3DPOD: Insight from 3D Printing Pros

3DPOD 315: Dirk Simon, from BASF to Farsoon to FKM, and now Square New Business

Dirk Simon had already spent years in the chemicals industry before joining and pioneering BASF‘s 3D printing effort. We get to hear how that firm looked at 3D printing a

3DPOD 314: Debinding, Sintering, and Metal Binder Jetting with Stefan Joens, Elnik Systems and DSH Technologies

Stefan Joens of Elnik Systems sells ovens. Their debind and sintering equipment powers a lot of high-volume binder jet and MIM production. We learn about Elnik and its or

3DPOD 313: Patient-Specific 3D Printing with Ruben Wauthle, Amnovis

Ruben Wauthle studied at Leuven University at a very serendipitous time. Through working with pioneering additive professors and surgeons, he entered into a specialty tha

3DPOD 312: RLP’s Gravity-Free Silicone Manufacturing with Schendy Kernizan

Schendy Kernizan worked as a professor and researcher before co-founding RLP (Rapid Liquid Print), a company that extrudes silicone into a hydrogel. RLP allows for pure s

3DPOD 311: Thingiverse and MyMiniFactory, with CEO Romain Kidd

Romain Kidd was MyMiniFactory‘s CEO and helped that company grow in a crowded market of people sitting between “the cloud,” communities, and 3D printing. We talk about ho

3DPOD 310: Metal LPBF Under $10k with Tom Bakker, Metal-Base

Tom Bakker is a talented engineer who has worked in LPBF, custom machine building, and on semiconductor equipment. Now he wants to make LPBF metal printing cheap. With Me

3DPOD 309: 3D Printed Aquarium Pumps and a Lot More with Kristian Cleven

Kris Kleven has spent decades in engineering. First, he did demanding engineering projects for Schlumberger, Emerson, and others in the oil and gas industry. Later, he wo

3DPOD 308: Engineering Design with Matthew Shomper, Not a Robot and F13LD

Matthew Shomper has worked on 3D printed medical devices for many years. There, he specialized in new geometries, cutting-edge designs, designing implants, FEA optimizati

3DPOD 307: Wire Arc AM with Peter Richards, Deep Manufacturing

Peter Richards is the CEO of Deep Manufacturing, a supremely ambitious company deploying DED to build underwater habitats. Additionally, the company makes pressure vessel

3DPOD 306: Super Polymers for 3D Printing with Mike Zimmerman, Z-Polymers

Mike Zimmerman started in research before starting his own startups. Now his firm makes a fiber with some very exciting properties indeed. The material has been turned in

3DPOD 305: Automating AM with Grenzebach’s Oliver Elbert

Oliver Elbert‘s over ten years in additive manufacturing have been spent automating LPBF. For large, high-volume, or critical parts, Grenzebach has provided custom automa

3DPOD 304: Precast Concrete AM with Greg Kerkstra, Mangrove

Greg Kerkstra is part of a family business that leads in the precast concrete industry. They’ve now turned to Progress Group’s large-format binder-jet concrete technology

3DPOD 303: 6K Additive CEO Frank Roberts on Premium and Sustainable Metal AM Powder

6K Additive is roaring ahead with a recycling solution for metals. Their path from scrap to powder is helping the US to be more resilient, produce powder locally and perh

3DPOD 302: Digital Inventory for AM with Mikhail Gladkikh, Würth Additive Group

Mikhail Gladkikh has worked in oil and gas for many years. With this background, we obviously talk about energy market turbulence and the adoption of AM in oil and gas. W

3DPOD 301: Jay Rogers on Haddy’s Robotic 3D Printed Manufacturing, and a Lot More

Jay Rogers was in the Marine Corps, consulting, and sailed around the world. He first came to additive through his company, Local Motors. He talks us through that firm’s

3DPOD 300: Celebrating 300 Episodes with a Look at the Next Year in 3D Printing

In the 300th episode of the 3DPOD, we take a look at what we think will happen over the next 12 months; for instance, what will happen with Bambu’s dominance, what will h

3DPOD 299: 3D Printing in Education with Jesse Roitenberg, Stratasys

Jesse Roitenberg is the Education Director at Stratasys. We go through his 20-year journey in additive, starting in some really pioneering days at Stratasys in sales. Jes

3DPOD 298: Dental 3D Printing with Amir Mansouri, SprintRay

Amir Mansouri started SprintRay to make an accurate Vat Polymerization system. Through conversations with customers, SprintRay became a $100 million revenue dental 3D pri

3DPOD 297: 3D Printed Static Mixer Nozzles with Eric Ronning, Re Mixers

Eric Ronning started ReMixers when he and his team discovered a new way to more efficiently mix fluids, pastes, and other materials. Multiple materials could be more thor

3DPOD 296: 3D Printed Rocket Engines From Industrial to Hobbyist with An Duong, Morethan3D

An Duong, a former Rolls-Royce innovation manager working on 3D printed aeroengines, made an unexpected shift from aerospace to entrepreneurship. The work was challenging