The manufacturing unit of Shapeways within the Netherlands has been positioned within the middle of Eindhoven on the canal for over a decade. It’s the place we scaled up our international SLS, MJF, and MJP manufacturing capabilities, licensed it, and launched first article inspection and worth added providers like spray portray and warmth inserts to higher serve our clients.Â
The centric location in Eindhoven is a unbelievable location and expensive to our hearts with many nice reminiscences and learnings. Nonetheless, with the present development charge of the corporate and the deliberate enlargement of our price added providers, the placement will quickly turn into too small to serve our international 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 inside the Philips Life-style Incubator all these years in the past and now we can be transferring to a historic Philips industrial constructing that can be revitalized for the present period. Renovation will embody saving as most of the architectural components of the constructing whereas offering a completely modernized office with all consolation and sustainability facilities one can count on from a brand new constructing.
Our new house could have the area and energy we have to develop and supply the capability to function our equipment and increase the variety of applied sciences and extra providers. It would enable us to take and implement the operational learnings from our present Manufacturing facility into improved set-up and lay-out, growing the effectivity of our processes. On high of that, the roof or our manufacturing unit can 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 group members, however it should additionally enable loads of gentle with out growing the cooling necessities in summer time. Furthermore, the south aspect of the roof had photo voltaic panels put in, guaranteeing we will energy our buyer’s orders with sustainable power and scale back the quantity of grid power we’d like.
Over the following 18 months we’ll proceed to re-shape and develop this new area. The primary development is in place, and we’re within the means of refining the layouts and investments we have to deliver our imaginative and prescient to life. We’re desirous to see the way it will all come to fruition, however for now, we discover pleasure in getting ready this subsequent step within the journey of Shapeways and stay up for sharing updates with all of you thru the weblog.
