Additive Insight

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 the economic challenges for AM. They also ponder whe...

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 unit and joins the Additive Insight podcast to explai...

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 conversation between Todd Grimm and metal additive manufa...

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 setting up Ursa Major, Laurienti and his team have...

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 of ostomy bags and are adapted to the shape of st...

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 focused on creative adoption of 3D printing techn...

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 Executive Officer at Chromatic 3D Materials; Melissa Or...

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 rapid prototyper. Once published, he was encouraged...

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 Department of Defense, where it has generated most of its...

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 field of healthcare 3D printing. Throughout this p...

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 additive manufacturing began at Materialise in 2010, ti...

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 the subsidiary was set up, the application opportu...

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 at Objet and Stratasys led him to setting up his o...

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 Autodesk, the pair have gone in different directions. Rog...

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 December.  Their conversation spans from the closing o...

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 brought to market a range of materials via this metho...

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. The pair believe that AM and DfAM are in the Gart...

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 discusses the centre’s work with industrialising 3D pri...

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 million dollars in seed funding, and been named as one...

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 adopted by Toyota. We also touched on the multiple an...

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. As HP rolls out its latest version of the system, w...

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 mathematics, design and 3D printing to address challe...

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 represents the bulk of today’s conversation, with O’D...

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 additive manufacturing team in early 2022. Since then, h...

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 acquisition of Teton, Ultimaker was among the first to p...