Additive Insight

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 conversation, Meyer explains why the company spun out of Ai...

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, Colibrium Additive has commercialised the technology, wi...

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 allowing our listeners to hear directly from those...

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 Applications & Technology at Mechnano, and Dr Evren Yasa...

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 company, the capabilities of the 3DSPARK platform, an...

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 farms via a new API offering, and the learnings h...

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 polymer additive manufacturing technology, how the compa...

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 developer of medicines, vaccines and biologic thera...

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 possible. Throughout the conversation, Porges discusses...

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 too. As CEO of CADchat, Bredemeyer and his team hav...

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 of metal additive manufacturing, as well as the re...

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 culture, deep dive into the capabilities of their resp...

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 brought with it all of the AM industry's major players...

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 where she has spent the last eight years focusing...

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 global launch of its e-beam 3D printing process a...

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-axis overhead CNC system architecture; the Massivit...

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 commercially viable solution for large-scale 3D pri...

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 the demand for micro additive manufacturing as th...

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, Matthews explains the motivation behind setting up the AD...

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 market a vibration suppression method that sought to...

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 at industrial applications. On today’s episode, M...

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 adoption of the company’s flagship product so far, a...

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 China, with Liu providing insight on the Chinese 3...

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 discuss the prospect of consolidation in the ex...

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, Campbell explains how PIP technology works, where...