by VoxelMatters
Additive manufacturing is changing the world. We're here to get you ready. Welcome to the VoxelMatters Podcast, where we shine a light on the people, the technologies, and the big ideas driving the world of additive manufacturing forward. Hosted by Davide Sher, co-founder and CEO of VoxelMatters, journalist and market analyst. VoxelMatters is a media, marketing and market research company specializing in the global additive manufacturing industry.
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July 15, 2026
<p>Additive manufacturing has spent the past decade trying to prove itself worthy of a rocket engine. When a small startup out of Colorado decided to build its very first rocket engine almost entirely out of 3D printed parts, a lot of people in the industry assumed it wouldn't hold up.</p><p>Eleven years later, that company is Ursa Major, and the engine — Hadley — has flown more than ten hypersonic missions. It comes back. It gets inspected. It flies again. That track record is now the foundation for a rapidly expanding portfolio: Draper, a storable version of that same engine that just powered a supersonic flight demonstration for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in January; a solid rocket motor program built around a manufacturing approach the company calls Lynx, designed to print motors of wildly different sizes on the same equipment instead of building a new production line every time the requirement changes; and a fast-growing customer list that now includes Stratolaunch and Sirius Technologies. Along the way, Ursa Major closed a $100 million Series E funding round, broke ground on a new solid rocket motor test site in Colorado, expanded its 3D printing fleet with EOS, and helped found an alliance aimed at rebuilding America's additive manufacturing supply chain for defense.</p><p>Behind all of that is a surprisingly small team. Our guest today, Tom Pomorski, is Ursa Major's Director of Additive Manufacturing, and he joined the company five years ago to build its in-house additive program essentially from nothing — a handful of machines and a couple of engineers in Youngstown, Ohio. Today that program runs nine metal printers and fourteen people, and Pomorski has watched it grow alongside some of the most demanding flight qualification work happening anywhere in the industry right now.</p><p>In this conversation, Tom takes us inside how that program actually works — why Ursa Major's entire design process was built around additive manufacturing from day one rather than bolted on afterward, and why he thinks the industry's trust problem with 3D printing has always been more about education than about the parts themselves. We get into the details of Ursa Major's partnership with EOS, including how the company helped unlock custom scan-path software that's now available industry-wide, and what Tom calls physics-based qualification — an approach designed to validate a process once and apply it broadly, rather than requalifying every single part from scratch. We also talk about where artificial intelligence is already showing up on Ursa Major's shop floor, the materials driving their solid rocket motor and liquid engine programs, and Tom's candid take on what it would actually take—in terms of cost, openness, and machine architecture—for metal additive manufacturing to scale the way plastic printing did.</p><p>It's a rare, detailed look inside how one of the most closely watched propulsion companies in the country actually builds its engines. Here's my conversation with Tom Pomorski, Director of Additive Manufacturing at Ursa Major.</p>
November 12, 2025
<p>Welcome back to the VoxelMatters Podcast—where we shine a light on the people, the technologies, and the big ideas driving the world of additive manufacturing forward. I’m your host, <strong>Davide Sher</strong>, and today, we’re diving into a story that truly glows with innovation.</p><p>Imagine a world where your lighting fixture isn’t mass-produced in a distant factory, shipped halfway around the world, and sitting in a warehouse for months before reaching you—but instead, is 3D printed on demand, near you, for you, and made largely from recycled materials.</p><p>That world isn’t coming—it’s already here.</p><p>In this exclusive episode, we sit down with <strong>Bart Maeyens</strong>, <strong>Leader of 3D Printing at Signify</strong>—the company you might remember as <strong>Philips Lighting</strong>—to explore how Signify has turned the dream of distributed manufacturing into a global reality.</p><p>With over <strong>3.5 million 3D printed luminaires</strong> produced across five continents, Signify isn’t just rethinking how we light our homes, workplaces, and cities—it’s reimagining how products are designed, made, and delivered. From the company’s <strong>myCreation platform</strong>, which lets customers design custom fixtures online, to its <strong>automated global printing network</strong> that sends digital files to the nearest production hub, this is a masterclass in sustainability and smart manufacturing.</p><p>Bart takes us behind the scenes of this transformation—from the early question that started it all, “Can we actually leverage 3D printing to volume?”, to the moment Signify realized that additive could do more than prototype—it could produce.</p><p>We’ll explore how the company is using waste materials to create beautiful, functional lighting, how its circular manufacturing model is reducing CO₂ by up to 30%, and why Bart believes we’re entering a decade where “the global economy won’t be as global”—a decade where local, digital production just makes sense.</p><p>And of course, we’ll talk about what’s next: the upcoming “Titan” platform that’s set to redefine the boundaries of design and performance in 3D printed lighting.</p><p>So grab your headphones, adjust your brightness settings, and get ready to see how Signify is illuminating the future—one layer at a time.</p>
September 25, 2025
<p>Some might not have realized it yet, but creating 3D models—whether for virtual worlds like gaming or for physical use in 3D printing—has recently become a heck of a lot more accessible. This shift is driven by a new wave of AI applications, like Tripo 3D, that can transform text prompts or 2D images into fully developed 3D models. </p><p><br></p><p>VAST, the company behind Tripo, emerged from an open-source collaboration among AI and 3D engineers blending virtual and physical 3D worlds. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of the VoxelMatters Podcast, Founder Simon Song tells us how he is making 3D printing truly ubiquitous.</p>
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Additive manufacturing is changing the world. We're here to get you ready.
Welcome to the VoxelMatters Podcast, where we shine a light on the people, the technologies, and the big ideas driving the world of additive manufacturing forward.
Hosted by Davide Sher, co-founder and CEO of VoxelMatters, journalist and market analyst.
VoxelMatters is a media, marketing and market research company specializing in the global additive manufacturing industry.
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