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Japanese companies are really good at internal diversification and spin-outs, and this seems to be true even in cases involving foreign subsidiaries of Japanese multinationals. Ricoh USA recently demonstrated this with its sale of Ricoh 3D for Healthcare, which the former spun off as a standalone enterprise last year. Ricoh USA sold the company to Gary Turner, previously the VP and GM of Additive Manufacturing at Ricoh USA, who has rebranded the business as Myrava.
Under Turner’s leadership, Ricoh 3D for Healthcare amassed a diverse range of FDA clearances for patient-specific anatomical models, one of the topics he discussed in a 2023 interview with 3DPrint.com’s Vanesa Listek. In 2024, Turner helped Ricoh USA open an AM Center of Excellence at North Carolina State University (NCSU), whi