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3D Printing Firms Partner to create Artificial Hearts

Published on December 6, 2017 by Jamie D.
CARMAT

CARMAT, founded by cardiologist Alain Carpentier, is known for working on the most advanced artificial heart in the world. The company has just announced a partnership with 3D printer manufacturer AddUp. Unveiled on Monday, this collaboration is expected to accelerate the development of the CARMAT heart and increase production capacity. This aims to allow the manufacturing of these hearts on a wider scale.

Although AddUp currently sells metallic 3D printers, they will help CARMAT manufacture these cardiac devices. This marks AddUp’s first client in the medical sector, and highlights the opportunities afforded by 3D printing such as high levels of precision for parts in these hearts.

CARMAT

3D Printing Hearts: The Advantages

Though not much has been revealed, the use of additive manufacturing offers two advantages: the production of parts with “greater anatomical compatibility and surgical comfort”, as well as requiring less components.

We interviewed Addup CEO Vincent Ferreiro a few months ago on our French site here , who commented “As a pioneer in the development of industrial 3D printing solutions, we are delighted to be able to combine our unique additive manufacturing technology with a medical project as innovative as that of CARMAT. We have know-how in the accompaniment of our partners of the phases of opportunity to the industrial concretization of the concepts. Therefore, we are excited to be able to apply it, for the first time, to the field of health.

CARMAT

Recalling that CARMAT is also born of a merger with the aeronautical industry Airbus Group, Stéphane Piat, General Manager of CARMAT says: “The CARMAT project has been, since its origins, a perfect example of cooperation between the industrial and medical worlds. The partnership concluded today with AddUp is a new demonstration that allows us, in parallel with our ongoing clinical development, to anticipate changes in our industrial and technical needs in the longer term. With a partner as prestigious as AddUp, I am confident in our ability to accelerate our industrialization and secure our project.

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