Clear Colorless Functional Prototypes and Engineering Models Now Available at Express Pattern
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Express Pattern Prototypes, Made With WaterClear® Ultra 10122 Resin from DSM Somos®, Are Ideal for Medical, Packaging, Automotive and Consumer Products
The WaterClear Ultra 10122 resin has unsurpassed clarity, even in thick walls like the 6mm thick sample shown here
Express Pattern Inc, a leading provider of rapid prototype solutions for functional prototypes and investment castings and one of the largest US rapid prototyping services bureaus, announces that they now produce clear colorless functional prototypes, engineering models and accurate parts that simulate an acrylic appearance. Using DSM Somos WaterClear Ultra 10122, a clear SL resin, Express Pattern has the capability to produce prototyping applications such as lenses, bottles, fluid flow analysis, light pipes and clear packaging products.
With over 20 years of technical experience servicing the rapid prototype industry producing a wide range of parts, Express Pattern provides customers with unsurpassed resin selection expertise. Express Pattern offers one of the industry's largest Stereolithography (SLA) and Thermojet(TM) manufacturing capacity with equipment ranging in platform build windows from 10" x 7.5" x 8" up to the industry's largest 26" x 30" x 22". With 12 SLA machines ranging from Vipers to the new Viper Pro, the widest range of materials in the industry and dedicated project managers who service accounts from start to finish, Express Pattern responds to needs quickly.
Tom Mueller and Express Pattern partner Dave Flynn, leaders from the start and innovators in the growth of the stereolithography industry for nearly two decades, co-founded Express Pattern in 1999.
Express Pattern specializes providing rapid prototype solutions for functional prototypes and investment castings and produces high quality QuickCast(TM) and Thermojet(TM) investment casting patterns and functional prototype parts that are accurate, consistent, repeatable and have a superior surface finish. Express Pattern's recently expanded 20,000 sq. ft. facility in Vernon Hills, IL, has 12 QuickCast(TM) stereolithography (SLA) units and 9 Thermojet(TM) systems. Employing 25 highly effective project managers, engineers, and solutions specialists, the company also attributes much of its growth to its team of experts placing a high value on the people-side of Express Pattern's business. The team is known to go beyond the expected to assist Express Pattern's customers in developing procedures that successfully and reliably process investment casting patterns and prototype production.
To order a sample of WaterClear Ultra or for more information, contact Colin Fannon, Express Pattern Inc., 100 Fairway Drive, Suite 102, Vernon Hills, IL 60061. Phone: 847.996.6700 Fax: 847-996.6701 www.expresspattern.com
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1215 Washington, Suite 208
Wilmette, IL 60091
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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Cathy Westhouse
The NarupGroup
847.853.9400
cwesthouse@narup.com Tom Mueller
Express Pattern, Inc.
847.996.6702
tmueller@expresspattern.com
