PROTEOR acquires Filament Improvements

PROTEOR, a prosthetic and orthotic machine firm, has acquired Filament Improvements, a 3D printing options supplier for the Orthotics & Prosthetics (O&P) trade. With this acquisition, PROTEOR additional strengthens its portfolio of Digital Options – which now contains scanning, rectification software program, and 3D printing capabilities. 

“By buying Filament Improvements, PROTEOR is ready to supply the very best high quality 3D printers within the trade whereas additional elevating and streamlining the general digital expertise for our clients,” stated Edouard Archambeaud, CEO of PROTEOR. “We’re very excited to welcome Filament Improvements into the PROTEOR household.”

Filament Improvements’ premier printer – the ICARUS – presents clinicians superior printing functions, together with the manufacturing of definitive sockets – a serious development inside O&P. The corporate additionally presents quite a lot of filament choices, together with pellets and filaments of PETG, TPU, and CPX-KyronMAX. CPX-KyronMAX filament, a joint growth effort, has handed inner requirements to be labeled as a Definitive socket – a primary for the O&P trade. When mixed with the ICARUS 3D printer, this permits for Definitive prosthetic sockets to be printed in lower than two hours.

“We’re dedicated to offering our clients with essentially the most superior 3D printing applied sciences obtainable at this time – together with the highest-quality filament obtainable,” stated Mike Gorski, CEO and Founding father of Filament Improvements. “The PROTEOR acquisition will allow our applied sciences and supplies to achieve extra folks in additional locations all over the world. On this trade, I’ve realized quite a bit from our clients on how this course of must be streamlined for widespread digital adoption. PROTEOR, particularly with the ORTEN software program, will quickly enable us to attach all of our digital gadgets permitting for a streamlined digital workflow course of, a crucial course of that’s lacking from the trade.”