Impossible Objects
| Privately held | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | |
| Founded 📆 | 2009 in Northbrook, Illinois, U.S. |
| Founder 👔 | |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 21 |
| 🌐 Website | impossible-objects |
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Impossible Objects[edit]
Impossible Objects is a company based in Northbrook, Illinois, that is a technology developer, manufacturer, and service provider.
Technology Development[edit]
Impossible Objects has developed proprietary 3D printing technology that it calls composite-based additive manufacturing (CBAM).[1]
Briefly, CBAM builds objects from sheets of substrate, as follow:[2]
- Each sheet is printed with a fluid. The pattern that is printed is that of the slice of the object to be formed from that sheet.
- The sheet is then flooded with a thermoplastic polymer powder, which adheres to the area of the sheet that had been printed with the fluid.
- The printed sheets, or pages, are stacked in register in a build block.
- The build block is heated and compressed.
- Heating melts the polymer powder, which bonds the printed areas of the pages, thus forming the object.
- After heating, the unbonded portions of substrate are removed, usually by abrasive blasting or chemical means.
Carbon fiber is commonly used as the substrate material, as are Kevlar and fiberglass. A variety of polymers are used as bonding agents, nylon being used most commonly.
History[edit]
Impossible Objects was founded in 2009 by Robert Swartz.
Products[edit]
As a manufacturer, Impossible Objects builds and sells the Model One CBAM Printer.
It also sells consumables for the Model One printer, including substrates, print fluids, and polymer powders.
Services[edit]
As a service provider, Impossible Objects uses CBAM to create customized objects on request.
Awards[edit]
Impossible Objects has received the following awards.
2018:
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Excellence in Composites Manufacturing (Small Company)[3]
2017:
RAPID + TCT Exhibitor Innovation Award[4]
Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) Innovation of the Year[5]
TCT Technology Innovation Hardware Award[6]
2016:
International Nonwovens and Disposables Association (INDA) IDEA16 Long Life Converted Products Achievement Award[7]
2015:
TechConnect National Innovation Award[8]
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) RAPID Innovation Award[9]
Contact[edit]
3455 Commercial Avenue
Northbrook, IL 60062
References[edit]
- ↑ "'Impossible Objects' Become Possible With New 3D Process". advancedmanufacturing.org. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ↑ "3-D Printing Promises to Change Manufacturing". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ↑ "SME Recognizes Leders in Composites Manufacturing at AeroDef 2018". Cision PR Newswire. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "RAPID + TCT Exhibitor Innovation Award". Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
- ↑ "Illinois Manufacturing Industry Celebrates Fourth Revolution Awards". IMEC. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ "The TCT Award Winners". TCT Magazine. Retrieved 2017-10-01.
- ↑ "IDEA16: Creativity and Innovation On Display". Textile World. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ↑ "TechConnect Innovation Awards". TechConnect World. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
- ↑ ""Impossible Objects" Become Possible with New 3D Process" (PDF). AdvancedManufacturing.org. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
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