Company Profile

Rapid Techniques 

Rapid Techniques, based in Derby UK, supply and support the full range of Rapid Prototype products from Z Corporation. Our team are focused on Z Corp's 3D Print technology which offers customers the capability to speedily and affordably print 3D prototypes in full colour.

Rapid Techniques application team will assess your specific requirements and offer advise on the best and fastest way to get from 3D CAD data to product delivery. Our team pride themselves on customer support and our after sales service is unrivalled.

Z Corporation 

Z Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets the world’s fastest 3D printers - machines that produce handheld models quickly, easily, and inexpensively from computer-aided design (“CAD”) and other digital data - and the word's most portable 3D scanners.

Z Corp.’s 3D printers are used by companies to make prototypes ranging from toys for market feedback to fan blades for functional testing. In the same way that conventional desktop printers provide computer users with a paper output of their documents, 3D printers provide 3D CAD users a physical prototype of real world objects such as a mobile phone, an engine manifold, or a camera.

Z Corporation’s straightforward product interface provides users a means to automatically build appearance prototypes from their 3D CAD designs quickly and inexpensively compared to alternative costly and labour-intensive methods. For example, a mobile phone design can be turned from a screen image into a prototype in less than an hour for less than £5. By using appearance prototypes early in the product development cycle, design engineers can receive critical feedback early in the design process. Z Corporation prototypes confirm market acceptance of new designs before the production process even begins, eliminating costly last-minute changes and enabling companies to be the first to market with their products.

The Company, currently sells its products globally into a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, architecture, education, geospatial industries, health care, and entertainment. The Company has shipped more than 3,000 3D printers to customers such as Sony, Fisher-Price, Adidas, Canon, Kodak, Clorox, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BMW, Porsche, United Technologies, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Harvard, MIT and Yale.