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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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2021 3D Printing Industry Awards winners announced
We are proud to announce the 2021 winners of the 3D Printing Industry Awards…
The 3D Printing Industry Awards returned in full force to highlight and champion the outstanding companies and people in our industry.
As voted for by our readers, the Awards represent the best hardware, software, and materials of the past year, the most innovative applications, and exceptional companies and individuals within additive manufacturing. As ever, the awards were hotly contested, with over 140,000 votes received on the shortlists.
Held completely online this year, over 3,000 people have watched the live stream of the Awards on our YouTube channel.
Read on to find out who won, and for comment from this year’s winners of the 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, and thank you to all those who voted. You can also watch the 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards replay by heading to our YouTube channel – make sure to subscribe.
Innovation of the Year – Shortlist
6K’s UniMelt microwave-based technology
A*STAR SIMTech Laser Aided Additive Manufacturing (LAAM)
AMT’s automated PostPro3D
EOS Laser ProFusion
Mechnano carbon nano-tubes
John Whitehead and Hod Lipson’s inverted multi-material laser sintering
ETH Zurich’s Eggshell 3D printing
Meltio multi-material 3D printing
Azul 3D’s High Area Rapid Printing (HARP)
WINNER: 3D Systems’ Print to Perfusion bioprinting platform
Innovation of the year: 3D Systems’ Print to Perfusion bioprinting platform
Scott Turner, VP Advanced Systems at 3D Systems, said: “I’m so thankful to all of those that voted for this, and Martine Rothblatt [Founder of United Therapeutics] who came together to take on the challenge of 3D printing organs, a daunting task at best, and to let us invent a technology that we feel like we’re on the path today to doing this.
We are so happy to be recognized.”
Aerospace, Automotive, Energy – Shortlist
WINNER: 3D Systems’ RF filter for Airbus aerospace
3t AM & Aston Martin
Porsche with MAHLE and Trumpf
AON3D & Astrobotic’s Peregrine Moon Lander
BAC Mono – Ultimaker
Burloak Technologies & Safran titanium landing gear
Neutron 3D printed launch vehicle by Rocket Lab
CRP Technology & LISA laboratory flight-ready 3U CubeSat
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Marshall Aerospace and Stratasys
Aerospace, Automotive, Energy Award: 3D Systems’ RF filter for Airbus
Mike Shepard, VP Aerospace & Defense Segment at 3D Systems, said: “It was a tremendous collaboration with our team in Leuven, Belgium, with the airbus team and we’re extremely excited about RF passive applications in the future, so thank you very much.”
3D Systems’ RF filter for Airbus won the Aerospace, Automotive, Energy Award.
Medical, Dental, or Healthcare Application – Shortlist
Binder jet-based food printing – Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Auckland
CELLINK bioprinting
Dunlee Anti Scatter Grids
ACEO3D facial prosthetics
Marvel Medtech and XJet
MIT Project Manus
Photocentric and NHS
Sintratec and AFSP
Swansea University 3D printed ear cartilage
WINNER: The Satchi-Fainaro Lab, Tel Aviv University, 3DCanPredict ERC project, 3D bioprinted glioblastoma model
Medical, Dental, or Healthcare Application of the Year: The Satchi-Fainaro Lab, Tel Aviv University, 3DCanPredict ERC project, 3D bioprinted glioblastoma model
Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro: “Thanks everyone for voting for us and thank you for the recognition and the great honor of receiving the 3D Printing Industry Award. This is great for myself and for the whole team at my lab at Tel Aviv University at the faculty of Medicine.
We have a great multidisciplinary team led by Lena Neufeld, the PhD student in my lab, who worked together with many other students to develop a glioblastoma model, a very aggressive brain cancer, with perfusive blood vessels to develop a personalized medicine approach to predict which drug will fit which patient. So thank you very much, we really appreciate this.”
Academic, Research Team, or Project of the Year – Shortlist
AMable
Meso-Brain, Aston University
CIM UPC
WINNER: Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Auckland
Digital Reconfigurable Additive Manufacturing facilities for Aerospace, MTC, UK
Prof. Randy Erb and the DAPS Lab at Northeastern University
BARBARA Project
LASIMM
Avio Aero TAL and Apulia Repair Development Center Laboratories
Jennifer Lewis and the Lewis Lab at Harvard University
Academic, Research Team, or Project of the Year Award: Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Auckland
The Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Auckland, won the Academic, Research Team, or Project Award.
Material Company of the Year – Shortlist
3M
WINNER: Fillamentum
BASF Forward AM
Carpenter Technology
CRP Technology
DSM
Evonik
Filamentive
Henkel
Kimya
Material Company of the Year: Fillamentum
Fillamentum won the Material Company of the Year Award.TÜV SÜD Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing – Shortlist
6K Additive
Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA)
Desktop Metal Forust Printer
EOS Responsible Manufacturing Initiative
NonOilen by Fillamentum
WINNER: Fishy Filaments
Liqcreate and Stenden University
Materialise Bluesint PA12
Siemens Energy AM row 1 turbine vanes
TWINE by Hagen Hinderdael, AI Build & Reflow
TÜV SÜD Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing Award: Fishy Filaments
Ian Falconer, CEO and Founder, said: “Massive thank you to all the voters and to all our shareholders, we have about 950 of them dotted around the world in 35 different countries.
We are a child of crowdfunding, so we’re a grassroots organization, super small and driven by people’s genuine wishes rather than anything else.
Fishy Filaments won the TÜV SÜD Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing Award.“We’re really grateful for all the voters and all our shareholders, and also the fisherman for bringing their nets back in and doing their bit, thanks!”
Software Tool or Company of the Year – Shortlist
3YOURMIND
Autodesk Fusion 360
Autodesk Netfabb
Chitubox
Dyndrite
Stratasys GrabCAD Print
Link3D
Markforged Eiger
WINNER: Materialise Magics
Oqton’s ‘Additive’ AI platform
Software Tool or Company of the Year: Materialise Magics
Stefaan Motte, Vice President of Materialise Software, said: “Thanks to all of the voters, thanks for this great recognition. I think I speak for everyone when I say that it has been a really tough period with Covid and not being able to go out.
I must say, in the past few months I am going out again, meeting customers, seeing what is happening with 3D printing on the shop floor, and it is always very rewarding to see Magics really ingrained within the processes and workflows of these champions of additive manufacturing and seeing how Magics enables them to do their magic.
Materialise Magics won the Software Tool or Company of the Year Award.“We continue to innovate, it’s great to see that all of our users are recognizing this thanks to this award, and it really proves that we are building the future of additive manufacturing together on these firm foundations that are magics, so thanks everyone.”
Desktop non-FFF 3D Printer of the Year – Shortlist
AnyCubic Photon
Creality Halot Sky
Elegoo Mars
WINNER: Formlabs Form 3
Original Prusa SL1
Peopoly Phenom
Photocentric Liquid Crystal Precision 1.5
Sinterit Lisa Pro
Sintratec Kit
Sisma Everes
Desktop non-FFF 3D Printer of the Year: Formlabs Form 3
Formlabs won the Desktop non-FFF 3D Printer of the Year Award.Creative Use of 3D Printing Award – Shortlist
WINNER: Adidas Futurecraft 4D (Carbon)
Google & Scan the World
Dr. Mingjing Lin
Avio Aero – Design for Additive Team
BattleBots and Markforged
Camper and BCN3D
Carbon for the Specialized S-Works Power Saddle with Mirror Technology
University of Tübingen & Graz University of Technology elephant trunk robot
TRAFFIC
Lidewij van Twillert
Creative Use of 3D Printing Award: Adidas Futurecraft 4D (Carbon)
Erika Berg, Head of Application Development at Carbon, said: “I’m honored to be representing and thrilled to accept this award on behalf of our partner adidas for their creative use of Carbon DLS. We believe this to be one of the largest applications of 3D printing and we’re so excited to see the different ways that adidas has harnessed Carbon’s 3D technologies to develop better products in less time. We’re thrilled to be accepting this award so thank you very much for the recognition.
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Start-up of the Year Award – Shortlist
Print Parts
Mechnano
Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC)
9T Labs
Triditive
Relativity Space
WINNER: Slice Engineering
ICON
nFrontier
VoxelDance
Start-up of the Year Award: Slice Engineering
The Start-up of the Year Award was presented by Philip Schultheiss, Senior Associate at AM Ventures, which has been investing in early-stage companies for over six years, having encountered more than 2,000 start-ups in this time within the printing sector.
“Some of these have already grown into established players today, so we think this shows the great dynamic of our industry and the general drive in it,” he said. “We are convinced that start-ups play an important role in pushing the innovation and the market growth either with faster hardware and new materials, more intelligent software or by leveraging the advantages of AM for all kinds of new products.
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Daniel Barousse, CEO and Co-founder of this year’s Start-up of the Year Award, Slice Engineering, said: “This is fantastic, we’re very thrilled to be accepting this award. My Co-founder and I started this in a garage and so it’s very cool to now be on this global stage and be making an impact. We’re really excited about that, so thank you to 3DPI and the whole team there, and also to all the people that voted, thank you to the whole community, we’re very appreciative.”
Slice Engineering won the Start-up of the Year Award.Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Metals) – Shortlist
AddUp – FlexCare System
Desktop Metal Studio System
WINNER: EOS M290
GE Additive X Line
GEFERTEC Arc Series
Markforged Metal X System
Xerox ElemX
Velo3D Sapphire System
Sciaky EBAM
SLM Solutions NXG X11 600
Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Metals): EOS M290
EOS said: “We’re very honored that the M290 has been nominated and selected for this award by our users and our customers.
We released the M290 in 2014 and have since installed over 1,000 M290s worldwide, making it the most popular metal AM system to date. We’re obviously very proud that our customers continue to recognize this machine as their go-to for mid-frame systems and that it has become the benchmark for quality in the additive manufacturing industry.
The EOS M290 won the Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Metals) Award.“One of our customers has described the M290 quite perfectly as being ‘boringly reliable’ so we thank you so much for your continued trust in our system and we look forward to continuing to provide our customers with the right tool for their production.”
Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Polymers) – Shortlist
BCN3D Epsilon
WINNER: Carbon L1
Desktop Metal Fiber
EOS Formiga P110 Velocis
EOS P 500
Stratasys J850
HP 580 MJF Color
HP MJF 5200
Makerbot METHOD X
Markforged X7
Enterprise 3D Printer of the Year (Polymers): Carbon L1
A Carbon spokesperson said: “I really appreciate accepting this award on behalf of Carbon. I want to thank the 3D Printing Industry Awards not only for this entire process but for managing this virtual event, it can’t be easy but I really appreciate the efforts especially during the pandemic. I also want to thank all of the voters out there for this recognition.
“The L1 printer was originally developed in 2018 and used specifically for production scale elastomers. The award my colleague Erika accepted on behalf of our partner adidas [for the Futurecraft 4D] all of those midsole are printed on the L1. We went on to print our helmets, saddles and other elastomeric end-use products on the L1. More recently its been used for clear aligner thermoforming and that’s been fabulous, but most exciting in the past year we released the L1 for general availability for customers to do work on it, and it’s really amazing to see the L1 in the hands of creators everywhere, and it’s so exciting to see what our customers are using that platform for.”
3D Printing for a Better World Award – Shortlist
3D Life Prints
3DP4ME: 3D printing of hearing aids
Carbon and Resolution Medical
Advanced Manufacturing Crisis Production Response (AMCPR)
e-Nable
WINNER: EOS initiative 3D Printing Against Corona
GE9X engine turbine blades at Avio Aeros Cameri
Blue Tap’s water purification technology
Swiss MAM
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and the University of Texas at El Paso’s artificial mini hearts
3D Printing for a Better World Award: EOS initiative 3D Printing Against Corona
Upon receiving the award, an EOS spokesperson said: “The 3D Against Corona platform was created in the shortest time to link people at any place together. Immediately it was fed with valuable information for available AM capacities and professional contacts to bring people together and to search demands and volumes to meet these upcoming needs.”
Outstanding Contribution to 3D Printing Award: Ralph Resnick
The Outstanding Contribution to 3D Printing Award is distinguished from the other categories as it is chosen by the 3D Printing Industry team, in consultation with our network. Previous winners include Founder of EOS Dr Hans Langer, Dr Adrian Bowyer, originator of the RepRap movement, and Fried Vancraen, founder and CEO of Materialise.
This year’s winner of the Outstanding Contribution to 3D Printing Award is Ralph Resnick, Founder of the US’ national 3D printing accelerator America Makes. Read more about Resnick’s time in the additive manufacturing sector here.
Upon winning the award, Resnick said: “It has been an outstanding career, and it has been the result of all the relationships that I have built up – all the people, the partners, the associates – that have really come together and are working to advance our industry and help out global manufacturing.
I want to thank 3D Printing Industry for continuing this fantastic effort of recognizing key people and key organizations in our community and I congratulate everyone that is winning the awards and those that have been nominated.
Ralph Resnick won the Outstanding Contribution to 3D Printing Award.“I want to thank you [Michael Petch – 3DPI’s Editor in Chief] for continuing to be a troubadour for additive manufacturing with the excellent publications that you put out and the events that you help organize and sponsor. Again, thank you to all for this recognition, it is very humbling and I will treasure it.”
Value-added Reseller of the Year Award – Shortlist
3D CRIAR
3DChimera
3DGBIRE
3DJake
3DZ
Tritech
VisionMiner
Additive X
WINNER: MatterHackers
iGo3D
Value-added Reseller of the Year Award: MatterHackers
Mara Hitner, VP Strategic Partnerships at MatterHackers, said: “Thank you so much 3D Printing Industry, thank you to everybody that voted.
It is the privilege of our lives at MatterHackers to serve this community, any time you need 3D printers and materials we are here for you, and we so appreciate that you appreciate that. I have to give a special shoutout to anybody out there that participated in our Maker Response Hub PPE efforts, the 15,000 3D printers that I know all of you were running at that time making a difference, thank you for contributing to that effort.
MatterHackers won the Value-added Reseller of the Year Award.“MatterHackers hopes to be here for you for many years to come – our educators, our government, our military customers, our Etsy shops, our major corporations, our small businesses, we love being here for you with content, machines and materials, and continuing to follow the industry and be a provider for whatever you need.”
3D Scanning or Metrology Company of the Year – Shortlist
Artec 3D
Calibry – Thor3D
Creaform
FARO
GOM
Hexagon
Peel3D
WINNER: Scan The World MyMiniFactory (STW Photogrammetry)
Nikon Metrology
Shining 3D
3D Scanning or Metrology Company of the Year: Scan The World and Google Arts & Culture
Jon Beck, Founder of Scan The World, said: “Thank you to everyone for nominating us, Scan The World really stands for its work with the community, making art accessible to everyone around the world, so it’s a testament that it’s coming back to us. So, big thank you to everybody, and it is lovely working with all the other scanning manufacturers who are out there nominated and congratulations to everyone else who was nominated and awarded.”
Company of the Year (Enterprise) – Shortlist
3D Systems
AddUp
WINNER: Autodesk
Carbon
Desktop Metal
EOS
GE Additive
HP
Markforged
Materialise
Company of the Year (Enterprise): Autodesk
Paul Sohi of Autodesk said: “It’s always a joy to be here with 3D Printing Industry and working with you all. Thank you to everyone who voted for us, it means the world to us. We are constantly working on making even better workflows in additive, and it is always a pleasant surprise and a joy to win an award like this, so thank you again everyone.”
Autodesk won the Company of the Year (Enterprise) Award.Company of the Year (Personal) – Shortlist
3DGBIRE
3DGence
WINNER: Prusa Research
BCN3D Technologies
Dyze Design
E3D Online
Formlabs
Lulzbot
Lumi Industries
Slice Engineering
Company of the Year (Personal): Prusa Research
Josef Prusa, CEO & Founder, said: “I would like to thank our wonderful community for bringing us here.
It always feels like we are just at the start of what we can achieve, so it is wonderful and I am speechless.”
Desktop FFF 3D Printer of the Year – Shortlist
Anycubic Vyper
Artillery Sidewinder
Creality CP-01
Creality Ender 3 Pro
LulzBot Taz SideKick 747
Flashforge Adventurer 4
Trilab DeltiQ 2
WINNER: ORIGINAL PRUSA i3 MK3S
E3D Toolchanger
Snapmaker 2.0
Desktop FFF 3D Printer of the Year: ORIGINAL PRUSA I3 MK3S
Prusa said: “So the Mark 3S Plus is on a roll and is proving to be unstoppable, because what we hear from our customers is that they have been using it for years and they still love it and are buying more and more. We have them in automotive because you can get 40 printers for the price of one of the bigger ones, and we have printed quarter of a million fascias just in our company using them.
“I’m very grateful that the Mark 3 is doing so well and I can’t wait for what the future will bring soon.
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Community Advocate of the Year Award – Shortlist
Eurico Assunção, IAMQS Coordinator
Gil Lavi, 3D Alliances
Mara Hitner, VP of Strategic Partnerships, MatterHackers
Matthew Griffin, Director of Community Development, Ultimaker
WINNER: Integza, YouTuber
Olaf Diegel, Professor of Additive Manufacturing, Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Auckland
Peter Rogers, Autodesk
Prof Ho Chaw Sing, NAMIC Singapore
Stephan Henrich, Designer & Lecturer Robotic Design and Architecture
Uncle Jessy, YouTuber
Community Advocate of the Year Award: Integza
Integza said: “There’s a lot of companies here that have motivated me to get into 3D printing for a long time, for example, I have been using Autodesk Fusion 360 for a long time. I would also like to thank Clayton From Uncle Jessy, I’ve been using your PLA profile in Simplify 3D for years and it works perfectly.
I would like the thank 3DPI [readers] for nominating me for this award, and most of all I would like to thank all my subscribers for the support and for voting for me, because without them this would never be possible.”
A replay of the live stream of the 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards is available to watch on our YouTube channel, and has already received more than 3,000 views. All of the winners will receive their trophy in due course, designed by James Novak, winner of the 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards Trophy Design Competition.
Congratulations once again to all of the winners and nominees, we look forward to welcoming you all in person to next year’s event.
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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.
For inspiration, we invite you to learn about interesting projects involving 3D printing from global brands.
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PICASO Designer X PRO 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 🤗
If you ever printed awards, tell us what requirements you place on the model?
Photo: Pavel Bednyakov
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