Formnext Start-Up Challenge 2023: What Do This Year’s Winners Expect From the Event?

The most anticipated event of the year in the Additive Manufacturing industry, Formnext 2023 is just around the corner. Held in Frankfurt, Germany, from November 7 to 10, companies and professionals from all over the world have already secured their presence at the event par excellence dedicated to 3D printing. After welcoming as many as 29,581 visitors in the 2022 edition and more than 800 exhibitors, expectations for this year are even higher! This year, as always, the winning start-ups of the Formnext Start-Up Challenge 2023 will also be present at the event. Winning the award for the 2023 edition were Odapt (Spain), Endless Industries (Germany), Helio Additive (USA), Vitro3D (USA) and Progresja New Materials (Poland). The latter also won the AM Ventures Impact Award, the prize dedicated to the most sustainable project.

Formnext’s Start-up Challenge supports the most promising start-ups by offering competition winners free participation in the fair with their own booth and a full marketing package. Indeed, this year as with others it will be possible to meet the winning start-ups at their booths in the Start-up Areas (Hall 11.1.-B55 or 12.0-B81). In addition, the winners also have the opportunity to make themselves known during Pitchnext, a pitch event to be held on November 7, 2023, at 2 PM, at the Industry Stage (11.0 D72).

Formnext Start-Up Challenge 2023 Winners

Now in its ninth year, the Formnext Start-up Challenge rewards young international additive manufacturing companies for their innovative and cutting-edge business ideas. This year’s award-winning innovations, in particular, showcase the wide range of possible applications of Additive Manufacturing and range from medical applications, to recycling titanium as a printing material, to analytical software, to new 3D printing technologies targeting the automotive, electronics, dental and mechanical engineering sectors, among others.