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PRESS RELEASES

Imaginarium Joins the 3MF Consortium

Imaginarium, India’s largest additive manufacturer, has joined the 3MF Consortium as an associate member. 

Conquering Major Milestones: Imaginarium has announced it’s AS9100D Certification

Imaginarium has announced a major milestone, receival of the AS9100D certification.

Imaginarium and Formlabs Announce APM as a Value Added Reseller

New Delhi based 3D scanner solution provider, APM has joined the Formlabs and Imaginarium VAD Ecosystem as a value added reseller.

Imaginarium joins GE Additive Sales Partner Network to accelerate adoption of metal 3D printing technology in India

Will cater to the advanced prototyping and production requirements in the Aerospace & Defence, Dental, Medical, Jewellery and Automotive sectors.

FEATURED NEWS

DNA INDIA

September 17, 2017

All you need to know about 3D printing in India!

The way the technology works is that it uses input in one state and as it deposits it on the printbed (the part, on a 3D printer, where the form takes shape).

ENGINEERING REVIEW

April 17, 2019

Powering Ideas & Innovation

With the largest set-up of 3D printers in the country, Imaginarium is one of the pioneers in bringing 3D printing and additive manufacturing into India. In more than a decade of its existence.

NEWS18

May 25, 2018

HP Aims at Partnering With Indian Government to Push 3D Printing Dream

HP continues to reinvent the $12 trillion global manufacturing market, including the $6 trillion Asia-Pacific and Japan manufacturing segment.

FEATURED VIDEOS

ABP NEWS

February 13, 2019

How 3D printing is giving patients new hope with customised solutions to their problems

For the first time in Mumbai, Imaginarium used 3D printing to create a customised titanium cranial implant for a patient whose skull had been damaged in an accident.

CNBC TV18

October 6, 2018

How Does 3D Printing Works?

Sumeer Chandra, HP, and Guruprasad Rao, Imaginarium, introduce HP’s new Jet Fusion 3D Printer and explain HP’s new partnership with Volkswagen. They discuss how 3D printing works, it’s integration into the automotive and dental industry, market size, and growth of 3D printing.

HUNNARBAAZ

May 15, 2018

Hunnarbaaz

Imaginarium 3D-printed a titanium cranial implant that helped improve an accident survivor’s life.

ET NOW

March 30, 2017

Demystifying 3-D Printing

Imaginarium speaks to ET NOW to explain what 3D printing is, how to convert ideas into reality, how 3D printing is benefiting the medical field, and how to enter the market yourself.

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November 19, 2021 | BIS INFOTECH

3D Printing-Scaling New Heights

The thin line dividing the digital and reality has started to blur with the advancements and adoption of 3D Printing at a mass scale. India is steadily climbing the adoption ladder and showing its presence in the metamorphic market of 3D Printing.

January 29, 2020 | TIMES OF INDIA

Creating Value Through Technology: The Future of Gems and Jewellery

The future of manufacturing is 3D and most industries are beginning to adopt it. We travelled to Imaginarium to learn more about it.

November 23, 2019 | BLOOMBERG QUINT

How 3D Printing Can Change The World

The future of manufacturing is 3D and most industries are beginning to adopt it. We travelled to Imaginarium to learn more about it.

April 17, 2019 | ENGINEERING REVIEW

Powering Ideas & Innovation

With the largest set-up of 3D printers in the country, Imaginarium is one of the pioneers in bringing 3D printing and additive manufacturing into India. In more than a decade of its existence.

March 8, 2019 | TCT MAGAZINE

How Free-D is using 3D printing to empower women

According to the latest statistics from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), for every 1,000 people in the world, there are 5.4 people living in modern slavery. Over 70% are women. But “knowledge is power” and London-based organisation, Free-D wants to use 3D technologies to empower women from at-risk backgrounds.

March 8, 2019 | INDUSTRY

Continuous improvement is a mindset - Guruprasad Rao, Director & Mentor, Imaginarium India

Operational excellence is a continuous journey. It is all about the best management practices using existing resources. So, its focus is on productivity, loss reductions, cycle time reduction and quality improvements.

January 23, 2019 | CIO

HP Inc: 3D printing will be democratized in India

The company, as part of its partner and innovation ecosystem, is working with Mumbai-based Imaginarium, Noida-based Ad Tech and also with national value added distributor Redington.

December 17, 2018 | THE HINDU

Girls, Uninterrupted: helping women beat the odds with technology

A London-based firm is trying to deploy the latest technologies to help disadvantaged women beat the odds in coping with one of their biggest life risks

September 20, 2018 | AUTO TECH REVIEW

HP Unveils Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution in India

Sumeer Chandra, Managing Director, HP Inc. India, said 3D printing will transform the manufacturing landscape of the country.

September 18, 2018 | FORBES INDIA

The 3D fine print

3D printing is making advances in health care by preparing doctors for complicated cases and customising solutions for patients. But there's a long way to go before it becomes the standard procedure for treatment

August 9, 2018 | THE FASHION ENTERPRISE

Is 3D Printing Lending Fashion A New Commercial Dimension?

Like everything else in life, the fashion industry keeps reinventing itself at every striking hour. With the concept of 3D printing having set its foot firmly into the fashion business, it’s surprising how many of us do not to know how it works or how to make the best use of it.

July 25, 2018 | MM INDIA

Realizing The Impossible

Imaginarium has been at the forefront of the 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing wave in India for over a decade now. The company started off as a service bureau with a small footprint in the Jewelry industry, slowly expanding to sectors such as Automotive, Engineering, Electronics, Dental etc.

June 13, 2018 | INDUSTRY

Time To Switch From Supply Chain To Demand Chain

The manufacturing regime is coming to an end. Its main value is its disruptive cost of production per piece. This signifies that you make a million parts and part cost becomes negligibly small.

May 25, 2018 | MAGZTER

3D Printing in India

How India’s largest 3D printing and rapid prototype company is making businesses and individuals rethink their manufacturing methods.

May 25, 2018 | NEWS18

HP Aims at Partnering With Indian Government to Push 3D Printing Dream

HP continues to reinvent the $12 trillion global manufacturing market, including the $6 trillion Asia-Pacific and Japan manufacturing segment.

April 14, 2018 | CIO

Where does India stand?

Enterprises can completely revamp engineering, manufacturing and supply chain with 3D printing, say experts.

February 2, 2018 | PRINT WEEK

Imaginarium introduces India’s first 3D printer by HP

The Jet Fusion 3D printing solution was commercially launched by HP in the country on 17 January 2018. Imaginarium is the first customer of the system in India and the machine has been installed at its additive manufacturing facility in Mumbai.

February 2, 2018 | INDIAN PRINTER PUBLISHER

Mumbai's Imaginarium showcased HP Jet Fusion 3D 4200 3D Printer

Andheri East based lmaginarium, a leader in 3d printing and advanced manufacturing technology recently showcased india's first commercial HP 3D Printer-The HP Jet Fusion 304200 printing solution-at its the art additive manufacturing facility.

January 24, 2018 | VC CIRCLE

Healthcare revolution? Doctors can now make their own drugs using 3D printers

3D printers could spark a healthcare revolution with the technology now seemingly capable of manufacturing drugs.

January 24, 2018 | CHIZEL

Everything You Need To Know About HP’s New 3D Printer

The latest talk around 3D Printing industry is the launch of HP’s first ever 3D Printer in India which works on HP’s proprietary Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) technology. MJF is quite similar to Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) (SLS). Both are powder based technologies and there is no support structure generation in either of them.

January 17, 2018 | MANUFACTURING TODAY INDIA

Imaginarium Showcases India’s First HP 3D Printer, Outlines Go to Market Strategy

Imaginarium, leaders in advanced manufacturing solutions, showcased India’s first commercial HP 3D Printer, the HP Jet Fusion 3D 4200 printing solution on Tuesday, demonstrating its disruptive prototyping and manufacturing capabilities as well as outlining their go to market strategy as one of the first reselling partners of the product in India.

December 20, 2017 | MACHINE MARKET INDIA

Tracking india’s additive mfging industry

In India, the manufacturing sectors are quite conservative in adopting new technologies and the market is also price sensitive particularly after globalization. While the automotive industry was the first to identify, invest and adopt new technologies,

December 18, 2017 | CIO

India is slow in adopting 3D printing: Guruprasad Rao

Guruprasad Rao, Director and mentor, Imaginarium talks about the roadblocks in 3D printing technology, the benifits of its adoption and much.

November 27, 2017 | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST

Here’s how the heroes of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks will be remembered

The trophy is a celebration of the spirit of Mumbai,” says Tanmay Shah, Head of Innovations for Imaginarium, adding, “The Gateway of India symbolises unity, solidarity, communal harmony and resilience. It also represents the grandeur of the city.

November 22, 2017 | ECONOMIC TIMES

3D printing, when integrated with TRIZ, makes creative problem-solving simpler

Gamification with 3D printed artefacts would make the TRIZ tools playful, and hence easy to adopt.

November 21, 2017 | AUTO TECH REVIEW

Imaginarium Is Helping Out Manufacturers With Short-Run Production Goals

In an interaction with Atit Kothari, Business Development - Leadership Team, Imaginarium (India) Pvt Ltd, we find out about the role of additive manufacturing in the automotive industry and its advantages for short-run production cycles.

November 17, 2017 | CIO

The future is 3D Printing: Guruprasad Rao, Imaginarium

Guruprasad Rao began his career over 30 years ago and is an expert on industrial and product design, innovation, design thinking and engineering. He holds a PhD in product design from IIT Bombay and is currently the director and mentor of the leadership team at Imaginarium India, Asia’s largest 3D printing company.

November 14, 2017 | ENTREPRENEUR

The Technological Tillers in the World of the Digital User Interface

Imagine a world where cars come without steering wheels. Chances are that your imagination conjured up a futuristic world where self-driving cars no longer require human intervention, and therefore the need for steering wheels is redundant.

October 27, 2017 | E27

All you want to know about 3D printing

From cars to smartphones to apparel, even the food you eat, everything will be personalised, manufactured, locally and on demand with the help of 3D printing

October 26, 2017 | KILLER FEATURES

This India company is helping underprivileged women earn money through 3D Printing

Imaginarium is partnering with an organisation called Free_D which aims to provide training to disadvantaged women in the 3D printing space. It works primarily with survivors of human trafficking.

October 9, 2017 | CELL INK

Imaginarium sees 3D Printing facilitate organ transplant and tissue generation in future

Imaginarium believes the field of 3D printing has been growing rapidly. It is an advanced manufacturing technology where physical objects are created from digital data, using specialised machines known as 3D printers.

October 3, 2017 | PHARMA BIZ

Pharmaceutical & healthcare sectors need to adopt 3D technology to improve medical science

Pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors will need to embrace 3D technology, not only for convenience but also for the improvement of medical science in the future, said Tanmay Shah, Head of Innovations, Imaginarium Life.

September 29, 2017 | ECONOMIC TIMES

Should business be creating prototypes to make ideas work better?

Ideas can be highly contagious. But then ideas sparks are also fragile and need to be parked before they fly away. Ideas have the ability to trigger new ideas.

September 18, 2017 | BUSINESS STANDARD

Mass customization via 3D Printing will soon be normal: Imaginarium

Imaginarium has created an online platform for Indian users where they can submit a design, select building materials and get the desired 3D printed object. Jewellery is the most popular segment in this so far.

September 17, 2017 | DNA INDIA

All you need to know about 3D printing in India!

The way the technology works is that it uses input in one state and as it deposits it on the printbed (the part, on a 3D printer, where the form takes shape).

September 13, 2017 | STUFF

The joy of 3D printing for the creative, geeky or curious soul

The next time you feel creative, have an injury or a unique gifting idea, head to Imaginarium

September 13, 2017 | SCULPTEO

3D printing in India: Additive Manufacturing for Women Empowerment with the Free_D project

3D printing, and the computer 3D design skills associated with it (known as C.A.D.), is a technology that is increasingly being adopted by many industries. Furthermore, CAD and 3D printing expose apprentices to problem-solving and design thinking as well as encouraging basic literacy.

September 10, 2017 | MID DAY

Imagining a future

The buzzword in the tech and design world, 3D-printing, has now knocked on the doors of underprivileged women in Thane. Katherine Prescott is the CEO of Free_D, which aims to provide disadvantaged women with 3D-printing skills.

September 8, 2017 | GIZ CRUNCH

Imaginarium gives your imagination a 3d reality

Industries and consumers have already started getting the touch of 3D printed objects and this new form of printing has been spreading at a greater pace. Imaginarium, an India-based company is one of the earlier adopters in 3D printing.

July 17, 2017 | TECHNO BHANDAR

Time To 3D – India’s First of it’s Kind 3D Printing Hub

3D Printing – is the most often used term for Additive manufacturing – is the process of creating a solid three-dimensional physical object from a digital file or design. Unlike traditional manufacturing methods where a material is removed from a solid block, 3D printing technologies build products layer-by-layer.

July 14, 2017 | THE HINDU

Think it, print it

Across the globe, 3D printing has become an almost magical reality. If you fancy a nine-course meal ‘printed’ on order — accompanied by printed cutlery and furniture (and virtual reality headsets that play music composed by an artificial intelligence computer)

July 1, 2017 | ENTREPRENEUR

Entrepreneurs Must Realize That Virtual is the Reality in the New World

Finding the right attire for men shouldn’t be all that difficult, right? Wrong. I detest the ritual of clothes shopping. My patience lasts not more than three stores, all in the same mall preferably. The process seems more like finding a needle in a haystack than cherry picking. There ought to be a better way.

May 1, 2017 | ENTREPRENEUR

Indian Firms Are Only Copying Western Models Of 3D Technology

3D Printing is rapidly evolving to expand its reach to sectors like aeronautics, engineering, fashion design, education, healthcare and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).

April 27, 2017 | BIO SPECTRUM INDIA

3D printing revolutionising Indian healthcare

3D printing is a digital manufacturing process that ‘prints’ three-dimensional objects, layer upon layer using a variety of polymers, metals and ceramics. 3D printing is a digital manufacturing process that ‘prints’ three-dimensional objects, layer upon layer using a variety of polymers, metals and ceramics.

April 24, 2017 | THE MACHINIST

Imaginarium opens first 3D Printing café in Mumbai

The city of Mumbai has recently witnessed the launch of a first of its kind 3D Printing Hub, where you can walk in and start using this amazing technology first-hand. The hub aims at creating a platform for community engagement and increasing awareness of 3D printing among the general public

November 19, 2015 | 3DPRINT

Exclusive Interview: Imaginarium’s Director, Guruprasad Rao, Discusses His Company & Inside 3D Printing Mumbai

MecklerMedia‘s Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo is coming to India. Inside 3D Printing Mumbai will take place December 3-4, with the first such event in the country. Excitement is building now, as the event is just two weeks away, complete with a 3D Design Contest and even a concert featuring 3D printed instruments.

August 14, 2015 | 3DIANS

Guruprasad Kuppu Rao, Director- Technology & Operations at Imaginarium India Pvt.Ltd

Incorporated in 2009, Imaginarium is the largest 3D printing company in India. The company’s founders had known about the technology and benefits as early as 2000. The company was formed to enable every industry to benefit from the new technology.

October 27, 2013 | TCT MAGAZINE

3D printed jewellery hitting the mainstream

The Jeweller has been around since the 50s but is seeing a surge in popularity due to the ability of allowing customers to personalize finely detailed pieces of gold, silver, and platinum jewellery, quickly, and more cheaply than the traditional jewellery-making process, without ever setting foot in the store.

August 18, 2013 | DNA INDIA

Can 3D printers save lives?

This April, a cancer survivor in the United Kingdom became the first ever patient to have his face reconstructed using a 3D printed prosthetic. The cancer had left him with a gaping hole on the left of his face, requiring him to be fed through a tube fitted into his stomach.