R3 Printing Bets on American-Made Industrial FFF 3D Printers

For years, co-founders Paul Sieradzki and Petra Wood ran a 3D printing service bureau in New York. As they worked day to day with the printers, they experienced firsthand the challenges of scaling the business. Desktop machines needed constant attention and repair, while industrial systems were expensive and often locked users into proprietary materials, software, and service contracts. Neither offered what his business really needed. So instead of accepting those limitations, he decided to build something different.

That decision eventually became R3 Printing, a company that spent nearly eight years developing its own industrial fused filament fabrication (FFF) platform. It was the printer he wished had existed while running the service bureau. Together, they launched their first commerc