#3DStartup: Fabric8Labs and their metal 3D Printing without Heat, Powder, or a Laser

If you have kept up with the additive manufacturing industry through 2017, you’d know that metal 3D printing is all the rage. With over 20 major companies releasing metal 3D printers and hundreds of millions of dollars being invested, metal 3D printing certainly has a bright future.

This brings us nicely onto the topic of our recent interview with Californian-based startup Fabric8Labs. Fabric8Labs are a metal 3D printing startup with a difference – they don’t require lasers, powders, or even heat. Naturally, we had to find out more. Therefore, we spoke to Fabric8Labs about their technology, aims for the future, and more.

3DN: Tell us about your professional relation with the 3D printing industry and how the idea of Fabric8Labs came up?

Our founding team was working in environments where additive manufacturing in metal could make huge impacts but quickly realized that the technologies available to them at the time were just too expensive to make a business case for. Together, we set out to see if there was a better way of approaching metal additive manufacturing. After seeing how electrochemical deposition created high-quality metal deposits, the team conceptualized what our process is today.