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2022 3D Printing Industry Awards Nominations Open

The 3D Printing Industry Awards are back.

Our annual celebration of everything related to the 3D printing industry is a unique event. The awards are open to any individual, enterprise or company active in the industry.

Winners are selected by the most informed people in our industry, you the reader.

This is a two-stage process. It is quite straightforward, stage one takes place during October.

Anyone can nominate a company, enterprise or individual in relevant categories. Those with the most nominations will be entered onto the shortlists, these shortlists then go to a public vote.

Stage two will run through November and early December. The winners will be announced live at the 3D Printing Industry Awards ceremony on Tuesday 13th December 2022. To make sure you don’t miss your invitation to attend, subscribe to our newsletter.

Today we open stage one: Nominations.

Instructions on how to nominate follow.

There are 20 categories, a description, and details of past winners is shown on the form below. If you want to nominate in a category, type in the details. If you have no nomination for that category, leave it blank and proceed.

The full list of categories for the 2022 3D Printing Industry Awards is also reproduced at the end of this article.

Enter your answers on the form below.

3D Printing Industry Awards 2022 timeline

Nominations open: Monday 3rd October 2022.

Deadline for nominations: 31st October 2022.

Award ceremony: Tuesday 13th December 2022.

Category details and past winners of the 3D Printing Industry Awards

Community Advocate

The Community Advocate of the Year category is made for people who demonstrate a genuine commitment to helping others access 3D printing and additive manufacturing technologies. This can be in a business sense, through supporting the goals of companies in this field, or from an educational standpoint – introducing 3D printers in schools or helping to disseminate knowledge of the technology through blog posts, YouTube or other video and/or other media.

Previous winners:

2021 Integza, YouTuber

2019 Lauralyn McDaniel, Industry Events Manager, ASME

2018 Nora Toure, founder of Women in 3D Printing

2017 Phil Hall, a teacher from Windsor Boys School in the UK

Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing

This category recognizes additive manufacturing applications or processes that contribute to sustainability goals.

A company, product, service, or application nominated for the Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing Award is striving to facilitate the preservation of resources and acting with due concern for the environment.

Previous winner:

2021: Fishy Filaments

Software Tool

Slicers, CAD/CAM/CAE tools, manufacturing execution systems, FEA analysis, simulation programs, 3D printer operation software – this award is for the digital tools behind the scenes that make 3D printing possible.

Previous winners:

2021 Materialise Magics

2019 Ultimaker Cura

2018 Autodesk Netfabb

2017 Autodesk Fusion 360

Start-up of the Year

To be eligible for our Start-up of the Year award, companies must have been operating within the 3D printing industry for no more than 5 years and remain unlisted on the stock exchange.

Previous winners:

2021 Slice Engineering

2019 Aerosint

2018 Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) Ltd.

2017 Desktop Metal

Desktop non-FFF 3D Printer of the Year

Any 3D printer that uses technology other than FFF is compact in size and suitable for use on a desktop, worktop or other surface is eligible for this category.

Previous winners:

2021 Formlabs Form 3

2019 Photocentric Liquid Crystal Precision 1.5

2018 Formlabs Form 2

2017 DWS XFAB

Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Polymers)

This category is for polymer additive manufacturing systems used in industrial environments, i.e. a factory floor or engineering department. This category is open to any type of polymer technology, SLS, FFF/FDM, SLA, MJF, including high temperature and composite fiber systems.

Previous winners:

2021 Carbon L1

2019 Stratasys J750

2018 Markforged Mark Two

2017 3D Systems ProJet MJP 2500 & Markforged Mark Two (In the first year this category was split into separate awards for Enterprise FFF and Enterprise Other)

Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Metals)

Any additive manufacturing systems that can be used for the production of metal parts is eligible for this award. This includes all powder bed fusion (PBF), direct energy deposition (DED), and cold spray systems including those employing direct metal laser melting (DMLS), binder jet, FFF, electron beam melting (EBM), electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM), wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) or others.

Previous winners:

2021 EOS M290

2019 Desktop Metal Studio System

2018 Desktop Metal Studio System

Company of the Year (Personal)

An award for the companies who manufacture 3D printers and related equipment, for example, hotends, for use in desktop systems.

Manufacturers producing 3D printing equipment typically for use within enterprises should enter under Company of the Year (Enterprise).

Previous winners:

2021 Prusa Research

2019 E3D Online

2018 E3D Online

2017 Ultimaker

Company of the Year (Enterprise)

An award for the manufacturers of additive manufacturing systems or related tools that can be used within a professional environment, for example, in a factory or engineering workshop.

Previous winners:

2021 Autodesk

2019 GE Additive

2018 GE Additive

2017 XI’AN Bright Laser Technologies

3D Printing for a Better World

Launched for the first time in 2019, this award was made to highlight and celebrate any 3D printing applications that seek to improve the lives of others. This could be through a wide range of applications, including healthcare, construction, or other relevant uses of technology.

Previous winner:

2021 EOS initiative 3D Printing Against Corona

2019 3D Life Prints’ anatomical models for patient care

Material Company of the Year

A broad category open to all filament, resin, metal powder, polymer powder, or bio-printing material manufacturers in 3D printing or additive manufacturing.

Previous winners:

2021 Fillamentum

2019 CRP Technology

2018 BASF

2017 Polymaker

Academic/Research Team

The future of additive manufacturing and 3D printing is in the hands of university and private research teams around the world. This award is granted to those at the leading edge of 3D printing. Research projects, teams, and individuals considered for this award are not required to be at completion, but there must be evidence of research activity.

Previous winners:

2021 Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Auckland

2019 Digital Reconfigurable Additive Manufacturing facilities for Aerospace (DRAMA) team from the MTC, UK

2018 Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CfAM) at Nottingham University

2017 Jennifer Lewis and the Lewis Lab at Harvard University

Medical, Dental, or Healthcare Application

Applications can be made in metal or polymer, using any 3D printing or additive manufacturing technology. Any entries must be specific to medical, dental, or healthcare markets, but do not have to be in commercial production.

Previous winners:

2021 The Satchi-Fainaro Lab, Tel Aviv University, 3DCanPredict ERC project, 3D bioprinted glioblastoma model

2019 BCN3D Technologies and the University of Girona for their work in breast cancer research

2018 Figure 4 and NextDent, 3D Systems

Aerospace, Automotive, or Energy Application

Applications can be made in metal or polymer, using any 3D printing or additive manufacturing technology. Any entries must be specific to aerospace, automotive markets, or energy sector (for example oil & gas) but do not have to be in commercial production.

Previous winners:

2021 3D Systems’ RF Filter for Airbus

2019 Cranfield University and WAAM3D’s 2.5m x 1.5 m rear frame for the BAE Systems Eurofighter Typhoon

2018 Volkswagen Autoeuropa, Ultimaker, 3D printed tooling

Creative Use of 3D Printing

3D printing is an invaluable tool for many designers and artists with innovative concepts. This award celebrates the creative flair of 3D printing projects conducted by designers, companies, teams, and individuals with designs that could not be made using any other manufacturing technology.

Previous winners:

2021 Adidas & Carbon Futurecraft 4D

2019 NERA E-Motorcycle made by BigRep’s NOWLab

2018 Black Panther Brisk Promotion, PepsiCo & Protolabs

Innovation of the Year

Independent of any specific machine, Innovation of the Year is for technologies that bring alternative modes of 3D printing to the sector. Innovations considered for this category can be the product of academic research and do not have to be marketed by a company.

Previous winners:

2021 3D Systems’ Print to Perfusion bioprinting platform

2019 Digital Metal, high-precision 3D metal printing

2018 High Laydown Technology for Material Jetting, Xaar

2017 HP Multi Jet Fusion

3D Scanning or Metrology Company

This category is made to award a 3D scanning or metrology company that makes a marked contribution to the use of 3D printing. Eligible companies are manufacturers of 3D scanning equipment that can be used in reverse engineering, cultural heritage, and/or non destructive testing.

Previous winners:

2021 Scan The World & Google Arts and Culture

2019 Artec 3D

2017 FARO

Value-added Reseller of the Year

For all 3D printer, parts and consumables resellers or distributors that go the extra mile in providing service to their customers. Examples of added value include the conduct of 3D printer training, full-service installation and responsive customer support.

Previous winners:

2021 MatterHackers

2019 3DGBIRE

Desktop FFF 3D Printer of the Year

Any 3D printer nominated for this award should use Filament Fabrication (FFF) technology and be compact in size, suitable for use on a desktop, worktop or other surface. Compact FFF machines operating at high temperatures and compatible with more advanced materials are better suited to the Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Polymers) category rather than the desktop category.

Previous winners:

2021 Prusa i3 MK3S Plus

2019 Prusa i3 MK3

2018 Prusa i3 MK3

2017 Zortrax M200

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3D printing in Russia is a new, not yet boring, actively popularized direction.
This means that this is an opportunity to loudly and effectively draw attention to yourself and bring bold creative ideas to life.
We have several successfully completed projects using 3D printing in marketing, fashion, and HR.

We have repeatedly engaged in the development of design, creation of 3D models and printing of awards for various awards.

For example, one day the organizer of the annual award for HR professionals - Trainings 2014 contacted us and asked come up with an award that changes the usual format of award diplomas for something more modern and memorable.

When we took on this order, all we had at our disposal was the website of the event, from which we together with one of our 3D designers came up with a concept and made a 3D model of the figurine. Moreover, the winner in each of the six nominations were not known in advance, so we decided to model the figurines in such a way that we could paste the name laureate immediately before the presentation.

Thus, after agreeing the 3D model with the customer, we printed from full color plaster six awards and about 20 plaster plaques with the names of the finalists. The nameplates of the winners were glued directly backstage after the announcement of the winners. Both organizers and guests of the event were satisfied with the new, interesting format awards.

Another example from our award 3D printing practice is design development, 3D model making and 3D printing of polyamide figurines for the annual award in the fashion industry PROfashion Awards 2014.

As in the case above, here the initial information for further work was only information about the event and the wishes of the customer. Everything else is the professionalism of our 3D designer and the capabilities of an industrial 3D printer.

We also had the opportunity to work with the organizer of the largest Russian festival of hip-hop music Rap Music Vlad Valov, who asked us to print awards for the festival.

We have modeled and printed on 3D printers a composite award from two materials - polyamide and multicolor plaster. At the same time, after printing, the upper plastic part of the award was painted gold and glued to the plaster base.

In addition, we took part in the implementation of the adidas advertising campaign organized as part of the Festival. street culture FACES&LACES 2014.

The campaign included a competition that gave away new models of sneakers, as well as the opportunity to get your own mini-copy printed on a 3D printer.

The festival was held in the summer in Gorky Park, where the adidas booth where we scanned over 30 people over the weekend. Next, we finalized the resulting 3D models, “shoeing” scanned people in adidas sneakers, after which they printed miniature figures of people on a plaster 3D printer.

Within the scope of this of the event, we scanned and printed mini-copies of Yura Makarychev, the soloist of the famous indie band ON-THE-GO and a journalist, singer, producer and presenter Snezhina Kulova.

And this is not all our capabilities - we specialize in the development of 3D models and 3D printing corporate gifts, branded souvenirs, logos and other branding.

For example, by order of Intel, we designed and printed New Year's balls - gifts for the company's customers.

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We also modeled and printed a master model for casting a buckle according to sketches by designer Olga Kolesman. Now you can buy buckles cast from metal according to master models printed on a 3D printer in the designer clothes studio KOLESMAN studio.

A for the bottle design factory we made a 3D model and printed it from plaster attributes for corporate photography - buckles with Flacon logo.

In addition, we have repeatedly printed landscape and architectural models on 3D printers, created 3D models, printed prototypes and finished products for various collections of Russian designers, artists, jewelers, made prototypes parts and mechanisms for large industrial organizations, printed visual materials and samples for exhibitions and presentations.

If you want to go beyond standard solutions and implement a bright and memorable project, contact us and we will gladly detail we will tell you about all the possibilities of 3D printing in business.

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In February, the organizers of the Zelenograd.ru People's Prize contest contacted us, PICASO 3D, to make awards for the winners. Of course, we could not but respond to the request of Zelenograd residents (after all, we live and work in this city).

The award ceremony took place a few days ago, and now we are ready to share with you the history of the awards.

Based on the design of the award, our colleague developed a 3D model of the award - the main requirement is "beautiful". And for a printer, it is important that it is printed quickly and easily - without supports, the sizes of letters and lines are adapted for printing 😉

The model turned out to be a team - the award itself and a small stand.

Printed on Designer X PRO in two nozzles - FormaX (to get a beautiful texture) + ABS (lemon color is similar to the brand colors of the award).

Printing time - 4 hours reward (one per table) and another 2.5 hours coasters (printed 4 pcs.). A total of 14 kits were made (12 for awards and a couple more "just in case)".

After summing up the results of the awards, plates with the name of the company and the name of the winner were pasted on the awards 🤗

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