New Castle, Delaware, Feb. 16, 2004—DSM Somos today announced that its
complete line of UV-curable stereolithography resins has been qualified for
use in Sony’s Solid Creation Systems (SCS), available for sale in North
America. All resins will be sold directly by DSM Somos.
"We are pleased to be working with DSM Somos to offer our U.S. customers high
quality resin materials for our line-up of Solid Creation Systems," said Koh
Nakata, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sony Manufacturing Systems
America (SMSA). The line-up includes Sony's SCS-9000D system, which has the
largest modeling platform available in the world with dual beam scanning
technology.
"Sony's entry into the U.S. stereolithography market will undoubtedly foster
some exciting new developments in both equipment and processing technology,"
says DSM Somos Business Director James Reitz. "We are very pleased to be
working with them to deliver Somos materials to their Solid Creation
customers, and welcome this opportunity to further participate in the growth
of the stereolithography market."
Several popular DSM Somos products, including Somos 9120 and WaterShed™ 11120,
have been used in Sony Solid Creation Systems in Japan for the last several
years.
About DSM Somos
DSM Somos (www.dsmsomos.com) is an unincorporated
division of DSM Desotech (www.dsmdesotech.com)—a world leader in the
development of UV-curable materials—and a member of the global DSM family. DSM
Somos' corporate office is located at: 2 Penn’s Way, New Castle, DE 19720,
USA, Tel. +1-302-326-8100, Americas@dsmsomos.info. For more information on DSM
Somos in Europe: Fax. +39 06 9871694, Europe@dsmsomos.info
About DSM
DSM is active worldwide in life science and nutritional
products, performance materials and industrial chemicals. With annual sales
(pro forma including the recent acquisition renamed DSM Nutritional Products)
of approximately EUR 8 billion, DSM employs about 25,000 people worldwide and
ranks among the global leaders in many of its fields. DSM products are found
in a wide range of end markets such as human and animal nutrition and health,
cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, automotive, coatings, and electrics & electronics
(E&E). DSM is headquartered in the Netherlands, with locations in Europe, Asia
and the Americas. For more information on DSM, log on to www.dsm.com.
