What does the additive manufacturing trade need for Christmas? At Formnext 2023, TCT requested exhibitors and attendees what could be on their Christmas 3D printing wishlist. Responses ranged from 3D printed present concepts, to ambitions for his or her corporations, and cultural modifications for the broader trade.

Listed below are simply a few of the solutions we acquired. Be a part of within the dialog and inform us what could be in your 3D printing Christmas want record.

Monica Smith, Product Line Supervisor, Steel Methods, EOS

“For EOS, it’s the EOS M290-1 that we’re releasing, I would really like that wrapped below my Christmas tree. For the broader trade I’d say extra girls in management positions in 3D printing.”

Norbert Gall, Head of Advertising and PR, Lithoz

“For Christmas, my private wishlist and I feel I can communicate for all my colleagues could be that we are able to disclose any utility that we’re already constructing for a lot of of our clients, to indicate the world how highly effective ceramic 3D printing actually is, and in what number of mass manufacturing, serial manufacturing and large volumes we are literally already in.”

Kartik Rao, Strategic Advertising Director, Additive Industries

“A 3D printed stunt scooter.”

Joel Telling, Host, 3D Printing Nerd

“Oh boy, for 2023, I feel my 3D printing want is for a really profitable public sale for the Sanjay Mortimer Basis. I’m going to be the host of the public sale on the Sanjay Mortimer RepRap Competition in Oxford, and I feel only a particular present to me and to many others could be a profitable public sale elevating quite a lot of funds for the Sanjay Mortimer Basis.”

Frederic Larouche, Basic Supervisor, GE Additive

“I need to have a 3D printer in plastic to show my youngsters the main points of that expertise.”

Bart Van der Schueren, Chief Know-how Officer, Materialise

“What is actually on my want record is that we are able to additional work along with one another. In order that we actually begin seeing one another as companions who collectively will develop this trade. As an alternative of combating one another, and combating does not need to be unfavourable, however that we’re extra involved about the purposes and the usage of our expertise than we’re involved about ourselves.”

David Moodie, Founder and CEO, Foundry Lab

“For us, gross sales, first gross sales, and for the trade, I feel Stratasys simply must kind it out.”

Andrew Sink, Senior Functions Engineer, Carbon

“My Christmas 3D printing wishlist, for certain I would really like extra conventional producers with expertise in foam and injection moulding to have a look at 3D printing as a viable manufacturing scale expertise. I feel it might be nice to be taken critically within the trade that additive is right here, and additive can be utilized for these mass market purposes, and that we’re all type of studying, like we’re all figuring this out and seeing that adoption proceed to rise. That’s what I would like for Christmas.”

Cora Leibig, Founder and CEO, Chromatic 3D Supplies

“I like a superb, vibrant 3D printed Christmas tree decoration.”

Liz Stortstom, 3D Printing Product Supervisor, HP

“Extra variety within the trade. It isn’t simply gender, race, age, but in addition simply backgrounds. As a result of if it will be a viable manufacturing expertise, there’s an entire ecosystem. We want folks in software program, in firmware, in {hardware}, in supplies. We want folks throughout the whole ecosystem who did not come out of 3D printing, however who got here from different areas of producing and different industries to drag of their experience.”

Alain Dupont, Chief Industrial Officer, GE Additive

“I’m an enormous skier, so 3D printed skis.”

Francesco Pantaleone, Govt Vice President of Enterprise Growth, Roboze

“I feel, for 3D printing, I want the entire trade will centered extra on actually answering three easy questions. One is ‘Are you able to make it?’ And might you make it’s not that easy, I imply are you able to make it in accordance with licensed requirements, are you able to make it with the manufacturing particulars that each different manufacturing expertise is utilizing for manufacturing. ‘How a lot does it value?’ And ‘How lengthy does it take?’ That may spark an infinite quantity of quantity that we are able to faucet into, into the manufacturing area. Primary on our wishlist, from a Roboze standpoint, is to enlarge the market dimension the place these purposes, the place this expertise can create worth.”

Fabian Krauss, Head of Polymer Methods, EOS

I want to see that additive can course of, 100% recycled supplies. You see that in fibers, you see that in yarns, and also you see that in injection moulding. That additive is so sturdy that we are able to course of 100% recycled which has a huge effect on value, sustainability for certain, and, breadth of supplies.”