Additive Insight

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 patient-specific anatomic models, including devices mi...

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 emerged in that time, why realising additive’s de...

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 Manager. DuoForm is a thermoforming plastics company th...

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 standout themes of reliability, multi-laser capabil...

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 offering a software suite that leans on machine learni...

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 manufacturing technologies being developed in Ch...

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 to manufacture dust collection and vacuum systems...

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 its RX-AM technology platform, and today offers a...

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 the company a decade ago, the growth of its product...

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 companies have led the way in incorporating 3D printi...

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 comes after a six year R&D journey that has also...

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, explains the proprietary Selective Diffusion Bonding...

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 spring of 2022 to help drive the company’s growth in...

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 are both credited as founders of the Photopolymer...

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 the brand change, the motivation behind acquiring...

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 his R&D journey as he worked to commercialise the...

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 engineering, growth plans, and the next generation of met...

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 including repeatability, additive economics and what's...

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 apply a technology known at the time as rapid pro...

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’ is poised to be multi-material, functional additiv...

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, and how their membrane technologies will impact t...

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 faster than its closest competitor and has been desig...

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. Twenty five years on from 3D Systems’ commercialisatio...

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.