## 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 ## 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 ## 3D Printed Drones for Industrial Applications: New Perspective for Higher Productivity January 19, 2022 Drones also offer vast new perspectives on the Earth’s terrain, opening up new ways to handle projects and missions globally, as well as within busy cityscapes and more provincial areas. ## Increasing Productivity: Additive Manufacturing with EOS, Part Two January 11, 2022 In a recent webinar co-presented by Shapeways, Dr. Cary Baur, Manager of Polymer Material R&D, explained how the EOS Additive Minds team was formed to address the needs of industrial customers—and further, to understand what the real pull is for additive manufacturing in applications they use now and may look to in the future. ## Excellence for Automotive: 3D Printing Materials from BASF January 6, 2022 In partnering with BASF AM Forward, Shapeways has been able to provide access to a range of superior 3D printing materials for rigorous customer requirements in automotive applications, and more. ## Quantum Systems: 3D Printing Drones to Endure the Force of Flight January 4, 2022 “Anyone who works in the drone business knows it’s all about the passion.” ## Increasing Your Production Power: Additive Manufacturing with EOS, Part 1 December 30, 2021 SLS 3D printing technology opens the door to expanding productivity and customization. In the medical space, products and services can be completely tailored, offering true patient-specific treatment.