Tethon 3D reaches Kickstarter goal in 48 hours

Tethon Corporation Inc. (“Tethon 3D”) , a leader in ceramic 3D printing located in Omaha, recently reached their Kickstarter campaign goal for Porcelite Ceramic Resin for SLA/DLP 3D printing in two days. SPN caught up with Karen Linder, President and CEO of Tethon 3D over the phone to find out more about the product. SPN:…

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Porcelite Ceramic Resin is used to print ceramic objects used in art, aerospace and electronic projects. Photo courtesy of Tethon 3D.

Tethon Corporation Inc. (“Tethon 3D”) , a leader in ceramic 3D printing located in Omaha, recently reached their Kickstarter campaign goal for Porcelite Ceramic Resin for SLA/DLP 3D printing in two days. SPN caught up with Karen Linder, President and CEO of Tethon 3D over the phone to find out more about the product.

SPN: Congrats on your success with Kickstarter. What are you planning to do with the funding?

KL: The funding is going to assist us with wrapping up production and manufacturing the product.

SPN: How does the Porcelite Cermamic Resin work exactly?

KL: Well it’s a material, and you put it in a 3D printer that is enabled with a UV light or laser. The material is photo-curing and sensitive to the UV light and it makes it solid. Think about it as a liquid and when it goes into the 3D printer the light solidifies it.

SPN: Have any consumers come forward with ideas on how to utilize the product in an innovative way?

KL: There are a lot of applications for the material. It ranges from things like jewelry and art all the way to electronic and aerospace projects. There are a lot of ideas that people have that they want to test it for.

SPN: What would you say is the most common use for this product?

KL: Well the tethonite ceramic powder is probably used at least 50 percent for art. I would say this material is far more technical in its applications because it has a much higher degree of resolution. It’s more for the industrial use and manufacturing side of things.

SPN: How was the product developed?

KL: The product was developed over several months of experimentation using different 3D printers. We wanted to make a product that would work on any 3D printer that using Ultraviolet light technology. There’s at least a dozen of these types of printers now available for purchase.

SPN: What are the benefits of using ceramic resin rather than plastic resin?

KL: Ceramics can withstand high heat tolerances and changes in temperature, which is why it’s good for things like electronics or insulators. Plastic can’t do that.

SPN: What’s the big vision for the Porcelite Ceramic Resin product?

KL: The big vision and the reason we pursued this is because there is a large market of (3D) desktop printers that are affordable to the consumer for as little as $100 up to about $5,000. So it’s no longer restricted just to the industrial companies, it’s very affordable. The 3D printing market is really coming to the general public, and people have the capacity and the ability to acquire a machine now and we want to be able to provide materials to those people.

SPN: How are the oyster beds in Cape Cod doing?

KL: (laughs) I think they had some success. They were in the tidal pools all summer long. They went in around June and they checked them in the fall. There was some good growth of oysters. We’ll be following up with them again in the late spring to see how we can enhance and help them make improvements, and adjust what worked and what didn’t work. We’ll figure that out around March or April.

To learn more about the Porcelain Ceramic Resin product, check out their Kickstarter video below:

Melanie Lucks is a communications intern for Silicon Prairie News and AIM Careerlink.

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