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The Most Influential Personalities of Additive Manufacturing 2020

With the end of the year comes a unique opportunity to recognise the personalities who have most impacted the additive manufacturing industry: those behind the latest innovations, investments made, and most remarkable projects. 2020 was a special year in which…

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With the end of the year comes a unique opportunity to recognise the personalities who have most impacted the additive manufacturing industry: those behind the latest innovations, investments made, and most remarkable projects. 2020 was a special year in which 3D technologies found their place in the fight against coronavirus: the entire sector mobilised to develop solutions and meet the needs of our health personnel. Although it is hard not to talk about it at all, let us remember that 2020 was about more than the health crisis. 2020 is also a year during which additive manufacturing has strengthened its position as a method of producing finished parts and has attracted a good number of industrialists who have adopted 3D printing in a sustainable way by allocating dedicated resources. So which personalities made their mark on the 3D printing industry this year? These are our 12 personalities of the year 2020, ranked in alphabetical order.

Marine Coré-Baillais, founder of La Pâtisserie Numérique

If you’re a pastry enthusiast, you’ve probably heard of Marine Coré-Baillais who launched her business this year, 3D printing food. Notably, she developed a slicer for a 3D food printer and an extruder called Cakewalk3D. This was a hit on Kickstarter and raised over 26,500 euros. Marine hopes that, using additive manufacturing, all pastry chefs will be able to express their creativity more easily and imagine more complex and original forms.

Marine Coré-Baillais

Jens Ertel, Head of Additive Manufacturing Campus, BMW

In June, the car manufacturer BMW announced the opening of Additive Manufacturing Campus, a center dedicated to 3D printing technologies. This 6’000 meter squared space houses around fifty industrial, polymer and metal 3D printing solutions. Led by Dr. Jens Ertel, who has worked for the BMW Group for 25 years, it will accelerate the production of finished parts in the brand’s vehicles. Dr. Jens Ertel took over the management of the BMW Group’s first additive manufacturing centre in 2012, where he was responsible for the development of 3D technologies, prototype construction and mass production.