The Upload

3D printing and injection molding work well for plastic parts. Which is better? It depends.

The recent Suez Canal ship blockage shows the need to mitigate supply chain risks.

The crew at Hacksmith Industries are pros in taking fictional ideas from comics, movies, and video games, and making actual functioning prototypes. So naturally, we teamed up to help them create creating the world’s fastest grappling hook winch, made famous on The Mandalorian series.

Explore the variables involved in calculating the cost of 3D-printed parts when using metal additive manufacturing technologies.

An online manufacturing platform offers the best of service bureau AND supplier network options.

We’re pleased to announce our all-new digital quoting platform.

Explore how our new manufacturing analysis system can help optimize your CAD model

A speedier method for one of the fastest 3D printing processes and new light-sensing, color changing material top this month’s search for innovation.

Our Board of Directors has unanimously elected Protolabs’ VP and GM of Americas, Robert Bodor, to succeed Vicki Holt as our President and Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2021.

In 2020, agile sourcing and swift pivots helped the manufacturing industry fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Explore options available for building and post-processing clear parts for 3D printing.

Digital manufacturing methods fit National Labs' low-volume, multi-iteration, on-demand needs.