Jewellery

The jewellery industry can use laser-sintering to industrialize the production of customized filigrees.

Sucess Story "FutureFactories"

With the Icon pendant, FutureFactories broke new ground by producing a limited edition of commercial products, each one unique but based on a common meta-design, thereby implementing mass-individualisation. The design is highly complex, comprising intertwining free-form shapes, and was implemented in titanium because it would be virtually impossible to produce by conventional methods - soldering, which is commonly used in jewellery, cannot be applied to titanium. The laser-sintered pendants are built fully-dense and polished to produce the desired aesthetic appearance. Lionel T. Dean summarizes the key benefit: “DMLS freed FutureFactories from the restrictions of the casting process and allowed the company to realise complex CAD geometry directly in metal. Now the first consideration is the form we want to produce rather than the limits of manufacturing." www.futurefactories.com