Begun as a joint venture with the University of Leuven-Belgium, Materialise was one of the first European rapid prototyping service bureaus. It has since grown into a European supplier of plastic prototype solutions, and today is a worldwide leader in the rapid prototyping industry. Materialise offers a broad range of rapid prototyping, tooling and digital CAD software. In addition, Materialise prototypes and software have established a reputation in medicine and dentistry, with clinicians the world over using them in the most complex surgical cases. Its design products division concentrates on the development of rapid manufacturing. The company is privately owned with several subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the USA, and employs over 400 people in its 4 divisions. Dental Division became a separate company - Materialise Dental - in 2006.

• Materialise Industrial Services to "materialise" technical prototypes and small series through the most advanced prototyping and tooling techniques.
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• Materialise Software to develop the technical software applications that allow a more efficient use of the rapid prototyping techniques.
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• Materialise Medical to create medical models using these prototyping techniques and to develop medical software packages that are used by clinicians worldwide to assist them in the most complex cases of surgery.
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• Materialise.MGX to manufacture design products for the end-user market. MGX is the youngest division and it draws on the knowledge and expertise of the prototyping division.
   
• Materialise Dental offers a range of products and services to aid dental specialists in the treatment of their patients.

 Materialise Industrial Services

Materialise Industrial Services offers a whole range of technologies to assist product developers in designing the perfect product. Prototypes have become the basis for the entire process that precedes a product's introduction to the market. The past decades have witnessed a need for new manufacturing technologies that build parts on a layer-by-layer basis (3D printing). These 3D printing techniques reduce manufacturing time for parts - even the most complex ones - from days, weeks or months to hours. We don't call it RAPID for nothing. Rapid prototyping has revolutionized the product development sector, and Materialise is one of the prime movers behind that revolution.

Materialise Software

Materialise Software develops innovative software applications for enabling and optimizing the advanced use of rapid prototyping (RP), tooling and manufacturing techniques. Whether it's STL file handling and manipulation, preparation for rapid prototyping, tool design, 3D CAD communication, design optimisation or even reverse engineering, our software equips customers to accomplish their most challenging tasks with ease. Materialise Software offers a wide range of activities applicable in a variety of markets and industries. Its SDS department develops customised, integrated software applications. Our highly automated solutions boost efficiency and reduce lead-times, resulting in increased productivity within entire processes.

Materialise Medical

Materialise Medical provides high quality solutions supporting clinicians in diagnosis and decision-making. In the digital age, computers and information technology have become a critical factor in reducing costs and improving efficiency in medical environments.

Materialise can look back on more than 10 years' experience in medical imaging software, in which it provided surgeons with the most detailed and precise virtual 3D models available. Implant placement and surgery simulation packages offer increased opportunities for developing state-of-the art techniques for minimally invasive procedures. Clinicians around the world use rapid prototyping models and templates created by Materialise software to assist them in the most complex surgical cases.

Materialise MGX

Having revolutionized product development, Materialise is now giving the design world a thrill by offering esthetic innovative solutions for this age of information and global digital access. We came up with a completely new division and market approach and designed a new label for it: Materialise.MGX. The label combines art and technology by drawing on our proven experience in the high-tech arena of 3D printing techniques like stereolithography, selective laser sintering and fused deposition modeling.

Today's designers dream of the challenge of watching products transform from the intangible existence of virtual imagery into material reality. Materialise manufactures products derived from 3D graphic animation software. Thanks to advanced mathematical modifiers, this software enables designers to realize complex forms never before achieved in CAD. (Designers gain even more freedom through dismissal of the usual production requirements.)

Materialise Dental

Materialise Dental holds a strong technological position in medical image processing, surgery simulation, rapid prototyping. Branded under the SimPlant name is an entire range of solutions for Computer Guided Implantology. The SimPlant Platform includes the SimPlant treatment software, a variety of surgical guides, including bone-supported guides, collaboration with a global network of scan sites and much more. A worldwide support channel and a “SimPlant Academy” have been established to make implant surgery even more successful. The SimPlant Platform offers its users worldwide an open and complete platform.

Worldwide presence

Materialise targets its software to a global market: Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Originally, its prototyping activities were tailored more towards Europe, and include all large companies in the automotive, consumer electronics and consumables sectors. Its medical products are used worldwide by famous hospitals, research institutes and clinicians. Unique design shops all over the world rely on Materialise.MGX.