Medical Additive Manufacturing
Develop Faster. Validate With Confidence.
Scale With Flexibility.
3D printing backed by engineering, inspection, and production experience.
Faster Development
Application-Specific Materials
Flexible Production
In medical product development, you need to move fast without losing sight of performance, repeatability, usability, documentation, or the people who’ll ultimately depend on your product. Additive gives your development and manufacturing teams a flexible way to go from early concepts to functional hardware and repeatable low-volume production.
We work with medical device companies, life science organizations, laboratories, healthcare innovators, and manufacturing teams on prototypes, test fixtures, anatomical and training models, manufacturing aids, equipment components, and qualified production applications.
A Flexible Partner For Medical Innovation
From Concept to Production
Medical and life science programs usually involve lots of design changes, complex geometry, custom features, controlled documentation, and volumes that don’t justify conventional tooling. Additive can shorten the path from idea to functional parts while keeping you flexible as requirements evolve.
We run selective laser sintering and polymer powder bed fusion (SLS/PBF), vat photopolymerization (SLA/VPP), and material extrusion (MEX), so we can match the process and material to your part’s functional, dimensional, cosmetic, and documentation needs, instead of forcing every project onto one technology.
Where We Can Help
Product development
Form, fit, and function prototypes, ergonomic studies, design-verification hardware, and iterative test components.
Medical and laboratory equipment
Housings, brackets, ducts, covers, handles, adapters, fluid-routing concepts, and complex equipment components.
Anatomical and training models
Patient-specific or representative models for education, procedural planning, demonstrations, and device evaluation.
Manufacturing support
Assembly fixtures, inspection aids, custom trays, protective nests, line-side tools, and production tooling.
Low-volume production
Specialized components, bridge production, product variants, and parts for applications where hard tooling is difficult to justify.
Replacement and service parts
Digitally stored components and practical replacement options for equipment with obsolete or unavailable parts.
The Right Process For The Application
Multiple Polymer Technologies
Not sure which process fits? That’s our job.
SLS/PBF
makes tough engineering-polymer parts and complex shapes without support structures.
SLA/VPP
is great for fine features, smooth surfaces, transparent or specialized resins, models, and tooling.
MEX
is fast, works with a wide range of thermoplastics, and handles manufacturing aids and larger parts.
We’ll look at your use environment and requirements, then walk you through the tradeoffs before recommending a path.
Improve Function Through Design Freedom
Design for Additive Manufacturing
Additive lets you design features that are tough to mold or machine: complex internal passages, organic surfaces, built-in routing, lattice structures, and consolidated assemblies. That can make your product easier to use while cutting the number of parts you have to buy, track, and assemble.
Got an assembly made from several conventionally manufactured pieces? It might be redesigned as a single printed part, which could mean fewer fasteners, less inventory and assembly labor, fewer leak paths, and fewer points of failure.
Engineering Opportunities
- Part consolidation and reduced assembly complexity.
- Ergonomic forms and application-specific features.
- Integrated ducts, channels, guides, and mounting points.
- Lightweight structures and material-efficient geometry.
- Reduced tooling and inventory requirements.
- Customization without dedicated tooling for every variant.
Accelerate Development And Testing
Move from CAD to Hardware Faster
Before you commit to production tooling, you need to know how your design handles usability, assembly, equipment integration, and performance. We help you get from CAD to hardware fast, so your stakeholders can hold, test, and compare designs earlier.
You can build, evaluate, and revise multiple configurations before freezing the design. That’s especially valuable for new devices, lab equipment, human-factors studies, clinical training tools, and anything where feedback can make the final product meaningfully better.
Support Low-Volume And Legacy Parts
Manufacture What Is Difficult to Source
Medical and lab equipment often includes specialized parts made in small quantities. And manufacturers may need to support installed equipment long after the original tooling, inventory, or suppliers are gone.
Additive gives you a practical option for low-volume, bridge, and replacement parts without new molds or big inventories. Send us the existing part, a drawing, a CAD file, or a physical sample, and we’ll tell you honestly whether additive is a viable path.
Engineering And Manufacturing Support
More Than a Print Service
A good medical-industry part takes more than picking a material and hitting print. We look at the whole application: loads, operating temperature, chemical and cleaning exposure, dimensions, surface finish, installation environment, inspection, quantity, expected service conditions, and any biological or regulatory considerations that apply.
Application and manufacturability reviews
Design for additive manufacturing
Process and material selection
Prototype and first-article production
Dimensional inspection
Mechanical testing
Post-processing and surface finishing
Process documentation and traceability
Repeat production planning
Quality Matched To Your Application
Quality and Qualification
Concept models, manufacturing aids, external equipment components, patient-contacting parts, and regulated medical devices all come with very different requirements. We’ll work with you to sort out the documentation, traceability, inspection, testing, cleaning, and qualification your part actually needs.
Material supplier data, including biocompatibility or sterilization information where available, does not by itself qualify a finished device for a specific medical use. The device manufacturer remains responsible for determining applicable regulatory requirements and validating the complete design, manufacturing process, post-processing, cleaning, packaging, sterilization, and end-use performance. These needs should be identified at the beginning of the project.