Xkelet (plaster substitute)

2019: Start of sales

At the end of December, 2019 the Spanish company Xkelet put on the market plaster substitute at slight fractures which is printed on the 3D-printer. Substitute of a plaster cast Xkelet is waterproof, the nagger does not cause, easily acts and can be reused that excludes costs of time and funds for repeated processing.

As it is specified in the press release, thanks to the patented Red Dot Award technology which uses 3D - printing, plaster casts can consign to the past — at least, so far as concerns stretchings or slight fractures. Castings of Xkelet are printed on the 3D-printer from special plastic of different flowers and less than 100 grams weigh. At the same time biodegradable material is used.

Xkelet put on the market plaster substitute at slight fractures which is printed on the 3D-printer

Xkelet not the first company developing custom 3D-printing castings, but it for the first time could scale the offered technology. It is connected with the fact that the startup uses the proprietary application for iPad, but not the expensive equipment for 3D - scanning. Printing process of a mold takes about two hours, but finally developers hope to accelerate it up to 12–30 minutes.

Castings of Xkelet can be removed and reused thanks to the mating rings which are built in construction. Besides, castings are developed so that they could be removed only using a special tool. It can be useful at an immobilization of fractures and stretchings at children or at other persons which can accidentally remove a bandage.

Castings are already available to treatment of injuries of a wrist and a brush on sale in the USA, and devices for an immobilization of other areas of a body are in development.

We are going to release casting on all hand which is raised above an elbow and also casting against a foot and an anklebone. They will allow to immobilize an extremity at injuries of a forearm and foot/anklebone respectively — developers explained.[1]

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