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Neuroscience meets design: 3D printing food-safe drinking bottles

Munich-based company air up has kicked off a new healthy drink trend by selling bottles that flavour water using a principle called ‘retronasal smell’.

03/08/2022 15:57:10

3D printing has played a key role in air up’s development process, both for directly printing prototypes and for producing rapid tooling for silicone casting to create food-safe prototypes. This has saved the young scale-up time and money, empowering it to enter the market faster.

In this interview, Tim Jäger – one of the five founders and current CTO of the company – talks about coming up with the idea, the technology, and how air up used its Form 3 and Form 3L stereolithography (SLA) 3D printers to create detailed functional prototypes to perfect the design.

Read the full article in DPA's August issue

Written By Sophia Bell

Sophia Bell is the Group Editor of DPA, Connectivity, and PBSI. She joined the team in 2020 as Assistant Editor after achieving a First-Class Honours BA in English Literature and Film Studies from the University of East Anglia. In her current role, she leads the editorial strategy, driving digital growth and ensuring each title continues to deliver trusted, relevant insight for engineering and manufacturing professionals.