TDK Ventures invests in additive manufacturing space — TDK Corporation will provide its extensive experience in mass manufacturing and electronic materials to jointly explore new additive production markets.

NP Swabs Prove 3D Printing’s Scalability and Speed-to-Market Advantages — A year ago, if you would have asked anyone in our industry what they thought might be a future killer application, it’s highly doubtful that anyone would have replied with, “nasopharyngeal swabs.” Until recently, it was a niche product and the entire market was serviced by a few dominant industry players.

The origin of Origin’s 3D printed nasal swabs — San Francisco company Origin is one of a handful of 3D printing companies that set out to develop and mass produce 3D printed nasopharyngeal testing swabs for COVID-19 diagnosis. This effort was a direct response to a lack of conventional swabs; stores of the traditional swabs, only produced by a select group of companies around the globe, were rapidly depleted as countries around the world ramped up COVID-19 testing.

3DHEALS 2020 Virtual Medical Summit: 3D-Printed Materials in Healthcare — Steve Kranz definitely offered some of the most interesting information regarding materials, and Origin’s recent transformation from software developer and 3D printer manufacturer to a ‘swab factory’ in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The San Francisco-headquartered company began manufacturing a variety of different 3D-printed swabs for testing purposes, as well as originally designing shields and other personal protection equipment, to include adapting snorkels to be transformed into N-95-style face masks.

Henkel and Origin collaborate to help meet demand for COVID-19 NP swabs — Henkel´s and Origin´s first FDA compliant, sterile, 3D printed nasopharyngeal test swab now shipping

How 3D Printing Test Swabs Will Help Fulfill America's Shortage — COVID-19 testing is of the utmost importance but there is a major shortage of testing swabs. The 3D printing industry has come together to tackle this problem head-on. HP, Origin, Carbon, Desktop Metal and more are working to ramp up swab production.

Open Development and Clinical Validation Of Multiple 3D-Printed Nasopharyngeal Collection Swabs — Rapid Resolution of a Critical COVID-19 Testing Bottleneck

Startups are making nasal swabs, clinical testing booths, and fever detection systems to fight the pandemic — Here are the 11 coolest pivots in tech since the coronavirus outbreak

The race to 3D-print 4 million COVID-19 test swabs a week — 3D printing companies hope to help produce tens of millions of swabs for the American public. It’s a race against time.

3D Printing Companies Shift to Produce Swabs for Coronavirus Testing — Tech companies are stepping up to help in the shortage of swabs needed to test for COVID-19.

Stratasys and Origin Partner to Bring Millions of 3D-Printed Nasopharyngeal Swabs to Healthcare Providers for COVID-19 Testing — Stratasys and Origin are partnering to deliver millions of 3D-printed nasal swabs to healthcare providers and testing centers.

When these Boston doctors ran out of virus-testing swabs, they mobilized an army of 3-D printers — How one hospital and some manufacturers with 3-D printing capabilities came up with new designs and new supplies of swabs for coronavirus testing.

3D printed swabs help solve COVID-19 testing kit shortage — San Francisco company Origin makes high-level 3D printers for automotive and footwear industries and for the federal government.

3D printing companies help boost production of coronavirus testing swabs — CNBC’s Josh Lipton reports on how coronavirus testing could be ramped up with the help of 3D printing testing swabs.

BIDMC-led clinical trial identifies four novel 3D-printed swabs for use in COVID-19 testing — Large-scale production could reduce one obstacle to widespread COVID-19 testing.

From Making 3D Printers To Manufacturing COVID-19 Test Swabs, A Startup Pivots — Over the last two weeks, San Francisco-based Origin has quickly shifted its resources from being a 3D printer manufacturer to becoming a medical device manufacturer, and has started production to address the massive shortage of COVID-19 test kits.

Origin 3D-Printed COVID-19 Test Swabs Clinical Trial and Validation Completed with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Company Ramps Production of Millions of Test Swabs in the Coming Weeks

The Collaboration We Need: Consortium Propels 3D Printed COVID-19 Test Swabs — Validated manufacturers around the country are now poised to rapidly produce up to 4 million 3D printed swabs per week, starting today.

BIDMC physician-scientists spearhead effort to address nationwide COVID-19 testing swab shortage — 3D-printable COVID-19 testing swabs could help address nationwide shortage in a multidisciplinary effort spearheaded by BIDMC physicians.

Software is enabling medical 3D printing innovation: Here’s how — The 3D printers themselves get a lot of attention, but for 3D-printing to become ubiquitous in the medtech space, software will have to play a key role.

This 3D-printed four-legged robot is ready to take on Spot — at a lower price — The finished pieces are comparable in quality to their CNC machined predecessors, although they can be printed for just one-quarter the cost.

The Promise of Full Polymerization in Resin 3D Printing — Through hardware, software and material partnerships, the company is changing what is possible inside a photopolymerization printer.

Production 3D Printing With Roots in Materials Development: The Origin Story — Production-oriented polymer AM machine uses the same platform with the same range of controls originally conceived for material development.

The Future Is Now: "Now we can 3D print materials that were traditionally unprintable" With Chris Prucha, CEO of Origin — We want openness to win because it will increase material diversity and increase innovation in the ecosystem.

First Fire Safe 3D Printable Resin Produced — 3D printer manufacturer Origin announced a new Loctite resin that meets aerospace fire safety standards.

Henkel and Origin unveil fire-resistant 3D printing photopolymer ahead of Formnext — "The development of our new fire-resistant material is a real breakthrough innovation."

Henkel launches first photoreactive 3D printing material meeting aerospace fire, smoke and toxicity safety standards — Open technology breakthrough in collaboration with Origin

Origin Named to 2019 CNBC Upstart 100 List — CNBC Recognizes Origin as a Promising New Startup

Origin Starts Shipping Origin One 3D Printer — "Shipping our first production printer, Origin One, is a huge milestone for the company."

Origin to Begin Shipping New Industrial 3D Printer, the Origin One

Origin Announces its 3D Printer, Origin One, is Now Shipping — Company’s Growing Momentum Spurs New Customers, the Appointment of a COO and New Office Space

How Origin Was able to Produce 100 Parts in 24 hours at a Fraction of the Cost of Traditional Manufacturing

Origin Seeks Fast, Collaborative Process

[Audio] Meet Origin - 3D Printing For Mass Production

Inside Origin One: innovation, collaboration and thermo polymerisation — "We’re relying on an ecosystem to build this."

Healthcare Systems Manufacturer Reduces Per-part Cost 10x by Harnessing New Open Additive Ecosystem

[Video] Unlocking Mass Additive Manufacturing with Origin’s Chris Prucha

BASF 3D Printing Solutions and Origin collaborate with footwear manufacturer ECCO

Origin to Unveil “Origin One” at RAPID; New Manufacturing-Grade 3D Printing System Enables Additive Mass Production — Leading footwear manufacturer ECCO is using Origin One’s programmable photopolymerization process and Open Material Network to cut production costs and get to market faster

DSM and Origin announce partnership to enable new materials for Origin’s open additive manufacturing platform

DSM joins Origin open materials network and introduces Somos PerFORM HW material

Additive Breakthroughs Enable Consumer-Grade Finishes That Rival Injection Molding

RAPID + TCT Exhibitor Highlights — Visitors to RAPID + TCT can expect industry firsts...

The Importance Of Materials Partnerships

Big Ideas in Additive Manufacturing, Insights from am Experts at Ford, Origin and RadTech

Henkel joins Origin’s Open Additive Manufacturing Platform to develop materials for mass production

Henkel and Origin to partner for additive manufacturing at scale

Origin announces Henkel as second Open Material Network partner — "We believe our open network approach with Henkel and other strategic partners will fundamentally reshape manufacturing and global supply chains."

Henkel Joins Origin’s Open Material Network to Enable New Chemistries for Additive Mass Production

3D Printing Predictions for 2019 — New Materials

Exclusive — Origin Discusses Its Unique Mass 3D Printing Process

Origin launches Open Additive Manufacturing platform and announces BASF partnership — BASF will unveil new photopolymer materials at Formnext formulated on the Origin platform.

New 3-D printing company gets help from BASF — The firm, Origin, raised $10 million in its series A round

Origin Comes Out of Stealth and Introduces Open Additive Manufacturing — A Completely New Approach to Additive Manufacturing

Origin — Making 3D Printing ready for Mass Production

Announcing our Investment in Origin