A Letter from Our New CEO, Marleen Vogelaar

December 2, 2024

Shapeways & Thangs Marketplace for 3D Creators

December 2, 2024

How Vapor Smoothing Unlocks Liquid-Tight 3D Printed Parts

July 9, 2026

Bridge Manufacturing Explained: How smart companies scale products without betting everything upfront

July 7, 2026

Aluminium vs. Plastic in 3D Printing: What’s Right for Your Project?

July 1, 2026

Why Medical Device Development Requires More Than a Single Manufacturing Process

June 24, 2026

Personalized Healthcare with Digital Manufacturing: From Orthoses to Surgical Tools and Anatomical Models

June 23, 2026

How Digital Manufacturing Is Accelerating Medical Innovation

June 18, 2026

Scaling Your Production: Shapeways Now Offers Injection Molding

June 11, 2026

The Next Generation of Drone Hardware: What’s Changing in 2026

June 9, 2026

Technical Design Services for Additive Manufacturing

June 4, 2026

Additive Manufacturing Meets Defense Quality

June 2, 2026

When to Trade Mass for Muscle: Aluminium vs 17-4 PH Stainless Steel

May 28, 2026

The Material Advantage: Why What You Print With Matters More Than How You Print It

May 26, 2026

The Future of Defense Manufacturing: From Static Hardware to Continuous Capability

May 19, 2026

Additive Manufacturing in the Medical Industry

May 13, 2026

Designing Complex UAV Components (vs. Lightweight): Navigating Trade-offs in Advanced Drone Engineering

May 7, 2026

Design Guidelines for CNC Machining: How to Optimize Your Parts for Precision and Efficiency

April 28, 2026

From 3D Printing to Production: Why Post-Processing and Value-Added Services Matter in Additive Manufacturing

April 21, 2026

UAV Rapid Prototyping: Accelerating Drone Innovation

April 14, 2026

PA12 vs Aluminium: Rethinking Material Choices in Modern Engineering

April 8, 2026

Lightweight Structures in UAV Design: Improving Performance Through Smart Engineering

April 1, 2026

Shapeways Offers CNC Machining: Expanding Advanced Manufacturing Capabilities

April 1, 2026

Why Mass Customization is Becoming a Business Imperative

March 26, 2026

Material Spotlight series #4: Stainless Steel

March 24, 2026

Why Defense Supply Chains Are Failing and What It Means for the Future of Manufacturing

March 19, 2026

A Milestone in Sustainable Manufacturing: Shapeways Achieves ISO 14001

March 12, 2026

Additive Manufacturing for Defense: Accelerating Drone and Aerospace Innovation

March 10, 2026

Women in AM: Leadership, Innovation, and Growth

March 5, 2026

February Recap: Events, Material Innovation & What’s Next in Additive Manufacturing

March 5, 2026

Material Spotlight Series #3: Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE)

March 3, 2026

Material Spotlight Series #2: Nylon 11 (PA11) Properties & Uses

February 26, 2026

Why Drone Innovation Depends on Smarter Manufacturing

February 24, 2026

Designing Supply Chains for Manufacturing Resilience

February 19, 2026

Material Spotlight Series #1: Unlocking the Power of Nylon PA12

February 10, 2026

Rebuilding Manufacturing: A Founder’s Lesson in Sustainable Growth

February 5, 2026

Why Materials Strategy Increasingly Shapes Manufacturing Advantage

January 27, 2026

Democratization 2.0: How additive manufacturing is part of the next phase

November 14, 2025

What we’ve learned about next generation hardware manufacturing

November 5, 2025

The proof of additive manufacturing is in the production

October 29, 2025

How innovation in AM materials is powering next generation hardware

October 16, 2025

From 3D printing pioneer to enabling next generation hardware

October 13, 2025

Past Becomes Future as Shapeways Signs Lease for New European Facility in Eindhoven’s Historic TX Building

June 4, 2025

Antoinette De Gee — Building Culture, One Conversation at a Time

June 4, 2025

Hans Lambermont — bringing resilience to constant change

May 20, 2025

Thangs Self-Service Print on Demand is Live — Powered by Shapeways

May 6, 2025

Jeané Bresler — Customer service in alignment with production

May 6, 2025

Need an Alternative for Critical Parts or Production Capacity? Shapeways Can Help — Fast

May 2, 2025

Tistou Geenen — Continuous Improvement is a Team Game

April 22, 2025

Preparing for a new home for our Shapeways Netherlands factory

April 3, 2025

Capacity Up, Prices Down - Second AMT SF100 Vapor Smoothing Machine Meets Growing Demand

March 14, 2025

Shapeways Brings Full-Color MJF Back to Self-Serve 3D Printing

March 14, 2025

Cast Metals Back On Shapeways Self Serve

February 26, 2025

Optimized Pricing for MJF and SLS

February 26, 2025

Shapeways launches Fused Deposit Modelling (FDM)

February 26, 2025

Bringing Shapeways home, and welcoming Thangs — Marleen Vogelaar and Jules Witte explain more about how and why

January 24, 2025

Welcome Thangs to the Shapeways Family!

December 18, 2024