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adidas-Salomon AG is among the top athletic footwear manufactueres worldwide, and product enhancements and timely product introductions are crucial to its success. Technology is given a priority, and the company's vision was to implement a complete digital process that will enable them to create and share three dimensional data back and forth from corporate headquarters in Germany, and in the Portland, Oregon facility and to all its corporate units and contract factories in Asia.

Over the past few years, the periodic addition of new hardware and software has helped adidas-Salomon AG realize this vision.

One recent piece to this puzzle was the implementation of Objet Geometries pioneering Polyjet inkjet technology for rapid prototyping physical models from STL files. Their staisfaction with the high quality models has led them to choose Objet Geometries as its RP business partner.

Since 2002, the polyjet inkjet technology has been used extensively in both headquarters and has also recently been installed in the company's Asia-based development and production locations.

"Installing a machine for both headquarters has put us on a higher level. Objet's helped change the way we work." says adidas-Salomon AG's Vice President of Product Creation Technologies Gary Pitmann.

Pitmann also stated "Our designers and engineers need to hold and feel the model in their hands; it's always important, and with Objet, it's almost like having a 3D fax capability."

About Objet:

Objet is the technology and market leader in jetting polymer materials to produce high-quality 3-Dimensional models and parts. With our PolyJet™-based systems and FullCure® family materials, even the most complex geometries can be built - easily, quickly and cost effectively - in an office environment.

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