From a national printer that came to develop its own bone prosthesis printed in 3D, the entrepreneur Tomás Chernoff, He leads a silent revolution that unites the physical world with the virtual. In a country where to undertake is synonymous with jumping obstacles, the founder of Che3D, chose an even more complex path: to manufacture the future from scratch.
“I printed my own bones for surgery,” Chernoff confessed, without Rodeos, in the Argentine entrepreneurs Streaming cycle. And it is not metaphor. A complex shoulder injury led him to create a personalized bone model that his surgeon used to practice before the procedure. “The tomograph generates a 3D digital file.
But its history does not begin in an operating room. It starts in a family office, where he worked as an administrative assistant for his father, industrial designer and pioneer in 3D printing in the region. “I saw my old man with the printers and it seemed something magical,” he recalled. Soon, that fascination was transformed into action: his own printer was armed and began experimenting with mackets for students. Thus was born Che3D and, with just 22 years, the Cheprusa had already designed and marketed, a national 3D printer manufactured in Tierra del Fuego.
“We had to build a SRL to be able to tender in technical schools. Today they still send me videos of people by printing with those machines,” Chernoff said. The entrepreneur insists that the key is to deeply understand the materials and processes. “I still study every day. To innovate, you have to master what you are playing,” he said. And said: “General Motors, Boeing … already print critical pieces such as turbines. In those sectors, 3D printing is no longer the future: it is the productive standard.”
In Che3D today they print from sneakers to pieces to parts for the automotive and aerospace industry. When asked if in the near future, food problems with 3D printers can be solved, Chernoff replied: “Technology exists, but is expensive and slow. It serves more to manufacture organs than to fill gondolas.” Even so, it does not rule out that before 2030 let’s see simple organs printed based on stem cells.
As for the labor impact of this technology, the entrepreneur’s gaze is pragmatic: “It will not replace millions of jobs such as artificial intelligence, but it does transform specific industries. And in that, Argentina is not behind.” In fact, he said that the country is a regional leader for 3D printing adoption. “At one time, Argentina bought more per capita printers than Brazil. The Chinese could not believe it!” He said and anticipated: “Today you describe what you want on Google with artificial intelligence, and generates a 3D file to print. The day that is combined with simpler and more cheap home printers, anyone can manufacture what I imagine.”
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