3D SELLS 10 SOLID IMAGING MACHINES TO ARRK.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA Valencia, region, Spain Valencia (välān`thēä), autonomous region (1990 pop. 3,902,429) and former kingdom, E Spain, on the Mediterranean. It now comprises the provinces of Alicante, Castellón, and Valencia. - 3D Systems Corp. of Valencia has sold 10 of its high-end high-end adj. Informal 1. Appealing to sophisticated and discerning customers: a high-end department store; high-end video equipment. 2. solid imaging machines to the ARRK Corp., which already owned 40 of the company's systems. San Diego-based ARRK uses the systems to produce prototype parts for a wide variety of Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. ARRK, with 16 offices worldwide, specializes in taking new products from design to creation. The 3D machines allow quick construction of three-dimensional three-di·men·sion·al adj. 1. Of, relating to, having, or existing in three dimensions. 2. Having or appearing to have extension in depth. 3. models from computer images. It is the world's largest model maker. 3D Systems' top-of-the-line SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. 7000 acts as a ``printer'' of sorts, transforming computer-generated images into physical models that can be held, evaluated and tested. The models are built with layers of plastic. The systems allow ARRK the speed to remain competitive, said Kazumi Araki, managing director of ARRK Product Development. ``Enabling technologies like solid imaging are becoming a requisite for reducing time-to-market and time-to-profit pressures,'' said Grant Flaharty, senior vice president of world sales and marketing for the publicly held 3D. The SLA 7000 machines sell for about $799,000 apiece a·piece adv. To or for each one; each: There is enough bread for everyone to have two slices apiece. [Middle English a pece : a, a; see a . A smaller imaging system, the ThermoJet, is priced at $49,995. |
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