Timeline

2011

Acquisition of Marcam Engineering
Bloom Lamp Wins 2011 Red Dot Design Award!
Partnership in CMF surgery with Synthes
Launch of SurgiCase Connect
One_shot.MGX stool by Patrick Jouin now forms part of the permanent collection at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
Launch of DSM Tusk SolidGrey 3000: a revolution in stereolithography : Iris Van Herpen's AW11 "Escapism" collection brings .MGX by Materialise on the Paris catwalks.
i.materialise launches titanium, gold and silver
i.materialise Jewel Design Contest is big success
i.materialise on TedXkids

2010

Foundation of the Additive Manufacturing Branding initiative at the second CEO summit, held at Euromold.
Opening of the .MGX by Materialise store in Brussel, the world's first shop devoted to 3D printed design
Materialise USA hosts on Open House in its new HQ in Plymouth.
Magics 15 release
Materialise presents NeXt stereolithography material for parts with a high impact strength.
Celebration of 20 years Materialise
1st Materialise World Conference
Record number of 75 submissions for Mimics Innovation Awards 2010.
4th Rapid Implant Manufacturing Forum
7th Medical Innovations Conference
1st Clinical Innovations Conference
Materialise builds 3D replica of King Tut's mummy
Factory of the future: Materialise begins medical production in Plymouth, Michigan to meet increasing needs of the orthopaedic industry.
Release of Mimics 13.1
i.materialise launches architectural plug-in with Google Sketch-Up
I.materialise "Appear" lamp tells your story

2009

Launch of i.materialise
Set-up Materialise India
Launch of Mimics SE
Release of Mimics 13 and 13.1
Release of 3-matic 4.4
Set-up of partnership with SkyScan in micro-CT market
First wave Mimics Innovation Courses
Launch of Magics Metal SG
Local presence Industrial Services activities in Spain
Materialise creates TetraShellTM SL models by means of Mammoth technology to be used as light-weight investment casting patterns.
Expansion of material range with Xtreme and ULTEM 9085TM
Materialise makes components for several concept cars, e.g. Trabant n T
Active sales of RapidFit 'Fixtures
3rd Rapid Implant Manufacturing Forum in Schaumburg, IL
Materialise wins 2nd place in Desktop Engineering's "Change the World Challenge".
Launch of SurgiCase Online
RP4Baghdad handed over to Doctors without Borders
Launch of Mimics User Community
.MGX wins two Good Design Awards
.MGX launches the E-volution collection
Damned .MGX exhibits at the V&A Museum in London
.MGX and design studio KOL/MAC create the Root Chair: the largest item of 3D printed furniture made in one piece.

2008

Start VCRM product line in vacuum casting
Start scanning and measurement service in Japan
Commercial launch e-RP product line
New custom-built vacuum casting facility opened in Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic.
Expansion of mammoth centre with Mammoths IX & X
Espansion of FDM capacity towards 20 machines
Launch of
2nd edition Materialise Innovation Forum
1st edition Medical Innovations Conference - Vienna / 6th Mimics UGM
Set-up software development unit in Malaysia
Set-up SurgiCase guide production unit
Release SurgiCase CMF 3
Establishment of Materialise Austria GmbH
Local presence in Sweden
SimPlant OMS

2007

2006

Set-up Measuring and Scanning unit
Additional sintering capacity: EOSINT P700 machine
Expansion Stereolithography capacity with mammoth VI and mammoth VII + SLA7 + 1 medical SLA8
Investement in GOM scanner
Investement in Objet machine
First Stereolithography car presented at Euromold
Launch MGX One-shot
OnSite: Permanent 10% discount on online prototype orders
Patent litigation against Nobel Biocare
Start up Materialise Dental as separate company in the Materialise Group
Release SimPlant 10
Release Mimics 10
Release Magics 11
1st global business co-operation with an implant company: Astra Tech
Launch Magics e-RP Beta program
First RP Summit
First successes of 3-matic in CAE market
Release Facilitate
Set-up Materialise India
Local presence in Spain
Release Mimics SE
Start Mimics Innovation Courses