The Faces of Additive Manufacturing: Hanan Gothait

We continue our series on the personalities that have shaped and impacted the additive manufacturing world with our second personality, Hanan Gothait, CEO of XJet. He is behind multiple projects and the patented technology launched by the company also known as NanoParticle Jetting™. This is a groundbreaking technology as it enables production of metal and ceramic parts with the same ease and versatility as inkjet printing. We had the pleasure of discussing with him the trends in AM and his forecasts for the industry. In particular about ceramic 3D printing which is disrupting traditional manufacturing in many industries and is a segment of AM he had a lot to say about.

Hanan Gothait, Founder of Objet Geometries Ltd.

Hanan Gothait was the Co-Founder of Objet Geometries Ltd., a company that reinvented the field of 3D polymer printing with its patented PolyJet technology. The PolyJet technology was a 3D printing solution that combined inkjet technology and the use of polymers. In 2004, Hanan Gothait left Objet to pursue other projects before the company merged with Stratasys in 2012.

In 2005 Hanan became the CEO of XJet, committing to a decade of research to develop another revolutionary 3D printing technology. The company holds more than 80 patents registered and pending. Through Gothait’s guidance, XJet launched a revolutionary new additive manufacturing process, NanoParticle Jetting™, in 2016. The technology was developed for the additive manufacture of metal and ceramics and the first platforms to use it were launched a year later – the Carmel 1400 and Carmel 700 systems.