Inkjet & Digital Printing
CAN YOU BUILD A BUSINESS AND ROI WITH MCOR 3D PRINTING?
Tuesday 03. June 2014 - The explosive growth of 3D printing over the last few years has prompted entrepreneurs from all walks of life to develop innovative new businesses centered around the technology. Some of these businesses are spin offs of existing companies that have arisen out of high demand. In other cases, enterprising people have searched high and low and found the big idea that will allow them to make a lot of money with the technology.
In many cases, we’ve seen companies that have been firmly entrenched in the 2D printing space make the logical expansion into 3D printing out of fiscal necessity in order to expand their portfolio of offerings. 3D printing, especially Mcor’s paper 3D printing technology, is the perfect complement to, and extension of, their existing portfolio. They are already paper experts, familiar with the benefits of using paper and they certainly have plenty of paper in stock.
Some of the business ideas people come up with are similar, while others offer their own unique twist on an existing product or service. But in all cases, they start by asking the all-important question, “Can I sustain a whole business and generating an ROI with Mcor 3D printing technology?”
The answer is, “Yes! Absolutely.” And, I’m not just talking about the fast-growing list of Mcor Certified Resellers worldwide who sell and support Mcor 3D printers, as well as offer 3D printing service bureaus using Mcor 3D printing technology. Rather, I’m focused on end customers who are building businesses around Mcor technology.
Take Gunma Internet for example. They provide a unique scan-to-print service for consumers, specialising in 3D printing realistic, full colour figurines exclusively on the Mcor IRIS of subjects that can’t sit still, such as children and pets.
Williams 3D is another successful company profiting with the Mcor IRIS. There, the IRIS anchors a 3D print service bureau that primarily serves industrial clients who require prototypes for product design, yet also serves medical and architectural customers and consumers.
There’s Charles Aquilina. He built a thriving business in Malta providing furniture manufacturers solely with Mcor 3D printed prototypes of furniture designs so they can make better furniture, faster. He also uses his Mcor 3D printer to create prototypes of statues to honor patron saints that are so popular in Malta. He is in high demand to create architectural models as well, including cathedrals, real estate developments and large hotels, for stakeholders to faster and more affordably improve designs and speed the approval process.
Micro CADD Services (MCS) is another long-standing, highly successful 3D printing service bureau dependent upon using Mcor 3D printing technology exclusively. MCS specialises in 3D printing architectural and GIS models, including very large-scale models for the government that are placed on public display following their practical use in master planning. MCS also discovered the incredible cost benefit of using Mcor 3D printers to create castings and expanded their service offering to create bronze parts. They create survey markers, for example, by 3D printing the pattern, creating a mould from the pattern, and investment casting the finished marker.
Clare Goddard runs a very different business using only Mcor’s 3D printing technology. Clare is a world-renowned artist and designer who has evolved her craft as a result of the shapes and detail produced on an Mcor 3D printer, that she has found are virtually impossible to create in any other way, while adhering to the affordable, eco-friendly and tactile requirements of her work.
Those are just a few examples of innovators who have built successful, profitable businesses around Mcor 3D printing.