[INTERVIEW] Photosynthetic Formnext Start-up Challenge 2022 Winner

The 2022 Formnext Begin-up Problem Winners are chosen by jury on the lookout for enterprises which can be “new, inventive, viable, and above all, sustainable enterprise concepts from the world of Additive Manufacturing”.

This 12 months the winners are Photosynthetic (Netherlands), Lattice Medical (France), Rivelin Robotics (UK), SphereCube (Italy), and Alpha Powders (Poland). An additional award, the AM Ventures Influence Award, went to Lattice Medical.

You possibly can meet the winners in Frankfurt this week at Formnext, Corridor 11.0, D72.

Additionally, learn extra in our sequence on the 2022 Formnext Begin-Up Problem winners right here.

3D Printing Business: Please introduce your self and your organization? 

Dr. Alexander Kostenko, CEO & Founder, Photosynthetic: I’m a scientist who needed to learn to make a enterprise. I got here to the Netherlands in 2009 to get a Ph.D. in Utilized Physics, and after that made a profession between tutorial and industrial R&D. 

In 2018, I had an thought to reverse the method behind the computational algorithms that have been made to calculate 3D photos of objects in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) and to make use of them to make bodily 3D objects as an alternative. As a result of the 3D objects could be constructed utilizing photopolymerization reactions managed by mild, an organization known as Photosynthetic was created

3D Printing Business: What’s the drawback your corporation solves? 

Dr. Alexander Kostenko: On one hand, many new cutting-edge applied sciences rely upon our capacity to make constructions smaller and smaller. Then again, making complicated three-dimensional kinds at microscale may be very troublesome and costly – the constructions could be too small for the standard 3D printer know-how and too giant (and costly) for the nano-fabrication know-how. 

Examples of the brand new micro-scale merchandise are microfluidics used for point-of-care testing, drug testing, and drug supply, micro-optics utilized in sensors and in data-transfer know-how, and plenty of others. 

3D Printing Business: How does your organization match into the additive manufacturing ecosystem? 

Dr. Alexander Kostenko: We’re growing a know-how that may be seen as a really quick 3D printer that works on the microscale that has the potential to turn out to be the quickest and, on the similar time, essentially the most dependable 3D printing know-how of the long run. It permits a type of Additive Manufacturing (AM). We expect that it will likely be used along with numerous different manufacturing processes, each additive and subtractive, to create complicated merchandise. 

3D Printing Business:  What are your expectations and hopes from exhibiting at Formnext 2022? 

Dr. Alexander Kostenko: We want to discover events that would assist us with the industrialization of our future product, in addition to discovering buyer leads and buyers.

3D Printing Business: What recommendation would you provide to somebody contemplating launching a start-up within the 3D printing business? 

Dr. Alexander Kostenko:  Develop 3D printers that may attain the micro-scale! There’s a large demand for such devices, whereas the prevailing micro-3D printing know-how may be very costly and sluggish. The way forward for micro 3D printing isn’t restricted by the decision itself however by the capital price and throughput. 

3D Printing Business: How would you describe the roadmap to your enterprise over the approaching years? 

Dr. Alexander Kostenko:  We want to increase funds to show our lab-based prototype right into a serially-produced MVP in 2023. Initially, we’re beginning to produce the primary printed constructions in-house as a service for personal and public R&D teams, growing our buyer leads and growing the visibility of the know-how. In 2024, we need to begin promoting serially produced devices to tutorial and industrial clients. After that, we’ll deal with growing the throughput of the printing course of, which can allow the serial manufacturing of microstructures.

3D Printing Business: Is there anything you’d like so as to add? 

Dr. Alexander Kostenko: We’re engaged on a platform know-how which may be utilized in all kinds of high-tech purposes, and our launching clients will use the know-how for prototyping principally. Within the mean-time, we need to deal with a slim band of purposes within the biomedical discipline, optimizing the printer for high-throughput serial manufacturing of drug-delivery programs.

Study extra about Photosynthetic right here.

Meet the winners in Frankfurt this week at Formnext. Corridor 11.0, D72.

2022 Formnext Begin-up Problem Jury 

Kristian Arntz, CEO, Fraunhofer Heart for Networked Adaptive Manufacturing, ICNAP

Stefanie Brickwede, Head of 3D Printing Deutshse Bahn, Managing Director, Mobility goes Additive

Arno Held, Managing Companion, AM Ventures

Peter Mayr, Professor of Supplies Engineering of Additive Manufacturing, Technical College of Munich

Alexander Oster, Director Additive Manufacturing, Autodesk

Michael Petch, Editor-in-chief, 3D Printing Business

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