Engineer Kai Parthy is hugely responsible for the boom in 3D printing filaments we’ve been experiencing over the past few years. With the 2012 invention of Laywoo-D3, a composite of sawdust and copolyesters, Kai transformed the desktop 3D printing scene from being looked at as a world of plastics to a world of infinite possibility. After all, if you can 3D print wood, what can’t you 3D print?
Since then, endless manufacturers have taken his invention and mass produced it under their own label, while Kai works tirelessly on inventing new 3D printing materials, including stone-like, ceramic, transparent, and spongy filaments to fulfill a huge variety of applications. …
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