On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Leela Porges, an award-winning designer and TCT Award-nominated user of 3D printing technology. Her business, PROCODE_DRESS, leverages 3D printing technology to design and manufacture dresses, tops, skirts and accessories, with Porges utilising a patented process to make it all possib…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by CADchat CEO Graham Bredemeyer. Having previously worked at Shapeways and set up the DLP 3D printing firm Collider, Bredemeyer has been working in additive manufacturing for more than a decade. His latest venture, however, sees him branching out to the rest of the manufacturing space t…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Fluent Metal CEO Peter Schmitt. With a background in fine art, most of Schmitt’s career has been focused on design, with the CEO spending several years occupying the role of Chief Designer at Desktop Metal. During his tenure at Desktop, Schmitt’s eyes were opened to the opportunities …

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we bring you the latest instalment of our Innovator on Innovator series. This time, our guests are from two Berlin start-ups as Quantica IP & Technology Manager Ben Hartkopp sits down with Xolo Chief Commercial Officer Stephan Kuhr.Throughout their conversation, the pair discuss Berlin start-up cultu…

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, TCT editors Laura Griffiths and Sam Davies gather their jet-lagged selves around the podcast mic to discuss their takeaways from RAPID + TCT 2024.Last week, North America's largest additive manufacturing and industrial 3D printing event returned to the West Coast for the first time in a decade, and brough…

On this week’s episode, our Executive Interview guest is Sandra Poelsma, Print Process Architect at Additive Industries, who joins us to discuss the complexities of metal additive manufacturing and a brand new machine launching at RAPID + TCT this week.Sandra has spent a decade in the 3D printing industry, first in polymers before moving to metals …

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by JEOL USA VP of Product Management Tom Isabell.Tom has been a part of the JEOL USA management team since 2003 and joins the podcast to discuss the electron microscopy firm’s decision to enter the additive manufacturing field. Harnessing its electron beam technology, JEOL announced the …

We close out our Additive Insight TCT 3Sixty takeover with an editorial roundtable discussing the additive manufacturing technology launches, takeaways, and overall sense of optimism that permeated the UK's definitive industrial 3D printing event.This year saw several hardware debuts including WAAM3D's new MiniWAAM metal system built on a new 3-axi…

On this week’s episode of Additive Insight, our TCT 3Sixty takeover continues with Rolf Mack, KraussMaffei’s Vice President Additive Manufacturing.Last year, the plastics processing company celebrated its 185-year history, which in 2022 included a move into the additive manufacturing (AM) industry with an ambition to become the most reliable and co…

On this week’s episode of Additive Insight, we continue our TCT 3Sixty takeover with an interview with John Kawola, CEO at Boston Micro Fabrication.Having spent 25 years in the additive manufacturing industry, at BMF, Kawola is focused on micro-precision 3D printing for ultra-high precision applications.During our conversation, Kawola talks about t…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by ADDiTEC CEO Brian Matthews. Matthews set up the ADDiTEC business around eight years ago, with the company gradually building out an extensive metal additive manufacturing portfolio that encompasses DED, Liquid Metal Jetting and Hybrid technologies. Throughout the conversation, Matthew…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Hyphen Innovations CEO Onome Scott-Emuakpor. Scott-Emuakpor has more than 20 years experience in structural mechanics and structural dynamics, spending much of that time working for the US Air Force Research Lab. Two years ago, he set up the Hyphen Innovations business to bring to mar…

On this week’s edition of Additive Insight, Filomeno Martina, CEO and co-founder of WAAM3D joins us as our latest Executive Interview guest. Founded by a research team at Cranfield University, following a decade of pioneering research into Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, WAAM3D is a UK-based developer of large scale metal 3D printing systems aimed…

This week we're joined by 1000 Kelvin CEO Omar Fergani.1000 Kelvin is a Berlin-based company that has developed an AI-powered software that predicts print issues in real-time, performs corrections and generates ready-to-use print files.Throughout our conversation, Fergani explains the capabilities of 1000 Kelvin’s AMAIZE software platform, the adop…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Anisoprint CEO Ryan Liu. Liu came into the business a couple of years ago to launch the Anisoprint brand in China and was recently announced as CEO with founder Fedor Antonov transitioning into the CTO role. His appointment to CEO came about after Anisoprint moved its headquarters to …

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Slice Engineering CEO Dan Barousse.Throughout our conversation, Dan explains the challenges Slice Engineering is addressing through its delivery of extrusion 3D printing consumables, the capabilities of its product portfolio, and the impact he expects AI to have in 3D printing.We also…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Plastometrex CTO Dr Jimmy Campbell joins us to discuss the company's PIP Testing technology.Profilometry-based Indentation Plastometry (PIP) is a method for obtaining a material’s stress-strain curve from an indent profile by using accelerated inverse finite element analysis. Throughout the episode, …

On the latest instalment of TCT's Innovators on Innovators series Flow-3D Senior CFD Engineer Allyce Jackman sits down with Hexagon’s Director of Business Enablement Jeff Robertson. Throughout their conversation, the pair discuss computational fluid dynamics in additive, why industry has struggled to adopt simulation and computational tools, and th…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Colin Hautz, the CEO of ArcelorMittal Powders. ArcelorMittal is one of the largest manufacturers of steel in the world and has set up the ArcelorMittal Powders business to bring steel powders to the additive manufacturing industry. Hautz has been appointed to lead the new business uni…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, TCT editors Laura Griffiths and Oliver Johnson discuss their week in Chicago at the 2024 Additive Manufacturing Users Group Conference.They talk about conference highlights including a keynote talk from Jason Lopes on the 3D printing story at Legacy Effects, and a special Innovators Showcase conversa…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, TCT Group Content Manager Sam Davies is joined by Joe Laurienti, the founder and CEO of aerospace company Ursa Major Technologies.Laurienti founded Ursa Major as the first pure play rocket propulsion company in America in 2015, having previously worked on SpaceX and Blue origin engine projects. In se…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Group Content Manager Sam Davies is joined by Ivana Llobet, the founder and CEO of medical device company Odapt. Ivana founded Odapt in a bid to solve the problem of leakage in conventional ostomy bags. Using 3D printing, the company is developing personalised silicone wafers that better fit the user…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Olaf Diegel, Professor of Additive Manufacturing at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and founder of ODD Guitars.Renowned for his stylised 3D printed guitars, Diegel will present at the 2024 Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference as part of a duo of keynote talks …

To launch the vote for this year's TCT Women in 3D Printing Innovator Award, we invited our five finalists onto a panel to discuss their journeys into additive manufacturing (AM) and how they're each impacting the industry today.This year's finalists are: Brigitte de Vet, Chief Executive Officer at Materialise; Cora Leibig, Founder and Chief Execut…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Adrian Bowyer, the founder of the RepRap movement and a TCT Hall of Famer.Bowyer, a former mechanical engineering academic, came to prominence within the 3D printing world around 20 years ago when he shared a blog on the Bath University website detailing the idea for a replicating rap…

On this Additive Insight episode, we're joined by Essentium co-founder and CEO Blake Teipel.Essentium came into the 3D printing industry primarily as a filament manufacturer, before moving into polymer extrusion hardware with the High Speed Extrusion series. Having expanded into hardware, the company picked up several contracts with the US Departme…

In the Additive Insight podcast's latest Innovators on Innovators episode, Victoria Sears, a Senior Engineer at Mayo Clinic, catches up with Nicole McMinn, a Biomedical Engineer at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The pair met while at an industry conference back in 2021 and found common ground as young engineers relatively new to the …

On this week’s episode of Additive Insight, Shannon VanDeren, President of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group and President of Layered Manufacturing and Consulting, joins us as our latest Executive Interview guest.Ahead of the 2024 AMUG Conference, the Distinguished INnovator Operators Award (DINO) recipient shares how her enthusiasm for additi…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Victor Roman, the Managing Director of ARBURGadditive. Arburg set up its additive manufacturing subsidiary in 2021 after introducing its Freeformer 3D printing technology several years earlier. As the head of that business unit, Roman joins the Additive Insight podcast to discuss why …

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by CASTOR CEO Omer Blaier.CASTOR is an additive manufacturing software company that is working to support manufacturers identify suitable applications of 3D printing technology. Throughout the podcast, Blaier discusses the capabilities of CASTOR’s software products, how his experiences a…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Peter Rogers, formerly of Velo3D and Autodesk, links back up with Lumafield co-founder and Head of Product Andreas Bastian as part of our Innovators on Innovators series. The pair met while working at Autodesk on such projects as the Airbus seat frame, which they discuss in the podcast. Since Autodes…

On the last Additive Insight podcast episode of the year, the TCT editorial team sits down to pick the bones out of an eventful 2023. Over the course of 90 minutes, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths, TCT Group Content Manager Sam Davies, and Junior Content Producer Oli Johnson assess the launches, bounces and mergers from January through to Decem…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we’re joined by Mechnano Director of Technology Olga Ivanova.Ivanova joined Mechnano in 2021, while the company was still in stealth, and had yet to commercialize its proprietary technology, that disperses carbon nanotubes throughout materials without reclumping. In the years since, Mechnano has brou…

On the latest TCT Innovators on Innovators podcast, Jonathan Rowley, who ran UK service bureau Digits 2 Widgets for 8 years and is now setting up the AM Manifest community navigation platform, is joined by Blake Courter, the former nTop CTO who is now involved in the LatticeRobot online community through his Gradient Control Laboratories incubator.…

On this week’s episode our Executive Interview series continues with Dr. Evren Yasa, Head of Additive Manufacturing at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.With a decade of experience in additive manufacturing (AM), Yasa joined the AMRC in the summer of 2022 to lead the centre’s AM activity. On the podcast, Yasa discus…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we’re joined by Vitro3D CEO Camila Uzacategui.Vitro3D has spun out of the University of Colorado Boulder, to bring to market its Volumetric Additive Manufacturing technology, a photopolymer process, which promises rapid 3D printing of precise parts. In the last 12 months, Vitro3D has raised 1.3 milli…

As Formnext 2023 came to a close, the TCT Magazine editorial team gathered to discuss the biggest and best launches and developments, while also discussing an ongoing industry trend. Among the topics of discussion were Photocentric's Titan LCD 3D printing system, Renishaw's Tempus metal AM technology, and the Stratasys F3300 FDM platform being adop…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we’ll be learning more about HP’s Multi Jet Fusion 5600 3D printing system as the company debuts the machine at Formnext. The MJF 5600 platform is HP’s upgrade to the 5200 system, which was introduced in May 2019 and has contributed to the 200 million parts printed with Multi Jet Fusion technology. A…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, the focus is once again on Design for Additive Manufacturing as we're joined by Metafold CEO Elissa Ross. Metafold is a developer of Design for AM software, with cloud-based and API products being offered to users of 3D printing. The company is harnessing the founders’ collective knowledge across mat…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined Niall O’Dowd, the CEO of Phase3D. Phase3D provides in-process part quality data, that allows additive manufacturing users to decrease schedule delays, and reduce energy waste of final part scrap, through its Fringe hardware and software solution. The company’s Fringe product offering rep…

On the latest Additive Insight podcast, we’re joined by Pierre Gonnetan, a 3D Printing Business Development Manager at Arkema, to discuss the company’s Easy3D additive manufacturing service offering. Pierre joined Arkema in 2019 to support the development of new markets for ultra-performance polymers like PEKK, before moving to the company’s additi…

On this episode of our Innovators on Innovators series, we’re joined by Doug Kenik, the Director of Software Product Management at Markforged, and Paul Heiden, the Chief Product Officer at Bynder. The pair worked closely together when Kenik was heading up Teton Simulation, and Paul was among the leadership at Ultimaker. Prior to Markforged’s acquis…

On this week's Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Gary Turner, the Managing Director of Ricoh 3D for Healthcare. Ricoh 3D for Healthcare is a business unit set up by Ricoh to leverage 3D printing technology for the development of medical devices. In the last 18 months, the company has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the development of pati…

On this week’s Additive Insight, we’re back with another Executive Interview, this time with Olivier Diegerick, EMEA Additive Manufacturing Portfolio Development Executive at Siemens Digital Industries Software.With a decade of experience in the additive manufacturing sector, Diegerick shares his thoughts on the most meaningful AM trends that have …

On today’s episode of the Additive Insight Innovators on Innovators podcast, we’re joined by Rahul Kasat of 3D Systems and Dave Rheinheimer of DuoForm Plastics.Kasat has been working with 3D Systems for almost 18 months, since the company acquired the Titan Robotics business he led, while Rheinheimer serves as the DuoForm Product Development Manage…

On this bonus episode of Additive Insight, the TCT editorial team catches up with Daniel O'Connor, Vice President of Content Strategy and New Product Development at Rapid News Group (and former TCT Head of Content) from Shanghai to hear about all of the biggest additive manufacturing and 3D printing developments at TCT Asia 2023.The team discuss st…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we’re joined by Senvol co-founder and President, Annie Wang. Senvol has a variety of product offerings that have been designed to allow users of additive manufacturing to access, generate and analyse data. To this end, the company provides comprehensive machine and material databases, while also offe…

As the TCT team in the UK gets ready to head back to China for the first time since 2019, the TCT Magazine editorial team gets together to discuss what visitors can expect from China's leading 3D printing and additive manufacturing event, TCT Asia.Taking place in Shanghai on 12-14th September, TCT Asia 2023 promises the biggest showcase of additive…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we’re joined by Merit3D founder and CEO Spencer Loveless. Merit3D is a 3D printing service bureau that was founded in 2020 in response to Spencer’s frustrations with injection moulding technology. Through Dustless Technologies, a family business, Spencer and his team had been using injection moulding…

On the latest Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Cora Leibig, the founder and CEO of Chromatic 3D Materials. Chromatic 3D Materials was founded in 2016 with the mission to expand the range of materials open to users of polymer 3D printing, helping to push the technology into industrial production applications. The company has since launched …