TETHON
3D
TETHON 3D
Tethon 3D helps its
clients create the
‘unimaginable.’ By
Alan Dorich
There is never a point when the leadership of Tethon 3D is completely satisfied
with its product offerings. President and CEO Karen Linder says the Omaha,
Neb.-based company continuously innovates to meet customers’ needs.
“We respond to customer demand to create new materials and are continually
reformulating our existing products to improve them,” she describes. “They go
through versions that are updated typically every six months with new
formulations.”
Tethon 3D manufactures ceramic powders for binder-jet printing and photo-
curable ceramic polymers for SLA and DLP 3D printing. Linder and her husband,
Jim Linder, founded the company in 2011, taking its name from the word for
“white buffalo” in the language of the Omaha Sioux Native American tribe.
Over the years, Tethon 3D has built on the research of Professor John Balistreri
and Gregory Pugh of Bowling Green State University’s Ceramic Arts department.
The Linders, who have backgrounds in medical science, were introduced to
additive manufacturing through its use in the biotechnology field.
However, “We focused fully on ceramics because of the pioneering advances
made at Bowling Green State University and the desirability of ceramic’s physical
properties in additive manufacturing,” Karen Linder recalls.