rpla
- März 13, 2025
The story of Slimprint
x colorFabb rPLASlimprint transforms recycled plastic into unique home decorations. Erwin Boxen – designer and founder of Slimprint – creates vases that stand out due to their distinctive shapes, textures, and color combinations. Their designs complement various interior styles, with reused materials always forming the foundation of our creations.
“3D printing offers immense design freedom and allows us to produce on a small scale and on demand, without the need for large inventories.”
Slimprint can create forms that are difficult to achieve with traditional techniques, such as Voronoi structures or geometric patterns.
Slimprint offers customization, ensuring that their products perfectly match their customers’ interior styles.
Why does Slimprint use recycled PLA?
Slimprint primarily works with rPLA from ColorFabb. They believe in responsible production, which is why they use materials that are both recycled and plant-based.
“We chose ColorFabb because
- Februar 20, 2025
COLORFABB'S BIODEGRADABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FILAMENTS
CIRCULAR MATERIALS DESIGNED BY NATURE
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHAs) polymer filament is a material made and eaten by micro organisms (bacteria). PHA is often called the sleeping giant of polymers. It provides a unique opportunity as a solution for reducing greenhouse gases, environmental plastics pollution, and establishing a circular economy.
Our filament allPHA is made out of natural materials as a replacement for traditional petrochemical plastics. One could label this material as bioplastics and biopolymers. They are based on various PHA building blocks.
allPHA is 100% biodegradable and since it is a fully natural material, produced through bacterial fermentation, it contains no microplastics.
With sustainability and circularity at the top of our priorities, we can say we have created a material for additive manufacturing which not only delivers a great material to print with, but is also good for the environment.
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