Youngstown company refreshes architecture with 3D printing

When we talk about 3D printing, a lot of the focus has been on more industrial applications, but there’s a company in Youngstown able to preserve a piece of the past with some technology straight out of the future.

Freshmade 3D, inside the Youngstown Business Incubator’s Tech Block Building Five, has a different approach from some of the heavy industrial 3D printing companies.

“Additive manufacturing has been tremendously popular for manufacturing tools and industrial uses, which is super important. But something that I feel has been overlooked is the use for artistic and creative applications,” said Freshmade co-founder and CEO Rich Wetzel.

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Written by Steve Vesey.

Originally published June 3, 2020.