3D Printers

Final votes for the 3D Printing Industry Awards

It’s your last chance to vote in the 3D Printing Industry Awards.

So far we’ve had over 10,000 individuals vote across the 20 categories.

In December, we asked readers to nominate the most exciting, innovative and important enterprises and individuals across the 3D Printing, 3D design and 3D scanning world. From those 800 nominations we drew up the shortlists.

America Makes Founding Director and NCDMM President & Executive Director Ralph Resnick. Photo by Michael Petch.
America Makes Founding Director and NCDMM President & Executive Director Ralph Resnick. Photo by Michael Petch.

When voting closes at 8:00 PM EST today, we will count final votes. We have been amazed at the response, the total votes across all categories have reached almost 200,000 and the hashtag #3DPIAwards seen almost 3 million times, so far.

Desktop Metal CTO Jonah Myerberg with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Desktop Metal CTO Jonah Myerberg with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.

The 3D Printing Industry Awards are voted on by our readers, and the data provides a fascinating insight into the industry. We’ll bring you a further report on this aspect soon.

Matt Stultz of Make Magazine with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Matt Stultz of Make Magazine with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.

You can make your vote in the awards here.

3D Printing Industry Awards profiles

We’ve also written profiles of some of the shortlists for the 3D Printing Industry Awards. Read more about the shortlists for best enterprise 3D printer, best personal 3D printer manufacturer, 3D printing software of the year, enterprise additive manufacturing OEM of the year, best 3D scanner of the year, best 3D printing startup, the most popular wildcard nominations, the 3D Printing Industry Awards Personal 3D printer of the year (FFF/FDM) or the 3D printing innovation of the year.

Mike Cloran from GE Additive with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Mike Cloran from GE Additive with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Jim Ruder of 3D Systems with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Jim Ruder of 3D Systems with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.

The winners will be announced at our gala dinner in London this coming Saturday.

Representatives from the leading companies in the 3D Printing Industry will gather to find out who will be taking home the bronze trophies, 3D printed by our materials sponsor The Virtual Foundry.

[L-R] 3D design, 3D print in PLA, and 3D print in bronze Filamet of the 3D Printing Industry Awards trophy.
[L-R] 3D design, 3D print in PLA, and 3D print in bronze Filamet of the 3D Printing Industry Awards trophy.
Outstanding Contribution to 3D Printing

We have already announced one winner. Dr. Adrian Bowyer will receive the award for Outstanding Contribution to 3D printing.

It is arguable that without Dr. Bowyer and the RepRap project, the Industry would be very different. The RepRap project has accelerated the pace of innovation and brought a much wider group into the 3D printing world. We are honoured to welcome Dr. Bowyer to the 3D Printing Industry Awards.

If you’d like to join us at the event, there are a very limited number of tickets available. Please contact us for more details.

Faro 3D scanning the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Faro 3D scanning the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Kristen Eisiminger from EOS with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Kristen Eisiminger from EOS with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch.
Jim Martin from Sesame Street and Renishaw with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch
Jim Martin from Sesame Street and Renishaw with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch
Blake Teipel from Essentium Materials LLC. Photo by Michael Petch.
Blake Teipel from Essentium Materials LLC. Photo by Michael Petch.
AON3D with the prototype 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch
AON3D with the prototype 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch

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Featured image shows Jim Martin from Sesame Street and Renishaw with the 3D Printing Industry Award. Photo by Michael Petch