Additive Insight

3D Systems' VP, Portfolio and Regulatory, Healthcare Ben Johnson sits down with Laura Gilmour, a Principal Consultant for AM and Regulatory Strategies for the Veterans Health Administration to discuss the medical applications that made them believe in 3D printing and the future of point of care manufacturing.

This year's TCT 3Sixty saw TCT teaming up with Women in 3D Printing once again to host its fourth panel session at the flagship UK additive manufacturing event. TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths was joined by Cristina Sesma, Women in 3D Printing UK Ambassador and Marketing Communications Specialist at Curvalux, and a panel of experts to discuss the role of 3D printing in sustainability, with a p...

On this week's Additive Insight podcast, Lithoz CEO Dr Johannes Homa joins us as our latest Executive Interview guest to reflect on a decade in the additive manufacturing industry. Having started out as students at the TU Wien, Homa founded the company alongside CTO Dr Johannes Benedikt with a vision to facilitate the additive manufacture of high-performance ceramics. Ten years later, the company...

On this episode of Additive Insight, we bring you the second instalment of our Innovators on Innovators series featuring industry consultant and Reeves Insight founder Dr Phil Reeves and Stratasys' EMEA President Andy Langfeld. Having known each other for seven years, Reeves and Langfeld reflect on the development of the additive manufacturing space in that time, offering insights on market segmen...

On this special episode of Additive Insight, TCT's Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies reflect on their first trade show in 18 months as TCT 3Sixty returns to the NEC Birmingham. Speaking live from the event, the team cover the biggest 3D printing news stories including launches from Photocentric, Wematter, E3D, T3DMC and more, alongside conference highlights and...

On this episode of Additive Insight, our Executive Interview series with an interview with Frank Roberts, Group President at 6K Additive. 6K Additive has developed a unique plasma technology that can turn virtually any scrap metal into materials for additive manufacturing. Its UniMelt technology is the world’s only microwave production-scale plasma system and currently used to produce a number of...

On this week’s Additive Insight podcast, Ultimaker Chief Technology Officer, Miguel Calvo joins us as our latest Executive Interview guest. Miguel joined the desktop 3D printing company back in February, having previously been a user of its popular extrusion-based machines, and now oversees R&D of Ultimaker’s product portfolio. Here, Miguel talks about how that hands-on experience is influencing t...

For the August edition of our Additive Insight Editorial Roundtable, TCT's Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies discuss the biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news from the last month. Desktop Metal headlines the show once again with yet another acquisition, this time a major $575 million deal which sees the 3D printing company bringing binder jet pion...

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths is joined by Sam O’Leary, CEO at metal additive manufacturing company SLM Solutions. With around 650 machines installed globally, the selective laser melting pioneer’s technology has been adopted everywhere from optimised metal components at Bugatti to landing gear at bizjet. But for this episode, we caught up wit...

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're continuing our Executive Interview series, this time with Co-founder and CEO of DyeMansion, Felix Ewald. The Munich-based company is a manufacturer of post-processing systems for 3D printed parts. As you’ll hear in this conversation, DyeMansion was founded as a by-product of another project founded by DyeMansion’s two co-founders back in 2013...

For July's Additive Insight Editorial Roundtable, TCT's Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies discuss the biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news from the last month. The trend for AM acquisitions continues as Desktop Metal, a company which has already brought a number of technologies into the fold over the last year, has acquired multi-material 3D prin...

On today’s episode we have a conversation with Kieron Salter, founder of the UK’s Digital Manufacturing Centre, which officially opens its doors at Silverstone Park this week. The engineering-led facility promises to be a real hub of additive and digital manufacturing, delivering industrial scale production, and education, for industries such as motorsport, aerospace and more. Here, Salter talks t...

On this Additive Insight Editorial Roundtable, TCT's Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies discuss the biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news from the last month. We kick things off with Markforged and perhaps the most organised Formnext announcement to date with a teaser for a new composite 3D printer that's been described by CEO Shai Terem as a "beas...

On this month's Additive Insight Editorial Roundtable, TCT's Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies discuss May's biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news. Kicking things off, Adidas has launched its latest 3D printed midsole, the 4DFWD, using Carbon's Digital Light Synthesis technology, and Daimler Buses has set up a 36m-squared mobile 3D printing centre...

For the first episode of our new Additive Insight "Innovators on Innovators" series, we have a conversation with Hans Langer, founder of industrial 3D printing company EOS and TCT Hall of Fame inductee whose early work in the laser industry has had a profound influence on today's laser-based AM technology; and Lin Kayser, a serial entrepreneur and CEO of AI-based design software company Hyperganic...

For the April edition of TCT's Additive Insight editorial roundtable, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies discuss the month's biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news. Starting with two sets of major machine launches, we discuss Stratasys' three new 3D printers including the first products from its Origin acquisition and Selective Absorption Fusion...

For this week's episode of Additive Insight, MakerBot CEO Nadav Goshen joins TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths as our latest Executive Interview guest. The Brooklyn based 3D printing company is perhaps one of the most recognisable brands in the AM industry, known for its desktop 3D printers which have evolved from hobbyist devices to professional manufacturing tools and adopted for industrial ap...

After a year which saw countless examples of 3D printing used to plug supply chain gaps and manufacture emergency components amid disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no question around what the subject of our first Additive Insight Industry Roundtable would be. Kicking off our new podcast series, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths is joined by three experts from across the additive...

On this month's Additive Insight editorial roundtable, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies discuss March's biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news stories. Following similar moves by Desktop Metal and Markforged over the last few months, we discuss VELO3D's announcement it is to go public with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) JAWS Spitfi...

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Laura Griffiths, TCT Head of Content is joined by Jonah Myerberg, Co-founder and CTO at Desktop Metal. The additive manufacturing company first made a name for itself as a pioneer of office friendly metal 3D printing with its compact Studio System, and, on the other end of the adoption curve, a Production System aimed at, you guessed it, serial prod...

For our latest Executive Interview, Nora Toure, Director for Sales and Service Factory Operations at Fast Radius and founder of Women in 3D Printing joins us on the Additive Insight podcast. With a background in additive manufacturing spanning online 3D printing services at Sculpteo to heavy industry at Ivaldi and now, working with one of the world’s leading digital factories at Fast Radius, we sp...

On this month's Additive Insight editorial roundtable, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Senior Content Producer Sam Davies discuss February's biggest 3D printing and additive manufacturing news stories. Continuing the trend for consolidation, we discuss Stratasys's acquisition of RPS as it ramps up its ambition to be "the first choice for polymer 3D printing", the launch of ExOne's new offi...

On this episode of Additive Insight, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths is joined by Tali Rosman, Xerox Vice President and General Manager for 3D Printing. The well-known 2D print giant made its play for the additive manufacturing market back in 2019 with the acquisition of start-up Vader Systems and its Liquid Metal 3D printing technology. Since then, Xerox has gone on to introduce its first met...

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, our Executive Interview series continues with a conversation with Carlos Zwikker, Chief Commercial Officer at AM-Flow. The Netherlands-based start-up is a developer of automation technologies which tackle the post-printing parts of the AM production workflow. Combining 3D-shape identification and a mix of hardware and software intelligence, AM Flow addre...

In the first of our new monthly editorial roundtable sessions, TCT editors Laura Griffiths and Sam Davies discuss some of the biggest and most-read 3D printing news story from the last month on the Additive Insight podcast. On this episode we cover two big acquisition stories including Desktop Metal's takeover of DLP additive manufacturing pioneer EnvisionTEC, and Protolabs' acquisition of online...