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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 …

On the latest Additive Insight podcast episode, we’re joined by Authentise founder and CEO Andre Wegner. Authentise is a provider of data-driven workflow management software, establishing itself first in the additive manufacturing space before expanding into other sectors. Throughout our conversation, Wegner details his motivation for setting up th…

On the latest Additive Insight Innovators on Innovators episode, Jason Lopes, the Director of Additive Manufacturing at Gentle Giant Studios, is joined by Brian McLean, the Director of Rapid Prototype at LAIKA. Gentle Giant Studios is a leader in visual effects and modelling, while LAIKA is an Oscar-nominated feature film animation studio. Both com…

On the latest episode of the Additive Insight podcast, TCT Group Content Manager Sam Davies goes through the doors at GE Additive's Cincinnati facility to learn more about the company's Series Three metal binder jet system.GE Additive unveiled the Series Three system late last year with a view to commencing shipments in the second half of 2023. It …

On today’s episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we welcome Alloy Enterprises CEO Ali Forsyth. Alloy Enterprises is among several start-up companies offering novel metal additive manufacturing technologies through a business model that sells parts rather than machines. In this episode, Forsyth details the motivation behind Alloy Enterprises, exp…

On the latest Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Rush Laselle, the CEO of AddUp’s North America operations. AddUp was born from a joint venture between Michelin and Fives, with the company bringing to market additive manufacturing solutions based on metal powder bed fusion and Directed Energy Deposition. LaSelle joined the company in the spr…

In our latest instalment of the Innovators on Innovators series, Callie Higgins, a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is joined by Stephanie Benight, President and Principal Scientist at Tactile Materials Solutions.The pair have spent their careers working with photopolymer 3D printing materials, and …

On the latest Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Zeda CEO Shri Shetty. Zeda is the resulting brand from PrinterPrezz's acquisition of Vertex Manufacturing, which brought together the medical device manufacturing expertise of the former and the industry-wide focus of the latter. Throughout this discussion, Shetty explains the thinking behind …

On the latest Additive Insight episode, TCT Group Content Manager Sam Davies sits down with Neil Hopkinson. Hopkinson is the lead inventor of the High Speed Sintering process which has been licensed by multiple OEMs, and evolved to become Selective Absorption Fusion (SAF) at Stratasys. During this conversation, Hopkinson details the early years of …

Laura Griffiths meets with Louise Callanan, Director of Additive Manufacturing at Renishaw to discuss the engineering firm’s AM journey so far.Speaking ahead of Renishaw’s 50th anniversary celebrations at the company’s facility in Miskin, Wales, the same spot where its RenAM machines are brought to life, Callanan talks about 50 years of UK engineer…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, the TCT content team catch up after a busy week at the NEC Birmingham for the UK's flagship 3D printing and additive manufacturing event, TCT 3Sixty.Kicking things off with the inaugural TCT UK User Group, the team reflect on the key themes raised during this unique meeting of UK-based AM users inclu…

This episode of the Additive Insight podcast features an Innovators on Innovators conversation between Andy Allshorn, the founder and Technical Director of 3D printing consultancy At 3D Squared, and Pat Warner, Digital Manufacturing Manager of BWT Alpine F1 Team. The pair first began working together in the mid nineties with Andy helping Pat's team…

The job of a researcher is to keep reinventing and continue to ask “what’s next?” For Richard Hague, Professor of Additive Manufacturing and Director of the Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CfAM) at the University of Nottingham, that question has been at the core of numerous projects undertaken at the Centre over the last decade where the ‘what’ …

On the latest Additive Insight podcast, TCT Group Content Manager Sam Davies takes the short trip to Evove, a UK-based company leveraging 3D printing technology to enable precise membranes. Throughout the episode, Evove CEO Chris Wyres and Senior AM Engineer Richard Finch discuss the beginnings of the company, their in-house 3D printing capability,…

As the 2023 RAPID + TCT event drew to a close, the TCT Magazine editorial team found a not entirely quiet corner to discuss what they had seen and heard across the show floor and conference. Their conversation ranges from company rebrands to new products, and conference stage insights to industry-wide cynicism.…

On this week's Additive Insight episode we're joined by Impossible Objects Chairman Bob Swartz and CEO Steve Hoover. The pair join us on the Additive Insight podcast to discuss the launch of the CBAM 25 composite 3D printer in line with this week’s RAPID + TCT event. Impossible Object’s CBAM 25 machine is said to be capable of printing 15 times fas…

In November 2014, TCT introduced the additive manufacturing industry’s first podcast, launching with an episode that featured the makers of Netflix’s exclusive 3D printing documentary: Print the Legend.Following the CEOs of MakerBot, Formlabs and 3D Systems, Print the Legend captured the zeitgeist of an industry at the peak of its hype cycle. Twent…

Coming soon on the Additive Insight podcast: Episode #100.Print the Legend: A decade on - featuring new and exclusive interviews with Bre Pettis and Avi Reichental.By TCT Magazine

Our latest guest on the Additive Insight podcast is Gaia Giladi, co-founder and Chief Creative of sustainable footwear brand HILOS. HILOS has come to market with a series of footwear products manufactured through an on-demand, circular process that limits inventory and waste. Enabling this more sustainable manufacture of footwear is 3D printing tec…

On the latest instalment of our Innovators on Innovators series, Tangible Solutions Director of Engineering Matt Shomper is joined by DfAM consultant Duann Scott. On the agenda today is computational design, with Matt leaning on his 10+ years experience in the medical device market, and Duann on his learnings from the likes of Shapeways, Autodesk a…

On this week's Additive Insight podcast, TCT editors Laura Griffiths and Sam Davies find a rare quiet moment during the Additive Manufacturing Users Group Conference to share what they've seen and learned.We discuss a prime example of AM collaboration in a joint keynote between Robert Ducey of LAIKA Studios and Nicholas Jacobson of the University o…

On this week's Additive Insight podcast, TCT's Senior Content Producer Sam Davies is joined by Pat Warner, Kristin Mulherin & Matthew Shomper to discuss the conversations and collaborations at the AMUG Conference 2023. As multi-time visitors to the AMUG Conference, the trio are well versed in the kind of relationships and discussions that are gener…

On the latest episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Bauer Hockey Senior Brand Manager Mat Dejardins to discuss the company's use of 3D printing technology in the development of the REAKT helmet series. Harnessing EOS' Digital Foam technology, the company has developed a lightweight and breathable helmet liner which features 3D pr…

On this bonus Additive Insight podcast episode to celebrate International Women's Day, the five nominees for this year's TCT Women in 3D Printing Innovator Award come together to discuss the work they're doing in the additive manufacturing industry. This year's shortlist includes: Dr Kate Black, Jessica Drazba, Dr Alba Gonzalez-Alvarez, Dr Parastoo…

On the latest episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Senior Content Producer Sam Davies sits down with restor3d co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Cambre Kelly. Restor3d is a medical device company that leans on 3D printing, biomechanics, and AI in its bid to deliver personalised surgical solutions for medical professionals. In recent weeks,…

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, Mark Abshire, Additive Manufacturing Users Group President joins us ahead of this year's AMUG Conference. AMUG 2023 will take place on March 19-23 at the Hilton Chicago. Mark joins us to talk about what makes AMUG unique, best nuggets of additive advice he’s picked up at the conference, and the value of a…

On the latest TCT Innovators on Innovators episode, Amy Elliot, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, sits down with Formalloy CEO Melanie Lang to discuss the burgeoning additive manufacturing processes of binder jetting and Directed Energy Deposition. Throughout the episode, the pair share the work they are doing with the respective techno…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Frank Herzog, the co-founder of Concept Laser and Managing Director of the HZG Group.Throughout our conversation, Herzog provides insights into the early days of Concept Laser, what it took to build a metal 3D printing business in the noughties, and why the sale to GE Additive in 2016…

On this episode of Innovators on Innovators, Materialise CEO Fried Vancraen sits down with Quickparts CEO Ziad Abou, just days after the companies announced their partnership. Last week, Quickparts revealed it was to implement Materialise's CO-AM software platform across its global manufacturing operations. Throughout their conversation, the pair o…

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, Chris Connery, Head of Global Analysis at CONTEXT joins us to discuss the current state of 3D printer shipments, trends, and what 2023 could hold for the additive manufacturing (AM) market.As a market intelligence and analysis provider for the global technology industry, CONTEXT's quarterly AM industry re…

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, we're joined by additive manufacturing industry consultant and analyst Terry Wohlers. Wohlers, the founder of Wohlers Associates and a frequent speaker on the 3D printing conference circuit, has been working in the industry since the late 1980s. Throughout this Executive Interview episode, the TCT Hall of…

On the latest Innovators on Innovators episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Matt Whelan, Ocado Technology Head of Engineering for the 600 Series Bot, is joined by nTopology CEO Brad Rothenberg. The pair have worked together through Ocado Technology's deployment of the nTopology platform as it has developed its fleet of swarm robotics within its…

For the last Additive Insight of 2022, the TCT editorial team gather for a first live recording from our newly minted TCT Additive Manufacturing Network to discuss this year's biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing (AM) news stories.As this handy month-by-month round-up proves, 2022 was by no means short on new AM products, developments, ac…

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, we're joined by ALTANA CTO Petra Severit & Dr. Max Röttger, Head of 3D Lab & Cubic Ink Additive Manufacturing. ALTANA is a specialty chemicals company providing Cubic Ink materials to inkjet and resin-based 3D printing systems. Earlier this year, the company sold its controlling stake in dp polar to 3D Sy…

Hubs is an online manufacturing platform that was founded in 2013 and boasts a range of services that span 3D printing, CNC machining, injection moulding and sheet metal fabrication services. Through its global manufacturing network of suppliers, it has long been an advocate for decentralized manufacturing, and as it has matured as a company, has p…

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, MakerVerse CEO & Managing Director Markus Seibold joins as our latest Executive Interview guest.Laura Griffiths speaks to Seibold about providing a one-stop shop for additive manufacturing (AM), impact on supply chain, and AM lessons learned from Siemens Energy, a prolific adopter of industrial 3D printin…

On the latest Additive Insight, the TCT editorial team sum up a week in Frankfurt with a special roundtable recorded live at Formnext 2022. The team discuss launches from HP, SLM Solutions, Carbon alongside partnership announcements from Materialise, Oqton and more.Learn more about 3D printing with DuraForm PAx Black and DuraForm PAx Natural (SLS) …

On the latest Additive Insight Innovators on Innovators podcast, Met-L-Flo President and AMUG Past President Carl Dekker sits down with William Dallas Martin, a Technician at Toyota Motor North America's TILT Lab. Throughout the episode, they discuss the use of 3D printing inside that Toyota makerspace facility, the application opportunities for ad…

In our latest Executive Interview, we speak to the newly appointed President of Healthcare at Formlabs Guillaume Bailliard. Bailliard has been working in the healthcare sector for 25 years, and on the Additive Insight podcast, he shared his thoughts on the opportunities for 3D printing in the medical space, as well as what he will bring to his role…

On this episode of the TCT Additive Insight podcast, Evolve Additive CEO Joe Allison is joined by Buildparts founder Mike Littrell for the latest instalment of our Innovators on Innovators series. Throughout the conversation, Joe and Mike share how they built their service bureau businesses, assess the accuracy of market value estimates in AM, and …

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, the editorial team discuss the biggest additive manufacturing and 3D printing news stories from the last month.The top story focuses on Nikon's numerous investments in metal AM, starting with the biggest, a voluntary public takeover of SLM Solutions in a 622 million Euro deal at the start of September, qu…

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, we bring you a panel session recorded live at this year's TCT 3Sixty on the future of sustainability in additive manufacturing. Hoda Amel, Technology Manager, Additive Manufacturing at the the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) leads a panel of experts including Stephen Fitzpatrick, Machining and Addit…

TCT's Senior Content Producer Sam Davies joins Head of Content Laura Griffiths on a call from Chicago to discuss the biggest additive manufacturing launches from the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2022.HP and Nexa3D were the headline stories from the week as both launched long-anticipated production focused 3D printing technolog…