The manufacturing facility of Shapeways within the Netherlands has been positioned 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 providers like spray portray and warmth inserts to raised serve our clients.
The centric location in Eindhoven is a incredible location and pricey to our hearts with many nice recollections and learnings. Nonetheless, with the present development charge of the corporate and the deliberate growth of our price added providers, 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 website 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 Way of life Incubator all these years in the past and now we might be transferring to a historic Philips industrial constructing that might 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 house and energy we have to develop and supply the capability to function our equipment and broaden the variety of applied sciences and extra providers. It’s going to enable us to take and implement the operational learnings from our present Manufacturing unit into improved set-up and lay-out, rising the effectivity of our processes. On high of that, the roof or our manufacturing facility might be flooded by pure daylight from the north-facing panes of the sawtooth roof. Not solely will this be a serious high quality of life enchancment for our staff members, however it can additionally enable loads of gentle with out rising the cooling necessities in summer season. Furthermore, the south facet of the roof had photo voltaic panels put in, making certain we are able to energy our buyer’s orders with sustainable power and scale back the quantity of grid power we want.
Over the subsequent 18 months we’ll proceed to re-shape and develop this new house. The principle development is in place, and we’re within the strategy of refining the layouts and investments we have to convey 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 sit up for sharing updates with all of you thru the weblog.
