Orion Elastomers has been established to develop, produce and commercialise filament for 3D printing that is both tuneable to customers requirements and made from recycled tyre rubber and recycled plastics..

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Founded by Ian Shepherd and Giles Catchpole, two veterans in this space, Orion is based at C4DI and is working with the Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Bradford and the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada who developed a revolutionary process for the devulcanization of tyre rubber.

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Prime target market is additive manufacturing (3D printing) in architecture, automotive, design, education, engineering, medical, novelties, packaging, TV & film.