History of Dibond
Singen, a small town near Lake Constance and the Swiss border in southern Germany, was the birthplace of Dibond aluminum printing. Although 3A Composites invented Dibond aluminum in the early 1990s, its roots date back to the turn of the nineteenth century. Chemist Erwin Lauber, engineer Albert Gmür, and inventor Robert Victor Neher invented a technique for manufacturing rolls of thin aluminum strips in Singen at the time. Fast forward to 1969, when panels made of aluminum and plastic were developed in Singen: they were first used in construction, but it didn’t take long for their possible use as a high-end printing medium in major art exhibitions.
