Topic: The untimely demise (?) of Solidator
This really bums me out. The Solidator is larger and (considerably) faster than the Formlabs Form 2 and seemed like a pretty sophisticated design, perfect for small scale mfg.
Hopefully somebody with vision and cash will white knight this thing.
Dissolving of tangible engineering USA Corporation
JACKSONVILLE, Florida. December 31, 2015
We hereby announce the voluntary dissolution of tangible engineering USA Corporation. The company was founded to bring the Solidator DLP 3D Desktop Printer to life in 2013. The company ran a Kickstarter campaign and shipped the units promised as well as sold and delivered another 40 units in the last year.
The Management of our company however was not able to get the Seed Capital required to expand business further for automation of assembly, expansion of marketing and sales teams world wide.
As our outlook for number of units we will be able to produce in 2016 is limited without this investment, we decided to dissolve the company.
The patent owner tangible engineering GmbH, Germany is further supporting all existing customers with resin supplies, vat repairs and other service requests. The plans for Solidator V2 and Solidator V2 Xtreme resolution as well as the prototypes are also all now part of tangible engineering GmbH.
Personally I hope that at some point in time the Solidator Version 2 we built will see the mass production market. The improvements we made in the support generation are released today as part of Solidator Studio V1.5 alongside a lot of other useful features. More resins are still being developed and will be made available by tangible engineering GmbH to you.
We want to thank all our customers for working with us in the past.
As indicated the tangible engineering GmbH mother ship will take care of all of you
and I will be personally available for your questions now and in future.
Tim Fischer, CEO tangible engineering USA Corporation