Case Study: Kipling achieves a fully-flexible 3D-printed City Jungle Shopper with Materialise

Kipling - Customer Case Study

Kipling, the Belgian bag and accessories brand famous for its monkey mascot, wanted to bring its Monkey Madness collection into three dimensions by creating a 3D‑printed plastic bag that preserved its signature monkey motifs. To do this they partnered with Materialise, using Materialise 2-matic software to convert 2D silhouettes into 3D designs and aiming to showcase the world’s first fully flexible 3D printing material, TPU 92A-1.

Materialise engineered and prototyped four pattern options, added structural rims and strap hooks, and printed the final City Jungle Shopper as a single piece—producing one version in TPU 92A-1 via laser sintering and another in epoxy using Materialise’s Mammoth stereolithography. The collaboration delivered a functional, eye-catching bag that demonstrated Materialise’s end‑to‑end 3D printing expertise, resulted in the world’s first fully‑flexible 3D‑printed bag, and set the stage for further co‑creative products with Kipling.

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Jürgen Derycke

Media – PR & Digital Marketing Manager