Additive Insight

Jan 26 2025 217 ep. 39 mins 19

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Welcome to Additive Insight, the original additive manufacturing industry podcast, your source for news, interviews and comment on the latest 3D printing and AM intelligence, brought to you by the TCT content team.

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#216 Marleen Vogelaar & Jules Witte on saving the Shapeways brand & what comes next

Jan 26 2025 42 mins

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Shapeways CEO Marleen Vogelaar and COO Jule Witte. Six months ago, the pair were part of a new management team that set about rescuing the Shapeways business in the Netherlands after the company filed for bankruptcy. As they join us on the Additive Insight podcast, they explain why they felt compelled to step in t

#215 ‘To the moon’ – Josef Prusa on open sourcing, print farms and his vision for Prusa Research

Jan 16 2025 32 mins

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Prusa Research founder and CEO Josef Prusa. Prusa was founded in 2012 off the back of the RepRap movement and has gone on to become one of the most renowned manufacturers of desktop FDM and SLA 3D printers. At Formnext 2024, Prusa sat down with TCT Group Content Manager Sam Davies to discuss the company's rise, th

#214 AM in 2024: Bankruptcies, mergers and increased investment in automotive, aerospace & defence

Dec 22 2024 72 mins

On the final Additive Insight episode of the year, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths and Group Content Manager Sam Davies get together to discuss the biggest trends and developments in AM over the last 12 months. They discuss: - Why Nano Dimension is acquiring both Desktop Metal & markforged, as well as the pressure Nano faces from a vocal shareholder. - BMW's successful app

#213 Mosaic Manufacturing: “We always had a vision around a future where AM could be used at scale”

Dec 11 2024 35 mins

Our guest on this week’s episode of Additive Insight is Mitch Debora, CEO and co-founder of Mosaic Manufacturing. Mosaic Manufacturing is a Canadian 3D printing technology developer. Its flagship Array technology, a cluster of its Element printers, enabled by a robotic automation system, is focused on layering core automation tools into additive manufacturing to enable the techn

#212 Continuum CEO on building a circular metal economy for additive manufacturing

Dec 05 2024 38 mins

On this week’s episode of Additive Insight we’re joined by Rob Higby, CEO of Continuum Powders. Continuum is a specialist in high-performance sustainable metal powders for advanced manufacturing, particularly additive. Its Greyhound M2P platform is able to transform alloyed metal waste into sustainable, spherical metal powders via a single step process, and serves industries s

#211 Conflux Technology CEO Michael Fuller on the design & manufacture of 3D printed heat exchangers

Dec 01 2024 34 mins

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by Conflux Technology CEO Michael Fuller. Fuller founded Conflux Technology around ten years ago after spending a decade and a half in the motorsport industry where he identified the opportunities in additively manufactured heat exchangers. So, the company has developed a portfolio that includes liquid to liquid, gas

#210 Kate Black & Alexander Pluke on the need for solutions-based thinking in AM materials

Nov 24 2024 48 mins

On the latest episode of our Innovators on Innovators series, Kate Black, the founder and CEO of Atomik AM, is joined by Additive Flow founder and CEO Alexander Pluke. Atomik AM is a manufacturing business that offers licenses to its advanced manufacturing technologies, as well as consultancy and training, while Additive Flow is an additive manufacturing workflow software provide

#208 DigiFabster CEO Const Ivanov on the company’s Shopify-like offering to the manufacturing market

Nov 10 2024 40 mins

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined by DigiFabster founder and CEO Const Ivanov. DigiFabster is an instant quotation and eCommerce platform for CNC and additive manufacturing shops, with hundreds of manufacturers leveraging the company’s capabilities. Ivanov joins the podcast to discuss what prompted him to start the business, how the company uses ma

#209 EOS' Virginia Palacios on the productivity enhancements of the P3 NEXT powder bed fusion system

Nov 10 2024 28 mins

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we’re joined by Virginia Palacios, the Chief Business Officer of EOS’ Polymer Business, as the company launches its latest powder bed fusion system. The P3 NEXT machine has been built on the success of EOS’ P396 system and will be officially unveiled at Formnext this week. As EOS launches the new machine, Palacios joins the

#207 ‘We are a materials first company’ – Supernova 3D founders on Viscous Lithography Manufacturing

Nov 03 2024 35 mins

On this episode of the Additive Insight podcast, we're joined Supernova 3D CEO Roger Antunez and CBO Marta Mico Martinez. Supernova 3D was founded earlier this year when BCN3D carved out its Viscous Lithography Manufacturing technology into a separate entity. Having previously worked at BCN3D for a number of years, Antunez and Martinez were named as founders of the new company,