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Japanese automotive supplier talks about new purchase of SLS® System for DuraForm® EX Black Material applications. Rock Hill, South Carolina, Sep. 25, 2007 - 3D Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: TDSC), a leading provider of 3-D Modeling, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing solutions, announced today the introduction of DuraForm® EX Black Plastic, a new Rapid Manufacturing material for its Sinterstation® Pro SLS® Rapid Manufacturing systems. DuraForm® EX Black Plastic is an easy-to-process, durable material that offers the toughness of injection-molded polypropylene and ABS and is ideal for a variety of Rapid Manufacturing applications. Offering users the opportunity of directly producing black-colored parts, this material provides users with more flexibility in design, while reducing secondary operations needed when painting a part. DuraForm® EX Black Plastic is non-sloughing, eliminating unintended color transfer rub-off to other surfaces. DuraForm® EX Black plastic parts built on a Sinterstation® Pro SLS® System overcome a traditional limitation of Additive Layer Manufacturing. The parts remain tough and exhibit very consistent mechanical properties regardless of orientation, including the "Z" direction. DuraForm® EX Black Plastic retains its toughness at -65 degrees Fahrenheit, or -54 degrees Celsius, a critical functional requirement for many aerospace and automotive applications. Its toughness and cold temperature performance are among the advantages to TS TECH Co., a Japanese automotive interiors supplier, who recently purchased a Sinterstation® Pro SLS® System to produce parts with DuraForm® EX Black Plastic. During Thursday's presentation at the 3D Systems World Conference, Takashi Takahara will talk about the reasons why TS TECH Co. chose 3D Systems' SLS® technology. With the addition of DuraForm® EX Black Plastic, 3D Systems now has three commercially available Rapid Manufacturing materials for use in its Sinterstation® Pro SLS® System, a Rapid Manufacturing system that delivers large parts with outstanding feature definition, surface quality and accuracy. "We are pleased to expand further the range of our engineered plastic materials for Sinterstation® Pro Systems," noted Abe Reichental, 3D Systems' president and chief executive officer. "Our customers have been asking us for injection-molding performance for a long time. The combination of DuraForm® EX Black Plastic and the Sinterstation® Pro manufacturing system delivers on that requirement."
About 3D Systems Corporation More information on 3D Systems is available at www.3dsystems.com, or via e-mail at moreinfo@3dsystems.com.
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