Exclusive Interviews
Precision at the Microscale: UK Researchers Advance Medical Devices with BMF’s 3D Printing Tech
University of Nottingham researchers are using Boston Micro Fabrication‘s (BMF) 3D printing technology to develop medical devices that improve compatibility with human tissue. Funded by a UK grant, this project…
Interview: Rethinking 3D Printing for High-Volume Production with Exentis
As the 3D printing market hits its bottom, leaving SPAC-merged firms grasping for cash, we may soon witness a new wave of additive manufacturing (AM) IPOs, with other companies able…
US Army Corps of Engineers’ Megan Kreiger on the State of Construction 3D Printing
Despite last year’s gloomy reports about the financial state of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, there’s no doubt that we’re actually witnessing the birth of a sector rather than its…
Profiling a Construction 3D Printing Pioneer: US Army Corps of Engineers’ Megan Kreiger
The world of construction 3D printing is still so new that the true experts can probably be counted on two hands. Among them is Megan Kreiger, Portfolio Manager of Additive…
Seurat CFO Di Paola Shares Insights on Defying Industry Trends in 3D Printing
In an industry where 3D printing public companies are grappling with troubled earnings and workforce reductions, Seurat is defying market trends by increasing its workforce sevenfold, growing from 20 to…
Know Your Würth: CEO AJ Strandquist on How Würth Additive Can Change 3D Printing
AJ Strandquist is a different kind of additive manufacturing (AM) CEO. He’d be far more at home walking around a shop floor than he would be sitting in the boardroom…
WinSun is Back as Gaudi Tech and It’s 3D Printing Houses in the U.S.
About a decade ago, a Chinese 3D printing company, Yingchuang Building Technique (WinSun), made enormous waves in the worlds of additive manufacturing (AM), construction, and beyond. Each headline WinSun made…
Pressing Refresh: What CEO Brad Kreger and Velo3D Have Learned About Running a 3D Printing Company
To whatever extent a business is successful thanks to specialization, businesses will nonetheless always be holistic entities. A company isn’t a bunch of compartments that all happen to share the…
Exclusive Interview: BICO’s New Bioprinting Era under Maria Forss Begins
In the dynamic landscape of life sciences, Maria Forss has taken the helm as the new CEO of BICO (STO: BICO), a name that emerged from bioprinting pioneer Cellink and…
3D Printing’s Next Generation of Leadership: A Conversation with Additive Minds’ Dr. Gregory Hayes
It’s easy to forget sometimes that social media isn’t reality. So, at the end of 2023, when a burst of doom and gloom started to spread across the Western world’s…
Interview: NAGASE Facilitates AM Adoption with EMPOWR3D 3D Printing Brand
The additive manufacturing (AM) market is entering a new phase in which large companies from outside of the segment have entered and begun consolidating. In reality, this trend has been…
Meet the New XJet: New CEO and CBO Discuss New 3D Printing Strategy
When it emerged on the market in 2016, Israel’s XJet was one of the most promising startups in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Promising a user-friendly method for producing extremely…
Organizing an Industry: AM Coalition’s Mark Burnham on Lobbying in 3D Printing
As Michael Molitch-Hou described in his recap of Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) 2024, one of the biggest recurring themes of the conference was collaboration. When an industry based on cutting-edge…
“Down the Road” is Nearer than You Think: Why Nexa3D Is Bullish on AI for 3D Printing
At Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) in New York City (February 6-8, 2024), Nexa3D CEO Avi Reichental gave a presentation entitled, “How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform AM.” The day before he…
HP’s Ramon Pastor on “Scaling Revenue Rapidly” with Metal Binder Jet 3D Printing
Last week’s successful Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) business summit was filled with illustrious speakers. Among them was the Global Head and General Manager of HP 3D Metals, the always friendly…
Supply Chain Expert Weighs in 3D Printing’s Role in Resilience
Additive manufacturing (AM) experts have understood for at least a decade that the technology could prove vital for digital inventories and the production of spare parts. However, it wasn’t until…
Startup Accelerator: Pioneering Digital Dentistry at LuxCreo
As we enter 2024, I am excited to commence a fascinating journey of exploring the stories of innovative startups in the additive manufacturing (AM) field through exclusive interviews. With a…
Olaf Diegel to Redesign DfAM at AMUG 2024
This year’s Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, promises to be an enlightening experience with Olaf Diegel, professor of Additive Manufacturing (AM) at the University of Auckland,…
All the Moving Pieces: Nexa3D’s Chief Government Officer Elisa Teipel Explains 3D Printing’s Role in Logistics
Right as Formnext 2023 was getting started, Nexa3D announced its acquisition of Essentium, a deal that officially went through earlier this month. The two companies have hit the ground running…
Velo3D CEO and CFO Discuss Metal 3D Printing Firm’s Prospects
Velo3D (NYSE: VLD) initially made a significant impact with its breakthrough approach to laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) for metals, which involved controlling more variables and employing a novel recoating…
Streamlining 3D Printing: HP’s Global Head of Polymers Discusses the AM I Navigator Initiative
As happens every year at Formnext, the world’s largest 3D printing trade show, a number of different significant product launches, mergers, and other announcements took place at Formnext 2023. Perhaps…
PECM Techique Brings Precision to Post-Processing of Metal 3D Printed Parts
According to the “Post-Processing for Additive Manufacturing: Market Analysis and Forecast” report from Additive Manufacturing Research, metal post-processing revenues are forecasted to reach $1.4 billion by 2031. This isn’t simply…
Targeting the Metal 3D Printing Niche at Solvus Global’s Powders on Demand
According to the “Metal AM Markets: 2023” report from Additive Manufacturing Research, metal powders for 3D printing are set to reach nearly $1 billion in revenues by 2023. While laser powder…
Scanning for Planning: How 3D Scanning Contributes to Supply Chain Resilience
The week after Thanksgiving, the Biden administration provided the world with major insight into what will be driving the White House’s activities in 2024 (beyond Biden’s campaign for reelection). The…
