# 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