Case Study
Minimizer’s Tough Semi Fenders Benefit from Black ULTEM Prototypes
FOR A 3D W ORLD TM BORN OF DESTRUCTION If necessity is the mother of invention, sometimes destruction is its father. This was the case with the tough-as-nails semi-truck fenders that Minimizer designs and manufactures in its Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, facility. The idea for these thick-gauge polyethylene fenders came from a pair of accidents: An errant forklift dented Dick Kruckeberg’s metal semi fender and, later, Dick’s wife flattened a pl