Pete Weijmarshausen cutting the ribbon with Katja Lucas from Dutch Design Week, the Royal Commissioner Wim van de Donk, and the Mayor of Eindhoven, Rob van Gijzel
The future of 3D printing is looking brighter and brighter, as more people design custom that are exactly what they want. As excitement about 3D printing has grown, so has Shapeways and on Monday, October 20 we opened the our new 3D printing factory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. This is our third location in Eindhoven and the largest so far! We’re so excited because we will not only be able to produce 3D printed products more efficiently at this new facility, but it has plenty of room to grow for the future. It’s a milestone in Shapeways history and we’re excited to be growing in the city where we began.
Pete Weijmarshausen welcomes guests and the Shapeways team to the new Shapeways Eindhoven factory
At the opening Shapeways co-founder and CEO Petere Weijmarshausen kicked off the evening and talked about how Shapeways grew from one office with one chair and desk to a company of 150 with factories on both sides of the Atlantic. We were also joined by very special guests Katja Lucas from Dutch Design Week, the Royal Commissioner Wim Van De Donk, and the Mayor of Eindhoven, Rob van Gijzel who spoke about the significance of Shapeways and 3D printing for Dutch design, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
The entry hallway at our new Eindhoven factory
With Dutch Design Week in full swing we were honored that Katja Lucas made time in her busy schedule to talk about how 3D printing and companies like Shapeways are empowering designers to push their imaginations and their designs. The Rob van Gijzel, Mayor of Eindhoven, spoke about the city’s tradition of nurturing technological visionaries and the entrepreurial spirit that Shapeways exemplifies. The Royal Commissioner, Wim van de Donk, said he felt like, “A part of history,” and drew connections to Einstein’s time in Eindhoven and how 3D printing is not only driving our imaginations, but the next industrial revolution.
We also wanted to thank you, our community, for enabling us to bring your designs to life over the past six years. We’re all learning and growing together in this new industrial revolution and are curious to know, what do you think will be the next big thing in 3D printing? What are you looking forward to?
Three cheers for our community and thank you from the Shapeways Eindhoven team!
Want to see more of our Eindhoven factory? Join us on this minute-long, Hyperlapse tour!
Gefeliciteerd – en ik ben trots (en jaloers) op jullie… (grijns).
mvg,
Max
that was painful to watch – I have a motion sickness.
Hi, Rob.
Thanks for your comment – it’s a Hyperlapse video, which is a new app which allows you to make videos at Hyperspeed. It’s aimed to give you a fun taste of the factory, but for more in depth videos from Shapeways check out our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Shapeways
Thanks!
Best,
Eleanor
Ik heb wel hoofdpijn gekregen na het kijken van de snelle jelle filmpje. niet erg professioneel.
Verder succes toegewenst en complimenten voor de reeds geleverde prestaties!
I loved the factory tour and I am always on the look out with whatever you post so I am a fan of yours already. I just wanted to say congratulations and Good Luck for more work and innovations the best is yet to be 2015 is almost here. I loved the energy of the whole team in the group photo that you shared.
Keeping posting ok. Bye.
Regards,
Pauline
Thanks, Pauline!
We are so excited to be growing and we really appreciate our community members like yourself!
Thanks for being part of the 3D printing revolution as well!
Best,
Eleanor
Thanks for posting the tour, the new factory looks great, congrats to Shapeways!
Congratulations on your new facility. As one of your happy designers, I continue to receive new products from Shapeways, and I continue to grow my inventory of products for sale. I have created a small business just with the production of 3D printed products, and I am grateful to Shapeways, and to be a part of this Industrial Revolution.
My request for your next location will be in California, USA. Please make it happen someday soon. And while you are at it, can you shorten the lead time for parts at the same time you are growing?
All the best wishes for the growth of Shapeways and the 3D revolution.
Thanks, Brian!
We’re so excited about this and we’d love to come to sunny California, but who knows what the future will hold!
In any event, we are working hard to reduce lead times as we know this is very important to our community!
Thanks for being part of the next industrial revolution with us!
Best,
Eleanor
Video poor. Like my old home movies, too fast to see anything. I just quit watching and learning. If there is something to be seen, show it.
Hi, Ed.
Thanks for your feedback – the video is a Hyperlapse, which is a new app to enable to make a quick, fun, fast-forward video. We thought it was a great way to give you a taste of the new factory, but we’ll have more in-depth videos of our production process in the work. In the meantime, you can check out our YouTube channel, especially this video for a deeper look at how products are made at Shapeways: http://youtu.be/BTTnaI4EYnY
Best,
Eleanor
Congratulations on your new facility, but your video is horrible. It makes one giddy to watch, and essentially conveys no useful information. I am a happy, satisfied customer, but if I had never dealt with Shapeways, it certainly would not encourage me to do so. I suppose it is meant to convey excitement and hustle, but if so, it fails, and instead appears to be confusion and disorganization. I would suggest that you remove it and replace it with a real tour, with a guide offering explanations of the various steps and equipment giving each of their advantages and recommended uses.
Whatever you decide, I still plan to be a customer, although admittedly a small one.
Regards, and best wishes for success,
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Hi, Henry!
Thanks for your well wishes and for your feedback – the video is a Hyperlapse, which is a fun new app that allows you to make super fast (though not necessarily high quality) videos. It’s to give you a taste of the factory – for a deeper look check out this video: http://youtu.be/BTTnaI4EYnY
We also plan to have more in-depth videos about the production process coming soon!
Best,
Eleanor
Erg funcky, helemaal dizzy. Je ziet geen f#.
Dat is wellicht de bedoeling of niet?
Hi Eleanor,
You responded 2-3 times that the the Hyperactive (my name for it) video is fun.
IMHO, it is anything but fun, and I don’t need to poll the other posters for their opinion.
A successful business listens to their customers.
The jerky, fast panning video, with momentary glimpses of name boards that disappeared so fast i couldn’t read them made me feel literally sick, like being car sick when I was a kid.
Fortunately I have already bought from you so I’m an acolyte – if the video was my first contact, I’d go elsewhere.
Keep up the good work and get rid of that video – it does you no favours.
cheers
Dave
Bad video
Made me dizzy
The spaced looked interesting but it seemed like you did not want your viewers to see very much.
If so, you achieved your goal
PAINFUL,
you need a NEW steady cam operator and director! NOT an ADVERTISEMENT for your facility but a BIG turn off!
I thought this was going to be a nice tour to see! But see what? it was more like a race to the other side of the building. for those who work there this might make since. but for us who are designers and don’t work there would may have taken a slower tour so we can make since of what is what! The one behind the video seem not to be to impressed with the new building. As most viewers said Dizzy. On the move! Sorry to be so negative about the video! I thing this world is and has been in Hyperlapse motion Don’t see the beauty around them. SO! Congratulations on the new opening of the Shapeways building and go luck!
Best,
Walt
Yesyes Eleanor, we have read your response.
It’s a hyper video and so on.
Hopefully you are better at 3D printing..
The movie is horrible.
The video was too fast and blurry. Is this is an ad for your new app, it backfired!
thanks!!
Cool! Congratulations on the new factory! Exciting to be a small part of this forward movement! May creative souls bless the world through this new tech!
Hyper Wiper Viper Fail! I agree with all the other comments that this video sucks…meaning, counterproductive to making people want to use SW. Linking to ‘better’ vids in the comments is totally weak. Try harder to be creative.
Far too fast to even think about watching this crazy video – motion sickness is the result! I would not even think about considering to put such a madness online…but tastes are definitely different throughout the world –
Shapeways is an excellent, innovative, company. But this is a useless, amateuritsic, movie. No effect what so-ever; don’t remember anything of the movie except for the corridors. If the corridors are “the taste” of your factory, fine. But otherwise produce something better. Feel motion-sick.