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Reduce and Rethink: How to Take a Proactive Approach to Waste Reduction with Additive Manufacturing

Iva Divic
July 05, 2021
How to Take a Proactive Approach to Waste Reduction with Additive Manufacturing

How can we reduce the waste in AM operations? In this article, we discuss waste reduction and our commitment to designing solutions that empower our customers to achieve more sustainable processes, materials, and resources.

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How is Materialise becoming greener? Through ISO 14001.

Elizabeth Boorman
July 04, 2019
Materialise becoming greener

Materialise’s Director of Quality Management, Risk and Compliance, Ward Callens, is heading a team that is using ISO 14001 as a system to reduce Materialise’s footprint. In the interview below, he describes the ins and outs of what this certification actually means, and the important role that sustainability plays at Materialise.

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The Mimics Innovation Suite Is Helping Researchers Study Hagfish Slime!

Radhika Dhuru
September 21, 2015
The Mimics Innovation Suite Is Helping Researchers Study Hagfish Slime!

Ever been fascinated by hagfish slime? No? You should be. This extraordinary goop can leave aquatic predators fumbling to detach themselves while the slippery hagfish makes a getaway, and also contains protein threads of remarkable strength comparable to that of spider silks. With those material properties, the substance could help develop a sustainable resource that could save our ecosystem: and our software program Mimics is helping researchers find out how the humble hagfish produces such a super-material on short notice.

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