On this weeks’ episode of Additive Insight, we’re joined by Isabelle Hachette, CEO at Interspectral, a Swedish technology company specialising in 3D visualisation and data fusion, with a focus on additive manufacturing.Interspectral’s AM Explorer software enables monitoring and analysis of process data for metal 3D printing technologies – having un…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we bring you the latest instalment of our Innovators on Innovators series. This time, Additive Manufacturing Solutions CEO Rob Higham is joined by John Barnes, the founder of Metal Powder Works and Managing Director of The Barnes Group Advisors. Together, they deep dive into the world of metal additi…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we welcome architect and jewellery designer Jenny Wu. Ten years ago, Wu founded the LACE jewellery brand, with 3D printing positioned as a key technology for the design and manufacture for every product the company has released since. As the brand celebrates its tenth anniversary, Wu joined the Addit…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Mantle co-founder and CEO Ted Sorom. Mantle was founded back in 2015 and in recent years has released its P-200 printer and F-200 Furnace to simplify the toolmaking process with its TrueShape metal 3D printing technology. Throughout our conversation, Sorom provides insights on the dec…

This week’s Additive Insight podcast guest is Forward AM Technologies CEO Martin Back. Forward AM was the additive manufacturing brand of BASF until the business was carved out earlier this year. Back, previously the Managing Director of the business, was named CEO of the independent entity and today joins the Additive Insight podcast to explain ho…

On this week’s episode of Additive Insight, we welcome Stacey DelVecchio, an advocate for all things additive manufacturing and gender equity in STEM, to discuss what remains one of additive’s greatest challenges: diversity.As a former Additive Manufacturing Product Manager at Caterpillar Inc, DelVecchio championed the adoption of AM across new pro…

On this week's Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by APWORKS CEO Jon Meyer. APWORKS was initially an Airbus R&D division, which was spun out in 2018 to begin harnessing its additive manufacturing expertise in the development of commercial applications in aerospace, defence, motorsport, automotive, and consumer products.Throughout our conversati…

As IMTS gets underway this week, we're joined by Colibrium Additive Product Line Lead for Binder Jet Brian Bikrmeyer. Colibrium Additive announced its intentions to launch a metal binder jet technology in 2017, commencing a beta programme in 2019 to inform its Series 2 system, and then launching its Series 3 machine in 2022. As of this year, Colibr…

On this latest episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we welcome four guests who have come together to feature in the first episode of our new series, the Feedback Loop. The Feedback Loop has been developed to facilitate conversations between AM tech suppliers and their users, allowing each party to garner learnings from their counterparts, and a…

At this year's TCT Sixty, our collaboration with Women in 3D Printing saw another two additive manufacturing experts come together to discuss the technology's biggest opportunities and challenges, and a selection of audience 'ask me anything' topics.At the UK's definitive event for industrial 3D printing and AM, Dr Olga Ivanova, Director of Applica…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by 3DSPARK CEO Ruben Meuth to discuss the company’s manufacturing software offering. 3DSPARK’s software has been designed to optimise the manufacturing, purchasing and sales processes by analysing 3D CAD and 2D data. Throughout our discussion, Meuth explains the motivation behind the com…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Slant 3D CEO Gabe Bentz. Slant 3D was founded in 2017 and is today believed to have one of the largest 3D printer farms in the Western hemisphere. Throughout our conversation, Bentz discusses the motivation behind the Slant3D business, how the company is opening up access to its print…

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by AM Craft CCO Janis Jatnieks and VP of Strategy and Business Development Scott Sevcik. AM Craft is an additive manufacturing services company headquartered in Latvia that works exclusively in the aerospace sector. Throughout the conversation, we discuss AM Craft’s application of polyme…

On the latest instalment of our Innovators on Innovators series, our guests are from the world of life sciences, as the Head of Additive Manufacturing at Sartorius, Jez Pullin, chats to Merck Additive Manufacturing Engineer Drew Porter. Sartorius is a company delivering bioprocess solutions and lab products to its vast user base, while Merck is a d…

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…