Additive Insight

For 2020’s last episode of Additive Insight (and our 50th episode to date), TCT editors Laura Griffiths and Sam Davies gather around the virtual mic for a round up of the year’s biggest 3D printing stories. We reflect on exclusive interviews with industry leaders, significant launches and the impact of COVID-19 on the perception of additive manufacturing. For a month by month rundown of the year's...

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths speaks to Byron Kennedy, CEO of Australian additive manufacturing company SPEE3D. Launched in 2017, SPEE3D is known for its supersonic 3D deposition process, an ultra-fast additive technique adapted from metal cold spray technology. With two machines now available on the market, both capable of producing fast, low-cost...

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, TCT speaks to Dr Lee-Bath Nelson, Co-founder and VP Business at additive manufacturing software as a service company LEO Lane. Since its founding in 2014, LEO Lane has been developing cloud based solutions which control, protect, and track 3D printed products and files. On this episode we discuss increasing IP challenges as additive moves further into pr...

On this weeks episode of Additive Insight, the TCT content team reflect on a busy week at Formnext Connect including the biggest launches from the virtual floor, interviews with exhibitors and highlights from the TCT Conference @ Formnext Connect. Expect details on new additive manufacturing hardware from the likes of SLM Solutions, Additive Industries and Wematter, plus insight from conversations...

On this week’s episode of Additive Insight, The TCT Group’s outgoing Head of Content Daniel O’Connor gets his turn in the hot seat as the editorial team bid a fond farewell and gather his thoughts on eight years in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry including the biggest trends, changes and technology developments. From starting out with "Thingi Thursdays" and Buzzfeed-style listicles on TCT...

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, we're joined by Randy Altschuler, CEO of on-demand manufacturing marketplace, Xometry. Earlier this year, TCT spoke with Randy about the importance of localised manufacturing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Q&A, we elaborate on that idea by discussing the benefits distributed manufacturing can provide going forward, how Xometry is enabling that with...

This week, nTopology CEO Bradley Rothenberg joins us on the Additive Insight podcast. Last year the New York-based software company brought its TCT Award-winning nTop platform to market, promising the next generation of engineering design tools for advanced manufacturing. With hundreds of users already said to be working with the technology and global expansion underway, TCT spoke with Brad shortl...

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, Steve Chillscyzn, CEO of Evolve Additive and inventor of STEP (Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process) technology joins us to discuss additive manufacturing (AM) for production. Evolve Additive is an AM start-up which spun out from Stratasys in 2018. With investment from Stanley Black & Decker and the Lego Brand Group supporting its res...

On this this episode of Additive Insight, TCT Deputy Group Editor Laura Griffiths speaks to Xavier Martínez Faneca, CEO of Barcelona-based 3D printing company BCN3D. BCN3D is manufacturer of polymer extrusion-based desktop 3D printers, which spun out of the Polytechnic university of Catalonia. From automotive to fashion, the company is said to have an install base of around 5,000 machines employed...

On this week's episode of Additive Insight, TCT Deputy Group Editor Laura Griffiths is joined by Max Lobovsky, Co-founder and CEO of leading 3D printing company Formlabs. From its origins as a Kickstarter success story which grew out of the MIT Media Lab back in 2012, Formlabs has gone on to become one of a handful of unicorn status companies in the additive space with its popular desktop stereoli...

On the latest episode of our Additive Insight podcast, Deputy Group Editor Laura Griffiths speaks to Sherry Handel, Executive Director at the Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA). The AMGTA is a global non-profit organisation which was setup in November last year to promote the green benefits of additive manufacturing in order to accelerate the adoption of the technology. Througho...

In the latest episode of our Additive Insight Executive Interview series, Deputy Group Editor Laura Griffiths speaks to Ellen Kullman, CEO of Carbon. Since its launch in 2015, The Silicon Valley 3D printing unicorn's Digital Light Synthesis technology has been adopted to manufacture everything from parts for Lamborghini to critical items on the frontline of the COVID19 pandemic. Kullman, who took...

In our first live stream, TCT editors Daniel O'Connor, Sam Davies and Laura Griffiths present a behind the scenes tour of Photocentric's Magna 3D print farm, which is busy working to fulfil an order of 7 million protective face shields for the NHS. You can now listen to the full interview featuring Photocentric’s 3D Development Engineer Ed Barlow on our Additive Insight podcast, along with a discu...

In the latest episode of Additive Insight, we bring you another Executive Q&A, this time with President and CEO of Protolabs, Vicki Holt. As the digital manufacturing company marks its 21st anniversary, Deputy Group Editor Laura Griffiths talks to Holt about developments in additive manufacturing and Protolabs' fleet of over 170 AM systems, why the 'digital thread' is becoming increasingly importa...

In this episode of Additive Insight, Dan, Laura and Sam catch up from the comfort of their spare rooms, hot desks and sheds to discuss the latest features inside TCT Magazine and how the 3D printing industry is responding to the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to covering the latest in healthcare, post-processing and architecture & construction, Sam explores the growing prevalence of subscription mod...

In this episode of Additive Insight, Deputy Group Editor Laura Griffiths talks to Materialise founder and CEO Fried Vancraen about 30 years of additive manufacturing innovation. The conversation takes us from the early days when Fried realised this technology would signal a paradigm shift, to building out a software backbone for AM and the meaningful applications that followed. The TCT Hall of Fam...

In this episode, the editorial team gets together to discuss places they’ve been and conferences they’ve seen before diving into what’s coming up at this year’s RAPID + TCT.

In this episode of the Additive Insight, Deputy Group Editor Laura Griffiths chats to Marie Langer, recently appointed CEO of German additive manufacturing leader EOS. Marie took over the company from her father Dr. Hans Langer in October last year and is on a mission to lead 3D printing to become a mainstream, sustainable manufacturing process. In this interview we talk to Marie about being immer...

We're continuing our executive interview series into 2021 with insights from Andreas Langfeld, President EMEA at Stratasys, who joins us on the Additive Insight podcast to discuss the last 12 months, future plans and that $100 million Origin acquisition. Speaking to Andy towards the end of a last year, we discussed resilience, and how despite the challenges of 2020, Stratasys successfully launched...

The final day of TCT Show 2019 saw the third annual #3DTalk panel session take place on the Tech Stage in collaboration with Women in 3D Printing and Cyant. This year’s session, co-chaired by Kadine James, 3D Tech Lead at Hobs 3D, shone a spotlight on software for additive manufacturing. A panel of expert speakers including Janet Kar, CMO at Link3D, Lieve Boeykens, Product Manager Inspector, Direc...

On the final day of this year's TCT Show Dan, Sam and Sandra sat down to discuss the previous night's TCT Awards ceremony.

Here at TCT Show 2019, the TCT editorial time sat down with Dr Phil Reeves to discuss the state of the 3D printing and additive manufacturing industry.

North America’s biggest additive manufacturing event, RAPID + TCT landed in Detroit last week, bringing over 400 exhibiting companies together to showcase the latest and greatest in 3D technologies. The TCT team was there to get the latest updates first-hand with plenty more interviews and insight to come over the following weeks and in our annual RAPID + TCT Review. Here, we roundup some of the b...

One we've been looking to get up for a while here folks. Earlier in the year, Dan caught up with the author and co-founder of Fast Company, Bill Taylor. Bill is the opening keynote at RAPID + TCT in Detroit next week and his research of how companies deal with transformational change is apt for the fast-paced world of additive manufacturing.

Team TCT spent last week in Chicago at the 31st Additive Manufacturing Users Group Conference. Deputy Group Editor, Laura Griffiths and Assistant Editor, Sam Davies sat down to discuss the keynotes, surprising launches and applications that were the talk of the industry’s largest gathering of 3D printing users. Listen to learn more about Formlabs' new Form 3 series, Stratasys' move into stereolith...