Solid Concepts is one of the most technically advanced suppliers of rapid prototyping and manufacturing services in the world. Solid Concepts is a leading supplier of digital direct manufacturing of SLS production aerospace parts without tooling having secured multiple production contracts with components flying on both military and commercial aircraft programs. Solid Concepts is ISO-9001:2000 and AS-9100 certified with a stand-alone QA department offering CMM inspection capabilities. As the developer of the NyTek product family of SLS materials, Solid Concepts has analytical resources for polymer materials characterization as well as in-house capabilities for mechanical properties testing. Solid Concepts SBIR Phase-1 proposal is focused on researching technically significant polymer formulations and the associated SLS processing characteristics required to run them.
Keywords: Selective Laser Sintering, Sls, Direct Digital Manufacuring, Ddm, Rapid Prototying, Solid Concepts, Nytek,