PRINSOLES 3D AS FLEXIBLE AS SMARTFIL FLEX 93A

Prinsoles 3D is a French company based in Limours that began as an idea from his founder, Pierre Riggio, a podiatrist by profession, who discovered in 3D printing a solution to obtain 100% personalized insoles with a production that significantly reduces the time and costs in effort and work.

The manufacturing industry of insoles for podiatry treatments is dominated by traditional manufacturing, being a very slow process, which cannot be completely customized, since it depends on mass production or with a minimum order quantity, not to mention that the use of traditional materials leaves high levels of waste, which ultimately causes a harmful impact on the environment and makes it an expensive and inefficient process.

Pierre Riggio, through 3D printing, has developed an adapted and accessible solution with which you can have total control of therapeutic projects, increase profitability and substantial savings in time, while guaranteeing comfort and quality of their products, and talking about quality, it is essential to use materials that meet all the specific properties that each project needs and that is why the French company has trusted Smart Materials 3D, which supplies them with the raw material of each insole: SMARTFIL® FLEX 93A a material that has the ability to be stretched at moderate elongations and return to its original shape, with a hardness of 93A on the Shore scale, it also has the advantage that its flexible property is maintained at low temperatures and can be used in cold environments, which offers a very high level precision and suitability for each insole, achieving a 100% customized product.

We have invited Prinsoles 3D to be present at our exhibition at the 2022 edition of FORMNEXT in Frankfurt, as a success case because it is not only an insoles factory, it also offers a range of possibilities as flexible as the materials of its products and services because they also have a printing service adapted to home or office customers, where they offer plans so that every podiatry consultations can have total control with the printing process of their products, from the scan and design to the final product and If that was not enough, it also offers specific training to cover all points of the production chain, being aware that 3D printing is a new technology in this industry, that it offers many promises of continuous improvement and that many advantages have yet to be discovered like been hand in hand with the creation of new materials such as the one recently developed in the laboratory of the R+D+i department of Smart Materials 3D as our SMARTFIL® FLEX 98A, created to meet the needs of the sector, as well as research projects in development to create Intelligent materials with the new 4D technology filaments.

These two companies have an eco-responsible commitment, the insoles manufactured in Prinsoles 3D give their customers the opportunity to build an offer that reflects their values ​​and has an ecological alternative to traditional insoles, they are fully recyclable and do not produce manufacturing waste and Smart Materials 3D materials have the potential to be recyclable and reusable, so their ecological impact is neutral, 3D printing and orthoses have a promising future, and it can already be predicted that they, eventually will displace over time the old and inefficient manufacturing methods.