 visitors and approximately 1,600 exhibitors from 45 countries forecast for Euromold 2002.
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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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