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Europe’s leading 3D printing trade show,Formnext, has announced the winners of the2022 Formnext Start-Up Challenge。
竞赛设置以认识到整个行业最有前途的新兴公司的想法和创新，比赛经常阐明令人兴奋的技术进步。今年的比赛也不例外，竞争承认国际项目的重点是各种3D打印区，从按需粉末生产到可降解的植入物和机器人后处理。
“Every year, the start-ups in the AM industry take technology and application innovations to the next level and continue to impress with the rising quality of their developments and business planning,” said Sascha F. Wenzler, VP of Formnext organizer Mesago Messe Frankfurt. “Once again, these companies have showcased the great potential of this industry, highlighting the fact that the sector produces significant developments that, in the future, will influence our industry, medicine, and other areas of life.”
Formnext’s Start-up Challenge
随着3D打印的不断发展，FormNext启动挑战挑战可瞥见幕后的一些尖端发展。竞赛还为参与者提供了一个平台，他们可以在该平台上展示自己的技术，并在潜在客户和投资者面前提高业务知名度。
FOMNEXT的竞争点上了新兴的3D印刷公司，彼此之间的交易经验不到五年。获奖者是根据由行业专家小组提交的新颖业务理念或技术成就选择的，该专家今年再次包括3D印刷行业编辑Michael Petch。
除其他外，以前的比赛胜利者包括竖琴3D打印机制造商和2021 FormNext启动挑战赢家Azul 3D, post-processing system developer染色and 3D printing software specialist3YOURMIND。
Alongside the winner of the eighth 2022 Start-up Challenge, Formnext has also announced the results of the thirdAm Ventures影响力奖。对所有启动挑战参赛者开放，竞赛旨在认识并提高人们对3D打印创新所能激发的积极社会和环境变化的认识。
Introducing 2022’s challenge winners
According to Formnext’s organizers, this year’s winning start-ups were selected “both for the high level of creativity demonstrated” and the “viability of the business models” submitted, with each able to provide proof of existing or pending patents as well as demonstrating “extremely promising applications.”
One of these winners, Polish material developerAlpha Powders, has developed a technology for the pulverization, spheroidization and on-demand modification of polymer powders. Having scaled this process down into a prototype device, capable of processing polyamides, TPUs, or polyolefins, the firm believes it could become an ideal material R&D tool for labs developing SLS powders.
Dutch microprinting specialistPhotosynthetic, meanwhile, has won off the back of a technology it has developed which combines optical hardware, single-photon polymerization resins and computer algorithms. Putting these ingredients together, the firm has managed to create a rapid 3D microprinter, which in high-resolution mode (<1 micron), has a print speed of 50 mm3/小时
今年的另一个获奖者是Rivelin Robotics，这是通过开发快速加工金属零件的快速新方法而被认可的。由依赖机器学习（ML）和传统确定性控制理论的净形状控制软件提供支持，公司的Robotic Finishing Systemsare capable of automatically removing supports, while reducing cost, defects and variability.
Italian start-upSphereCubehas been selected as a winner by the challenge’s judging panel due to a composite bonding technology it has developed, that enables the 3D printing of high-performance composites into any desired shape. By curing plastics under heat, the process is designed to improve the wetting and bonding of layers, matrices and fiber reinforcements.
Last but by no means least, biomedical start-upLattice Medical由于它已经开发了一项技术，已被选为获奖者之一CHU Lille-France。Through tissue engineering advances, the firm has been able to create bioabsorbable, patient-specific bioprosthetics, with the potential to enhance the success of breast implant procedures.
Lattice Medical has also won the sustainability-focused AM Ventures Impact Award. As well as the innovative design and method of producing these ‘Mattise’ grafts, it’s said that AM Ventures was impressed by the way they minimized risk of patient rejection, the research presented to support their efficacy and the technical expertise of its developers.
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Featured image shows the Formnext Start-up Challenge in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo via Mesago/Mathias Kutt.
