VoxelMatters Podcast

About VoxelMatters Podcast

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.

Publisher

VoxelMatters

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Mar 2019

Latest episode

14 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Gianni Zitelli on building Axtra 3D

   Gianni Zitelli did not wait for the dust to settle at Axtra 3D’s newly opened European headquarters in Vicenza (https://www.voxelmatters.com/axtra3d-opens-expanded-vicenza-facility-as-eu-operations-enter-new-phase/) before sitting down for a conversation. The 1,600-square-meter facility—a standalone building housing material validation, application development, manufacturing, and customer support—had just opened its doors when VoxelMatters caught up with the company’s co-founder and CEO, samples in hand and the energy of a launch event still in the room. The company turned five in April. What began as a friends-and-family seed round in May 2021 has grown into a multinational operation with two facilities, more than 60 installations worldwide, and a repeat customer rate that Zitelli cited as the clearest measure of the company’s health. Listen to VoxelMatters exclusive interview with Gianni Zitelli, Co-founder & CEO of Axtra 3D.

2. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Alex Monino and 10 years of HP Additive Manufacturing

   At its recent media day, HP marked 10 years since it first showed the world Multi Jet Fusion, the powder bed fusion technology that became the foundation of its 3D printing business. VoxelMatters sat down separately with Alex Monino, SVP and GM of Additive Manufacturing Solutions at HP, who joined the 3D printing effort in 2013 and has run the commercial side of it since. The conversation traces the arc from a blank sheet of paper in the early 2010s to a business Monino said is now growing at 25 percent and to the launch of the HP 1200, the company's newest and most accessible MJF system.

3. 

   15 Jul 2026

   Ursa Major is taking AM hypersonic, one layer at a time

   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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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