Advanced Ceramic and Composite Materials for Additive Manufacturing

Tethon 3D develops custom materials for companies, researchers, and government-funded programs pushing the limits of additive manufacturing.

If your project requires a ceramic, glass, carbide, nitride, oxide, or other specialty material that does not exist commercially, our team can help evaluate feasibility, formulate the material, and support development toward printing and post-processing.

We work with customers developing materials for aerospace, defense, energy, healthcare, biomedical research, investment casting, electronics, and advanced manufacturing applications.

Contract R&D for Novel 3D Printing Materials

Tethon 3D offers contract research and development services for custom additive manufacturing materials. Projects often begin with a focused feasibility study to determine whether your powder, chemistry, or application can be adapted for 3D printing.

We support early-stage exploration, SBIR/STTR programs, university research, corporate R&D, and production-driven material development.

Our work may include:

Material feasibility testing
Custom ceramic slurry or resin formulation
UV-curable resin development for SLA, DLP, LCD, and other light-based platforms
Powder and binder development for binder jetting systems
Printability screening and process recommendations
Debinding and sintering support
Material optimization for strength, density, resolution, shrinkage, or thermal performance
Scale-up support for successful formulations

Why Work With Tethon 3D?

Deep Ceramic Materials Expertise

Tethon 3D is one of the most experienced ceramic additive manufacturing companies in the United States. Our team has developed and commercialized a wide range of ceramic 3D printing materials, including alumina, silica, zirconia, hydroxyapatite, TCP, silicon carbide, aluminum nitride, and other advanced formulations.

Through Tethon 3D and our TA&T capabilities, we combine additive manufacturing expertise with traditional ceramic processing knowledge, including powder processing, sintering, coatings, hot pressing, cold isostatic pressing, and advanced thermal processing.

Practical Feasibility Testing

Not every material can be printed easily. That is why we often recommend starting with a small feasibility project before committing to a larger development program.

Once the required raw materials are received, our team can quickly evaluate whether a material has a realistic path toward additive manufacturing. This approach helps reduce risk, control cost, and identify the right development path early.

Built in the United States

Tethon 3D is based in the United States and supports customers working in demanding industrial, research, and government markets. For customers with sensitive applications, domestic material development and production support can be an important advantage.

Supported Additive Manufacturing Platforms

UV-Curable Resins

We develop ceramic and composite resins for SLA, DLP, LCD, CLIP, and other light-based 3D printing platforms. These materials are designed for applications requiring high solids loading, print resolution, controlled shrinkage, and successful thermal post-processing.

Powder and Binder Systems

We also develop powder and binder systems for binder jetting and related additive manufacturing processes. These projects may involve powder selection, binder chemistry, printability, green strength, depowdering, burnout, and sintering behavior.

Materials of Interest

Tethon 3D is actively interested in developing additive manufacturing materials using a broad range of ceramic and inorganic powders, including:

Aluminum oxide
Silica
Zirconia
Magnesium-based materials
Iron oxide
Tricalcium phosphate
Hydroxyapatite
Silicon carbide
Tungsten carbide
Titanium carbide
Boron carbide
Silicon nitride
Aluminum nitride

And many other oxides, carbides, nitrides, phosphates, glasses, and advanced ceramic materials.

Start a Custom Materials Project

Have a material you want to 3D print?

Contact us to discuss your application, powder, platform, and project goals. Tethon 3D can help determine whether your material is a candidate for additive manufacturing and what development path makes the most sense.

Email: Trent@Tethon3D.com

Tethon 3D helps turn difficult materials into printable, manufacturable solutions.

Tethon 3D is proud of the diversity of collaborative projects that we have pursued with leading corporations, government entities and academic researchers to explore and expand the use of additive manufacturing.  We passionately tackle difficult challenges with an experienced team who are breaking the current boundaries of 3d printing.