Exclusive Interviews
SuperMeat: the Future Intel of Cultured 3D Printed Chicken?
Commercializing cell-cultured meat is turning into a sought-after undertaking for food entrepreneurs. After Singapore became the first nation to approve the sale of cultivated meat in December 2020, the Israeli…
On the Ground with XJet’s New CEO: Ceramics & Metal 3D Printing Growth On Display
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the pleasure of visiting the headquarters of metal and ceramics 3D printing provider XJet in Rehovot Science Park. My visit came about…
A Trip to Nano Dimension HQ: Electronics 3D Printing Live and In-Person
Earlier this month, I traveled to Israel for a 3D printing event and several site visits. The final company I had the opportunity to see while in the Tel Aviv…
Siemens Discusses Industrialization of 3D Printing at New CATCH Lab in NC
Siemens has already had a substantial role in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry for some time. Not only has the German technology company seen its industrial controls integrated into countless…
FATHOM’s Vision for Consolidating 3D Printing Services: A Talk with CEO Ryan Martin
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry is in the midst of an enormous upheaval in too many ways to count. Just one of those ways, however, is the consolidation that is…
A Man, a Plan, a 3D Printed Hypercar: A Talk with Divergent 3D’s Kevin Czinger
As founder of Divergent Technologies, Kevin Czinger belongs to that new generation of CEOs. That is, his vision for his company and the technology that it produces isn’t limited by…
How this Medtech Startup Found a Niche Bioprinting Tumor Models
In the battle against a disease that kills roughly 26,000 people each day, the importance of greater speed in drug development is critical. In 2018, an estimated 9.5 million people…
Bioprinting and Industrial 3D Printing Converge: 3D Systems CEO Dr. Jeff Graves
Now that Jeff Graves has served as president and CEO of 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) for nearly two years, we are able to gain better insight into his leadership style. We can…
Improving Boeing’s ROI with 3D Printing MES Software: An Interview with Authentise
In a recent interview, Andre Wegner, CEO and Co-Founder of Authentise, highlighted that the company’s software achieved a reduction in the time it takes to process an order by 80…
Mimaki’s Mark Sollman Dives into Full Color 3D Printing
Mimaki’s color 3D printing technology definitely has the wow factor, but how will the company grow in 3D printing? And how will it try to grow its market? Product Manager…
CORE Consolidates 3D Printing Industry with Acquisition Spree: Interview with Founder John May
CORE Industrial Partners is a private equity firm in Chicago, made up of experienced investment professionals and former CEOs, with $700 million worth of capital commitments investing in lower middle-market…
Horse Saved with 3D Printing Makes for the Best Christmas Present Ever
Andrew Allshorn is the owner of 3D-SQUARED, which has been offering high-end manufacturing services and consulting since 2007. He started as a stereolithography (SLA) technician at the University of Liverpool in…
Oerlikon CEO Roland Fischer: “It’s About Optimizing the 3D Printing Process”
Roland Fischer is the CEO of Oerlikon, a 10,000-employee group with revenues in excess of $2 billion and active in a range of industrial areas. The conglomerate has a significant…
Custom 3D Printed Prosthesis Can Brave the Seven Seas
Worldwide demand for prosthetic specialists is rising, and for good reason: each year in the US, over 150,000 people undergo lower limb amputations, and while that number is considerably lower…
Wozniak’s Privateer Space Unveils 3D Printed Satellite for Monitoring Space Debris
When news came out that Desktop Metal had developed titanium for its Studio 2 desktop 3D printer, one piece of information that was little explored by other media sites was…
Interview with Michael Fuller, CEO of 3D Printed Heat Exchanger Firm Conflux Technology
Michael Fuller heads up Conflux Technology, an Australian firm that uses powder bed fusion to make heat exchangers for automotive, racing, power electronics, power generation, and aerospace. The company has…
De-Hyper: Can 3D Printing Alone Solve the Climate Crisis? Probably Not.
Given the compounding human-caused, ecological crises facing life on earth at the moment, I’ve been interested in speaking to experts to understand what role, if any, 3D printing and technology…
The Slow 3D Printing Software Revolution with Materialise
While attending RAPID + TCT a few weeks ago, I sat down with Bryan Crutchfield, the Vice President and General Manager – North America at Materialise (NASDAQ: MTLS), to discuss…
Space 3D Printing and Nanostructures: How Goodman Technologies Pioneers New Space Tech
In the last few years, the private space industry has created a cost-competitive ecosystem as the boundaries of space exploration expand. While a growing number of private firms are heavily…
RAPID + TCT 2021 Day 2: 3D Printing with Inkbit, Farsoon, AON3D, & Raise3D
At the recent RAPID + TCT 2021 in Chicago, I had the opportunity to attend keynote presentations, interview several industry companies, watch an awards ceremony, and walk the show floor….
RAPID + TCT 2021: Markforged Talks New Eiger Fleet 3D Printing Software
The RAPID + TCT 2021 three-day event delivered a considerable influx of products from 3D printing companies, including Markforged’s new cloud-based software solution for its printers called Eiger Fleet. In…
3D Systems at RAPID + TCT 2021: Oqton Acquisition & David Leigh Interview
In early September, 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced an agreement to acquire software startup Oqton, a global SaaS company that offers an agnostic, intelligent, cloud-based Manufacturing Operating System (MOS) platform which automates the end-to-end…
VELO3D Goes Public: We Speak to CEO Benny Buller
VELO3D (NYSE: VLD) went public today with the company listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “VLD”. The company merged with JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corporation…
Shapeways Begins Trading on NYSE, Secures $103M in SPAC Merger
Shapeways, the leading 3D printing service bureau that makes digital manufacturing accessible to anyone, has completed its merger deal with blank check company Galileo Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: GLEO) and began…
