A look at how 3D printing could become more sustainable through recyclable resins and new recycling business models. The speaker warns that technologies like Uber and Juul show why we need to think ahead about environmental impact before adoption scales up.
We now believe, we know that 3D printing is going to be big. And you know, so many businesses don't think ahead about the implications of their technology. You know, when you look about, you know, think about Uber and it was going to be a company that was going to eliminate congestion in cities and now it's causing a lot of congestion or you know, Juul was going to help people stop smoking and it started vaping and encryption was going to protect our privacy and it's now the domain of criminals. I mean just you have to think of the broad implications and for carbon, 3D printing is going to be big. We have to think ahead of schedule, ahead of time about environmental stewardship, right? So we've been able to now take that as an initiative out of the gates and think about our largest volume resins, Adidas, running shoes, dental models, and what can we do to make those recyclable? You know, you think about Invisalign like products, right? We make a model of teeth and you thermoform a sheet of plastic on it to make an aligner. And the 3D printed model is a single use plastic. It's used for 30 minutes and it's going to be landfilled for hundreds of years because it's a thermostat. Our technical team has designed a resin that can turn that back to liquid, a reversible thermoset. And we think we can do that for elastomer lattices too. And so if you can do that and you have a business model that collects those and doesn't rely on the municipal waste stream, but you have a business model that you bring those models back, you chemically digest it, turn it back to liquid and reuse it. So that's where we're going. That's a higher calling. And when every part has got a barcode on there, you can actually quantify maybe for the first time somebody's environmental footprint or recycling data driven. But you also get into lightweight parts, bio based feedstocks, local for local production, and ultimately avoiding inventory. Inventory ties up a lot of capital. A lot of parts are sitting in air conditioned buildings just waiting to be used. So you think about on demand inventory. And there's a lot of things on the environmental side that are really enabled by having a digital manufacturing platform.
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