The manufacturing unit of Shapeways within the Netherlands has been situated within the heart of Eindhoven on the canal for over a decade. It’s the place we scaled up our world SLS, MJF, and MJP manufacturing capabilities, licensed it, and launched first article inspection and worth added companies like spray portray and warmth inserts to raised serve our clients.
The centric location in Eindhoven is a unbelievable location and expensive to our hearts with many nice recollections and learnings. Nonetheless, with the present progress fee of the corporate and the deliberate growth of our price added companies, the placement will quickly grow to be too small to serve our world industrial and medical clientele.
Subsequently in late 2026 we’ll relocate to a brand new web site at Strijp T, a former Philips Electronics constructing that’s within the midst of being renovated. There’s some magnificence to Shapeways returning to its Philips roots. We began our firm throughout the Philips Way of life Incubator all these years in the past and now we shall be shifting to a historic Philips industrial constructing that shall be revitalized for the present period. Renovation will embody saving as most of the architectural components of the constructing whereas offering a totally modernized office with all consolation and sustainability facilities one can count on from a brand new constructing.
Our new dwelling may have the house and energy we have to develop and supply the capability to function our equipment and develop the variety of applied sciences and extra companies. It can enable us to take and implement the operational learnings from our present Manufacturing unit into improved set-up and lay-out, growing the effectivity of our processes. On high of that, the roof or our manufacturing unit shall be flooded by pure daylight from the north-facing panes of the sawtooth roof. Not solely will this be a significant high quality of life enchancment for our crew members, however it would additionally enable loads of gentle with out growing the cooling necessities in summer season. Furthermore, the south aspect of the roof had photo voltaic panels put in, guaranteeing we will energy our buyer’s orders with sustainable vitality and scale back the quantity of grid vitality we’d like.
Over the subsequent 18 months we’ll proceed to re-shape and develop this new house. The principle building is in place, and we’re within the means of refining the layouts and investments we have to carry our imaginative and prescient to life. We’re wanting to see the way it will all come to fruition, however for now, we discover pleasure in making ready this subsequent step within the journey of Shapeways and look ahead to sharing updates with all of you thru the weblog.