DGAP-News: Alphaform AG: New online shop for customized art and design works: Artshapes will be pioneer for high-quality 3D objects
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Alphaform AG: New online shop for customized art and design works:
Artshapes will be pioneer for high-quality 3D objects
21.10.2013 / 10:01
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New online shop for customized art and design works:
Artshapes will be pioneer for high-quality 3D objects
- Alphaform and Tiburon announce joint venture
- Creation of an online shop for high-quality sculptures and artworks
- Professional additive manufacturing by leading prototyping company
- New sales channel for renowned artists and designers
Feldkirchen, 21.10.2013 - Alphaform AG (WKN 548795), specialist for
additive manufacturing, and Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH - a seed
investor specialized in Internet companies - agreed to establish a joint
venture for online sales and additive manufacturing of high quality art and
design works, even in limited edition. For this purpose, both companies
signed on 10th October 2013 a correspondent Joint Venture Agreement. The
new company named 'Artshapes' is supposed to operate firstly in the
German-speaking region. Further European countries will be added later.
Tiburon shareholder Daniel Wild is also CEO of the Ecommerce Alliance AG
(WKN A1C9YW), which provides services for the construction, operation and
marketing of the Artshapes website.
The core of Artshapes will be an online shop in which private persons can
buy 3D works of renowned artists and designers. It is the specificity of
this shop that the offered items are not yet available, but will be
produced by additive technologies just at the moment they are ordered. For
this, the buyer/client can choose the size and material according to the
specifications given by the artist or designer. The product range includes
artworks and accessories as well as small furniture for the living room.
Furthermore, architecture students can for example produce their 3D
drafts. In contrast to the professional and sophisticated design approach
of Artshapes, most of the already existing 3D-printing-online shops mainly
focus on semi-professional community offers. The most well-known example
for this is the leading New York 3D-printing-marketplace Shapeways
(shapeways.com).
The processing offered by Artshapes goes far beyond what is commonly known
as 3D printing and thus enables the manufacture of high-quality objects
from renowned artists and designers. On the whole, the majority shareholder
and production partner Alphaform dominates more than 10 professional
additive manufacturing methods, from stereo lithography to selective laser
sintering. Thereby, more than 40 different materials from plastic to
titanium as well as surface treatments - from painting to stabilizing metal
coating - can be chosen.
Artshapes is not fundamentally a new business for Alphaform. Since many
years the company is manufacturing artworks and models for artists,
designers, architects or even development departments. Primarily new is the
processing via Internet. While shop construction and organisation are in
the experienced hands of the partner Ecommerce Alliance AG, the company
explores unknown territory in the setting of the artworks by the artists
and designers themselves. 'With Artshapes we implement for the first time
an almost completely automatized project handling, from object testing
through buildability up to production planning, including possible material
options. Artists and designers can prove by themselves on their computers,
whether their artwork can be build', says Thomas Vetter, CEO of Alphaform
AG. 'If it functions trouble-free, we can introduce the processes also in
our main business - at first for comparatively simple prototype orders.'
The acquisition of artists and designers for Artshapes results from art
dealers and art experts out of the business environment of Daniel Wild, for
example, the editor of the magazine Artinvestor, Edgard Quadt.
Getperformance GmbH, Munich, is responsible for online marketing. 'We
previously got in touch with the art scene and attracted considerable
interest', Wild reported.
In the construction phase, the financing of Artshapes results from 56% by
Alphaform and 44% by Tiburon. The break-even should be accomplished after
two years, whereat Alphaform gets earnings due to the manufacturing of the
objects from the beginning. For the second phase after about one year it is
considered to add another investor. Nonetheless, Alphaform will hold a
majority of 51% until further. Considerable additional revenues are
expected already during the first complete year of operation, which will be
consolidated completely by Alphaform.
About Alphaform
Alphaform AG, based in Feldkirchen near Munich and founded in 1996, is a
production company for complex components and products produced in small
batches. Alphaform belongs to the European market leaders in prototyping
and to the production of series closer prototypes, particularly for the
automotive and capital goods industries. The company has a leading position
throughout Europe in manufacturing orthopaedic implants and instruments.
The shares of Alphaform are listed in the Prime Standard Segment of the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB) under the abbreviation ATF.
The core competence of Alphaform lies in its extensive application know-how
for processes and materials for the additive production of complex
prototypes, tools, individual components and small series made of plastic
and metal. The company's activity is focused on the orthopaedic and medical
technology, automotive, aviation and aerospace industries. The subsidiaries
of Alphaform are located in Germany, Finland, Sweden and the UK.
About Tiburon
Daniel Wild and Tim Schwenke founded Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH, based
in Munich in 2001, as a private associated company. As a seed investor,
Tiburon has been engaged within the past 12 years in many companies during
their foundation, for example in Xing, lokalisten and trivago. The most
important participation in portfolio is the market-listed company
Ecommerce Alliance, whose CEO is Daniel Wild.
Contact:
Dr. Thomas Vetter
CEO
ALPHAFORM AG
Kapellenstraße 10
85622 Feldkirchen
Tel.: +49 89 905002 21
Fax: +49 89 9050021021
e-mail: tvetter(at)alphaform.de
Internet: www.alphaform.de
Contact:
Daniel Wild
Managing Director
Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH
Maximilianstr. 36
80539 München
Fax: +49 89 2000 464 49
e-mail: info(at)tiburon.de
Internet: www.tiburon-gmbh.de
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Language: English
Company: Alphaform AG
Kapellenstraße 10
85622 Feldkirchen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)89 905002 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)89 905002 - 90
E-mail: ir(at)alphaform.de
Internet: www.alphaform.de
ISIN: DE0005487953
WKN: 548795
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München,
Stuttgart
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