It’s time to seek out out who gained the 2024 3D Printing Business Awards.
This 12 months, we have a good time probably the most progressive 3D printing functions, the main 3D printing startups, and extra established firms, such because the 3D printing business firm of the 12 months.
The awards endeavor to symbolize the wealthy range throughout the business; this 12 months’s winners, honorable mentions, and nominees span the market from desktop to industrial. We’re all the time looking for methods to enhance, so please get in contact with any options.
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Winners of the 2024 3D Printing Business Awards
3D Designer of the 12 months
Winner: Divergent 3D
Honorable Point out: Andreas Vlahinos – Optimized Warmth Exchanger
3D Scanning or Metrology Firm
Winner: Shining3D
Honorable Point out: Artec
Educational, analysis group, or mission
Winner: Singapore Centre for 3D Printing
Honorable Point out: ADAPT Heart, Colorado Faculty of Mines
“Within the 12 months that we’re celebrating our 10th anniversary this an vital milestone and the popularity of our function in creating, selling and pushing the boundaries of additive manufacturing,” stated Prof. Paulo Jorge Bártolo, Govt Director, Singapore Centre for 3D Printing (SC3DP). “Along with a lot of industrial companions we’re shaping the way forward for additive manufacturing, creating sooner, extra dependable, and sensible additive manufacturing techniques and utilizing additive manufacturing as a platform to develop novel supplies with improved and managed properties for aerospace and protection, biomedical engineering, constructing and building, electronics, and marine & offshore functions,” added Prof. Bártolo.
Aerospace, Area, or Protection Utility
Winner: NASA JPL with REM Floor Engineering, PBF-LB/Ti-6Al-4V Crush Lattices for Mars Pattern Return Mission
Honorable Point out: Sintavia – AM for the Subsequent-Technology of Hypersonic Propulsion
Dr. Ryan T Watkins, PhD, Analysis Scientist, Supplies Growth & Additive Manufacturing at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Expertise, stated, “Doing one thing new is all the time laborious. Doing one thing new on a flagship NASA mission is even more durable. The group has carried out an awesome job making this 3D printed crushable lattice a actuality, starting from the event of UnitcellHub, a brand new opensource lattice design software program software, to the event of a novel chemical etching postprocess with our associate REM Floor Ending to allow ultra-low density crushables. In some ways, this work exemplifies our work within the 3D printing business, and NASA as an entire, utilizing it to create mild, excessive efficiency constructions in ways in which had been by no means earlier than doable.”
Justin Michaud, CEO at REM Floor Engineering, stated, “For REM, being part of profitable this award is a validation and celebration of the work that we’ve been doing within the metallic AM business for the previous ~15 years. A lot of what we do, supporting AM functions with our floor ending know-how, is very confidential, and, consequently, we frequently don’t get to share or talk about the developments and capabilities that we assist to allow. As an organization, we frequently say that we’re the parents to return to with the laborious challenges, and Dr. Watkins actually did! From concentrating on wall thicknesses of ~100 µm to executing >80% as printed mass reductions with tolerances of <0.5%, this work actually pushed REM to extend our capabilities. However, NASA JPL is one among our longest-running and most constant clients, and we’re happy with the belief we’ve gained and the partner-like relationship we share with them. So, to be part of profitable this award in assist of NASA JPL’s crush lattice mission is exceptionally rewarding.”
“The idea of lattice constructions was envisioned because the very starting of the 3D printing revolution. Sadly, their complexity has slowed their adoption. My hope is that this work emboldens others to push into this rising design area to do issues in ways in which we’ve by no means carried out them earlier than,” added Dr. Watkins.
REM Floor Engineering’s Justin Michaud continued, “The work that Dr. Watkins has led and that we’ve supported in creating light-weight crush lattices has probably broad functions throughout a variety of industries. Defending the Mars Samples is clearly a really difficult software, however the potential to use these ideas to aerospace, automotive, and different functions is critical. For REM particularly, the elevated course of management that this work drove inside has already led to a number of of recent functionality enhancements and related work in areas comparable to complicated warmth exchanger functions. There aren’t many applied sciences that may controllably take away free and partially sintered powder from complicated, multi-domain inside floor functions, however a lot of the work we did with JPL on these crush lattices has led to and aided in our potential to deal with the inherent cleanliness points of those printed elements. Normally, working with JPL and different NASA branches has been an enormous profit to each REM and the metallic AM business as they fund the analysis that’s wanted to push these superior manufacturing capabilities ahead.”
Group Advocate of the 12 months
Winner: Duann Scott, Director 3MF Consortium
Honorable Point out: Teula Bradshaw, Sanjay Mortimer Basis
Duann Scott, Director of the 3MF Consortium and winner of the 2024 3DPI Award’s Group Advocate of the 12 months stated, “Because the additive manufacturing business grows by it’s painful adolescence and matures into turning into a productive a part of the broader manufacturing ecosystem, contributing extra than simply naive enthusiasm and attractiveness, it’s vital that the software program we use to create the designs assist direct this brash upstart to essentially begin paying it’s means in society. That the knowledge/knowledge we feed the machines have the entire nutrient wealthy knowledge required for wholesome and sustained progress into manufacturing maturity.
I’m grateful for the chance by the CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, 3MF Consortium and MIT AMX to assist construct the neighborhood of individuals able to nurturing this progress, the optimistic impacts it would have on our society for generations, and the popularity from 3DPI with this award that displays extra on the folks I’ve labored with and discovered from alongside the best way, than something I’ve carried out to assist them,” added Duann Scott, Director 3MF Consortium.
Teula Bradshaw, CEO Sanjay Mortimer Basis, stated, “We’re deeply honoured to obtain this recognition from the 3D Printing Business Awards. For the Sanjay Mortimer Basis (SMF), this excessive rating by readers and consultants serves as a strong validation of our mission: to empower younger neurodiverse engineers and makers to understand their potential and thrive in industries like 3D printing.
This acknowledgment displays not solely the fervour we pour into our work but in addition the business’s shared perception within the distinctive contributions neurodiverse people convey. By supporting them, we intention to make sure that no expertise slips by the cracks and that these sensible minds can entry alternatives to innovate and develop.
This recognition amplifies our mission and demonstrates that the 3D printing neighborhood values inclusivity and numerous views. We’re extremely grateful for this assist, which inspires us to proceed fostering creativity, confidence, and empowerment in future innovators.”
Bradshaw added, “The Sanjay Mortimer Basis believes that neurodiverse minds are uniquely suited to the ever-evolving world of 3D printing. Their potential to assume in a different way, problem conventions, and discover inventive options aligns completely with an business that thrives on innovation and fast change.
By offering mentorship, assets, and alternatives, we intention to construct a pipeline of gifted people whose distinctive views can drive the subsequent wave of breakthroughs in 3D printing. These younger engineers and makers not solely convey contemporary concepts to the desk but in addition symbolize a vital step towards making a extra inclusive and dynamic workforce throughout the business.
This honourable point out by the 3D Printing Business Awards reinforces our perception on this mission, and we’re excited to see how the people we assist will form the way forward for additive manufacturing.”
Firm of the 12 months (Enterprise)
Winner: Autodesk
Honorable Point out: Nikon SLM Options
Alexander Freund, Director Product Administration, Fusion Manufacturing at Autodesk stated, “Being chosen as Firm of the 12 months (Enterprise) for 2024 is an amazing honor for us, particularly given the power of the nominees. It reaffirms our perception that our strategy—creating an reasonably priced, easy-to-use, but extremely highly effective mass-market platform like Fusion—is really driving Additive Manufacturing towards turning into a mainstream know-how.”
Firm of the 12 months (Private)
Winner: Bambu Lab
Honorable Point out: Prusa Analysis
Desktop FFF 3D Printer of the 12 months
Winner: Bambu Lab A1 & AMS
Honorable Point out: Prusa Analysis XL
Desktop non-FFF 3D Printer of the 12 months
Winner: Formlabs Type 4
Honorable Point out: Elegoo Saturn 4 Extremely
Dávid Lakatos CPO at Formlabs stated, “Type 4 is a large leap in our mission to allow anybody to convey their concepts to life. We invested years of growth into creating Type 4 to usher in a brand new period of resin 3D printing, with blazing quick speeds and unprecedented reliability. We’re honored the knowledgeable committee and readers on the 2024 3D Printing Business Awards acknowledged Type 4’s influence by naming it the Desktop non-FFF 3D Printer of the 12 months.”
The Formlabs CPO added, “We made 3D printing reasonably priced and accessible, and Type 4 has accelerated 3D printing exercise and adoption. The printer’s excessive speeds and reliability have caught the eye of consumers at prime manufacturers together with NASA, Ford, and Microsoft, and we anticipate this quick printer to proceed to broaden 3D printing functions throughout new industries and use instances. 3D printing has traditionally by no means had the speeds and reliability to outpace injection molding, and Type 4 is the primary 3D printer that allows innovators, producers, and product designers to reimagine merchandise with versatile design and quick print instances at an reasonably priced value.”
Enterprise 3D Printer of the 12 months (Metals)
Winner: Meltio M600
Honorable Point out: EOS M290
Lukas Hoppe, Meltio‘s Analysis & Growth Director, stated, “We thank the whole viewers and the 3DPI AM household for the award given this 12 months 2024 to Meltio and its new and strongest industrial metallic 3D printer, Meltio M600. This recognition is a assist to all of the innovation effort of all of the groups which might be a part of Meltio. The design transient for the brand new Meltio M600 was to think about what the proper 3D printer for the machine store would appear like. The overwhelming majority of metallic 3D printed components require post-processing which is carried out within the machine store and since our ambition is to push the large-scale adoption of metallic additive manufacturing we’ve a really clear imaginative and prescient that the trendy machine store is the best level of entry. Manufacturing faces many challenges globally, from lengthy lead instances and stock-keeping prices brought on by lengthy and fragile provide chains to an ever-growing stress to decrease prices and scale back emissions.
3D Printing has big potential to deal with these points because it helps scale back lead instances, and manufacturing dependencies by printing components in-house, reduces warehouse stock because the uncooked materials might be reworked into the ultimate half on demand, and reduces prices by making use of materials solely the place it’s wanted.”
Meltio’s R&D Director added, “The Meltio M600 for us was actually the subsequent logical step on our steady journey in direction of mass adoption of Wire-Laser DED, the method all Meltio techniques are primarily based on. We started this work in earnest in 2019 after we began to depart the prototyping house with the launch of the Meltio M450. After studying from and enhancing the know-how for 3 years, the time was lastly ripe for us to work on the subsequent system. Our objective with the Meltio M600 was to strike the precise steadiness between machine dimension, price, and productiveness whereas being uncompromising on high quality, reliability, and ease of use. To realize this, we didn’t simply create a “scaled up” M450, as a substitute, we developed each single a part of the machine from scratch to take the know-how to the subsequent degree, primarily based on the learnings of getting manufactured and put in over 400 Laser Meltio DED techniques all over the world from 2019.”
Enterprise 3D printer of the 12 months (polymers)
Winner: EOS FORMIGA P 110 FDR
Honorable Point out: Axtra3D Lumia X1
Rajeev Kulkarni, Chief Technique Officer, Axtra3D stated, “Receiving an honorable point out for Enterprise 3D Printer of the 12 months (Polymers) is a proud recognition of the dedication, innovation, and dedication we’ve invested in advancing additive manufacturing with our Hybrid PhotoSynthesis (HPS) know-how.
At Axtra3D, our mission has all the time been to allow photopolymerization-based manufacturing with out compromises, delivering a seamless steadiness of print throughput, floor high quality, accuracy, decision, and half dimension. By merging the perfect attributes of laser-based SLA and projector-based DLP into one cohesive system, we’ve set a brand new normal for manufacturing 3D Printing.
This recognition is a testomony to the transformative worth our Lumia X1 brings to clients, serving to them push the boundaries of what’s doable with additive manufacturing. It conjures up us to proceed driving innovation and empowering producers to surpass the restrictions of standard SLA and DLP applied sciences.”
Axtra3D’s CSO added, “Our mission is to allow a future the place manufacturing is smarter, sooner, and extra sustainable. By integrating cutting-edge know-how with the enterprise components that matter most to our clients, we intention to not solely advance the business but in addition equip our clients with the instruments they should thrive in a quickly evolving panorama. We’re proud to assist form the way forward for 3D printing, creating pathways for innovation and enterprise success.”
Innovation of the 12 months
Winner: MIT 3D Printed Glass Bricks
Honorable Point out: xolo Volumetric 3D printing
Stephan Kühr, Chief Business Officer at xolo GmbH, stated, “This recognition highlights the rising pleasure round utilizing 3D printing for superior functions like fabricating lenses and optical components in seconds. It’s validation from the 3D printing neighborhood that our Xolography know-how is addressing actual market wants and creating new potentialities. This acknowledgment conjures up us to collaborate with much more innovators desperate to push boundaries.”
Persevering with xolo’s CCO added, “Xolography is without doubt one of the only a few applied sciences that may actually scale 3D printing. Its layer-free strategy permits quick and exact manufacturing of isotropic constructions, making it uniquely fitted to large-scale manufacturing in functions like optics, bioprinting, and past. As we refine and broaden our capabilities, we intention to shut the hole between prototyping and mass manufacturing, unlocking groundbreaking potential throughout industries.”
Materials Firm of the 12 months
Winner: Steel Powder Works
Honorable Point out: 6K Additive
John Barnes, CEO, Steel Powder Works stated, “This was a real David and Goliath story from the outset. My Co-Founder Chris Aldridge and I got down to re-think what feedstocks wanted to be for metallic AM, and consistency was on the prime. We solely began producing powder for purchasers in 2022 and now to be nominated in the identical group as final 12 months’s winner BASF, and this 12 months’s nominees is unbelievable! That is actually a testomony to our group, who’ve labored so laborious to convey the DirectPowder™ techniques on-line and supply 16 metallic powders which might be probably the most constant, the best high quality, value aggressive, and emit much less CO2.”
The Steel Powder Works CEO added, “AM wants extra manufacturing of extra powders and our know-how accomplishes this with a really excessive effectivity and low powder dimension distribution. Beginning with premium bar inventory, our progressive know-how converts these alloys for purchasers and would be the ONLY devoted home supply for the total vary of copper and bronze alloys.”
Medical Dental or Healthcare Utility
Winner: Stryker’s Infinity Complete Ankle System
Honorable Point out: Lithoz & Profactor INKplant – First Ceramic Jaw Implant
Mobility or Vitality Utility
Winner: Basic Motors – Cadillac Celestiq EV with 100+ 3D Printed Parts
Honorable Point out: Oak Ridge Nationwide Lab & DoE – Hydropower Technology with Speedy RUNNERS
Brennon White, Technical Specialist – Superior Manufacturing, Basic Motors, stated, “It’s extremely particular for our group to win this award given the effort and time we’ve put into increasing our technical experience in additive manufacturing. With greater than 100 3D printed components within the manufacturing car, the CELESTIQ demonstrates GMs broadest use of additive manufacturing which is extraordinarily distinctive.”
GM’s White added, “The funding GM has made in additive manufacturing is a transparent indicator of the corporate’s confidence on this know-how and its potential. We undoubtedly see vital alternative for the usage of this know-how in further applications sooner or later.”
Software program software or firm of the 12 months
Winner: Orca Slicer
Honorable Point out: nTop
Li Jiang (aka Softfever) founder and maintainer of the OrcaSlicer mission, Noisyfox, principal contributor, and Ioannis Giannakas(aka igiannakas), principal contributor, advised us extra about what profitable the 3DPI Award means, “It’s actually a blast! Successful this award means an awesome deal to our open-source neighborhood and me personally. It’s a testomony to the laborious work and dedication of all contributors who’ve performed their half in making Orca Slicer what it’s at present. This recognition displays our dedication to innovation and excellence within the 3D printing business, in addition to our mission to supply accessible and high-quality software program that meets the varied wants of the neighborhood, from new customers to the geeks.”
The Orca Slicer group continued, “We’re tremendous enthusiastic about pushing the boundaries in 3D printing! We plan to maintain innovating and making Orca Slicer even higher, so it could possibly assist everybody—from newbies to consultants—create superb issues. Whether or not it’s for off-the-shelf printers or DIY printers, we need to be sure that Orca Slicer makes 3D printing extra accessible and enjoyable for all customers.”
Begin-up of the 12 months
Winner: Hyphen Improvements
Honorable Point out: 3D Spark
Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing
Winner: 6K Additive
Honorable Point out: WASP & United Nations
Worth-added Reseller of the 12 months
Winner: MatterHackers
Honorable Point out: Stable Print3D
Lars Brubaker, CEO of MatterHackers stated, “Successful the Worth-added Reseller of the 12 months award is an unbelievable honor for all of us at MatterHackers. It’s a testomony to our group’s dedication to offering distinctive service, progressive options, and complete assist to our clients. This award displays our dedication to empowering makers, educators, and companies by making 3D printing accessible and sensible for everybody. We’re deeply grateful to the neighborhood for his or her assist and recognition, because it validates our efforts to not solely meet however exceed the expectations of the 3D printing neighborhood. This award conjures up us to proceed contributing positively to the business’s progress and growth.”
Brubaker added, “At MatterHackers, we envision our work as a catalyst for innovation and creativity within the 3D printing house. We’re dedicated to increasing the attain and potential of 3D printing by offering cutting-edge merchandise, academic assets, and unparalleled assist. We’re significantly proud to be increasing our enterprise by providing print companies and upkeep packages/restore, which be sure that our clients can depend on their 3D printing tools to carry out optimally. These companies enable us to assist a broader vary of functions and industries, making certain that 3D printing stays a viable and environment friendly answer for complicated challenges. Our objective is to proceed driving developments in know-how that can allow new functions throughout numerous industries, from healthcare and schooling to aerospace and manufacturing. By fostering a neighborhood of makers and innovators, we intention to encourage and equip the subsequent technology of creators to push the boundaries of what’s doable with 3D printing.”
| 3D Printing Business Award Class | Winner |
| 3D Designer of the 12 months | Divergent 3D |
| 3D Scanning or Metrology Firm | Shining3D |
| Educational, analysis group, or mission | Singapore Centre for 3D Printing |
| Aerospace, Area or Protection Utility | NASA JPL with REM Floor Engineering |
| Group Advocate of the 12 months | Duann Scott, Director 3MF Consortium |
| Firm of the 12 months (Enterprise) | Autodesk |
| Firm of the 12 months (Private) | Bambu Lab |
| Desktop FFF 3D Printer of the 12 months | Bambu Lab A1 & AMS |
| Desktop non-FFF 3D Printer of the 12 months | Formlabs Type 4 |
| Enterprise 3D Printer of the 12 months (Metals) | Meltio M600 |
| Enterprise 3D printer of the 12 months (polymers) | EOS FORMIGA P 110 FDR |
| Innovation of the 12 months | MIT 3D Printed Glass Bricks |
| Materials Firm of the 12 months | Steel Powder Works |
| Medical Dental or Healthcare Utility | Stryker’s Infinity Complete Ankle System |
| Mobility or Vitality Utility | Basic Motors – Cadillac Celestiq EV |
| Software program software or firm of the 12 months | Orca Slicer |
| Begin-up of the 12 months | Hyphen Improvements |
| Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing | 6K Additive |
| Worth-added Reseller of the 12 months | MatterHackers |
Observe the hyperlink for a full listing and outline of all 2024 3D Printing Business Awards nominees.
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