About 3Dresyns, its origin and contribution to 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing
3Dresyns is an innovative online company specialised in the design, development, and made-to-order supply of safe, functional, and biocompatible materials for 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing. The company was registered in 2016 and launched online in 2017 with a clear objective: to expand what is technically possible in photopolymer-based manufacturing while improving safety, performance, and sustainability.
About the founder of 3Dresyns
Dr. Juan Segurola has more than 30 years of industrial experience. He is an internationally recognised industrial scientist with extensive experience across R&D, technical service, sales & marketing, and entrepreneurship. He combines PhD-level academic credentials with hands-on industrial expertise in market-driven innovation. During his early academic career he authored around twenty scientific articles on polymers; later publications were restricted to protect the intellectual property of his employers and, more recently, his own company.
Dr. Segurola is the sole founder, owner, and administrator of 3Dresyns, based in Spain. Over the last three decades he has held international senior positions in multinational and family-owned companies in research, development, sales, marketing, technical service, and applications of solvent-based, water-based, 100% solids, and light-curable photopolymer systems.
In his earlier career, he was Technical Service and Applications Manager at BFGoodrich (later Noveon; today Lubrizol) and received the President’s Award (2001) for best Technical Service Manager in EMEA.
Since launching 3Dresyns in 2017, Dr. Segurola and the 3Dresyns team have provided products and services to over 400 universities and 3500 companies in 50 countries worldwide.
From experience to a personal project
After more than a quarter of a century working for third parties (from research centres to multinational and family companies), Dr. Segurola concluded that building an independent project was essential to develop ideas without external constraints. He viewed 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing as a democratic revolution of the digital age: enabling anyone to become a homo ludens (playing human) and a homo faber (tool maker), because complex objects and functional parts can be manufactured with low investment and high creativity.
Entrepreneurship
In 2017, following extensive academic and business experience in photopolymer, solvent-based, and water-based resin systems, he launched 3Dresyns as a disruptive online platform dedicated to advanced 3D printing materials and services for Additive Manufacturing.
Creation of disruptive technologies & materials
Through 3Dresyns, the team has developed and commercialised a broad portfolio of eco-sustainable and functional materials designed to overcome common limitations of “state-of-the-art” 3D printing materials, such as excessive fragility and safety concerns, while enabling high resolution and reliable dimensional accuracy.
Explore the portfolio and key application areas:
- Core portfolio: multifunctional photopolymer 3D resins for SLA, DLP, LCD, Inkjet and more.
- Resolution & accuracy: high resolution, precision, and dimensional accuracy.
- Markets & end-use applications: overview of industries and use cases.
Representative application domains
- Hobbyist & product design: DIY, prototyping, modelling
- Jewelry & casting: direct investment casting
- Dental & hearing devices: dental, otoplastics / hearing aids
- Engineering materials: functional engineering
- Durable & sacrificial tooling: durable and sacrificial molding, sacrificial molds for injection molding
- Ceramics & metals: production of technical ceramics and metals
- Biomedical & bioprinting: biocompatible biomedical, bio scaffolds, bioprinting & tissue engineering, hydrogels
- Electronics & sensors: electronics, bio/pressure/temperature sensors
- ESD & safety materials: ESD compliant materials
- Security systems: security systems
- Space & aerospace: 3D printing in the space
- Microfabrication & lab-on-a-chip: microfluidics / lab-on-a-chip
For custom requirements and advanced applications, discover: custom designed 3D resins.
Disruptive technologies & Artificial Intelligence (AI)
3Dresyns has expanded its portfolio with new disruptive resins and eco-sustainable technologies, including biodegradable and high-performance systems engineered to compete with conventional plastics (e.g., polycarbonate, PEEK, nylon, polyurethane) produced via petrochemical routes and often characterised by very slow biodegradability.
3Dresyns sells online more than 500 basic product references (and other consumables, including SLS powders) which can be customised and multifunctionalised online with thousands of colours and up to four functional additives. This online design capability enables the creation of an extremely large number of made-to-order combinations.
The multifunctional offering is based on multivariate / multivariable, multiresponse, predictive, interpolative / extrapolative, and corrective AI algorithmic systems, designed to support online proof-of-concept and functional product design.
Learn more: multivariable & multifunctional 3D resins offering.
About 3D printing
3D printing is transforming the manufacturing of nano, micro, and macro-scale structures thanks to continuous advances in high-performance photopolymerisation resins and printing technologies. This evolution enables the fabrication of complex geometries with custom physico-chemical properties, from micro-scale features to larger end-use parts.
3Dresyns multifunctional photopolymer resins, including systems containing metals, ceramics, and exotic materials, are used across the most important 3D printing techniques.
From academic “ivory tower” to industrial materialisation
3Dresyns pioneers the translation of academic advances in functional and exotic materials into practical 2D & 3D printing products, including the selection and integration of a wide range of exotic materials into photopolymer systems and processable material platforms.
Read more: uni & multifunctional products.
3Dresyns consulting services
In addition to developing and selling advanced materials online, 3Dresyns provides consulting services to accelerate customer success:
- Printing consulting services to help customers choose the right 3D printing system, instrumentation, workflows, and training for their goals.
- 3D Resin Customisation Services for custom design of 3D resins for 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing.
- Technology transfer of synthesis & formulation for solvent, water based & UV & EB resins, inks, coatings and adhesives
3Dresyns portfolio for 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing
3Dresyns develops an extensive portfolio for nano, micro, and macro manufacturing workflows, covering a broad range of technologies:
- SLA, DLP, LCD printers
- Inkjet printers
- Viscous & Hot Lithography Manufacturing
- Nano & micro fabrication (photolithography / nanoimprint)
- 2PP resins for two-photon polymerisation
- Injection & casting resins
- CIM / MIM / PIM feedstocks and slurries for printed molds
- Nano & micron products for exotic materials
- Light-based bioplotting & bioprinting workflows (UV/Visible light and LED wavelengths from ~200–420 nm and above), including photo-curing heads at 365, 385, 395, 405 nm, etc.
- Volumetric 3D resins and multiwavelength 3D resins for dual-wavelength curing systems.
Objectives and impact
The goal of 3Dresyns is to develop cost-effective solutions for unmet market needs by enabling better, safer, and greener materials and production processes with lower environmental impact. A major part of this mission is realised through the development and commercialisation of ultra-safe biocompatible functional materials for professional, industrial, and biomedical use.
“3Dresyns offers a complete range of safe and functional materials with multiple properties, functionalities, and colours: from durable to sacrificial materials for direct and indirect Additive Manufacturing.”
Discover environmentally friendly materials: bio based 3D resins.
Safety approach
Many 3Dresyns products are designed with a strong focus on safety for handling, end users, and disposal, including materials that do not contain free monomers as supplied. Final suitability for a given end-use depends on the complete workflow, including printing settings, post-processing, and the correct selection of additives and auxiliaries.
Learn more: potential health problems of monomer-based 3D resins.
Collaborations, customers, and end users
3Dresyns supplies products and services to a wide range of markets and to more than 3500 customers in 50 countries since its launch in 2017, from home users to top universities and research institutes. In addition, 3Dresyns participates in projects under NDAs whose details cannot be disclosed.
Discover examples: companies, universities, and institutions.
As a result of extensive market collaboration, many publications have evaluated the technologies, products, and services offered by 3Dresyns.
Publications and external references
Explore: publications evaluating 3Dresyns and their contribution to 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing.
Example of a peer-reviewed publication using 3Dresyns water-soluble sacrificial resins: Patient-specific cerebral arteries molded as a flexible ghost model using 3D printed water-soluble resin.
As a private for-profit company, 3Dresyns classifies many innovations and trade secrets and does not publish them publicly. Read: 3Dresyns restricted publications.
Market analysis reports
3Dresyns is committed to designing and developing safe and functional 3D resins and processes for 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing. Discover references where 3Dresyns is reviewed as a global player:
- US 3D Printing Photopolymer Market Scope, Growth, Comprehensive Analysis by 2028 | Top Players: Stratasys, 3D Systems, BASF, Formlabs, Henkel, Prodways, 3Dresyns
- Discover more: market analysis reports