3D printing is rapidly gaining popularity, and almost every country now has a number of 3D printing companies offering 3D printers, materials, components, and services. This article looks at some of the most popular 3D printing companies in New Zealand.

RAM3D, headquartered in Tauranga, is a metal AM service provider in Australasia. It is one of the most widely known 3D printing companies in New Zealand. And has played a significant part in spreading the word about the technology throughout New Zealand by making metal components for a wide variety of clients and putting a strong emphasis on education and publicity. The business has also aided in the transition from prototyping to production by teaching many people the value of Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM).

It offers services in a range of sectors including Aerospace, Defence, Marine, Food Manufacturing, Industry & Specialty, Cycling and more.

Eight metal AM machines, seven by Renishaw, are currently in use at RAM3D. The materials 15-5 PH and 316 stainless steel, Inconel 718, titanium (Ti6Al4V), and maraging tool steel can all be found in the form of individual components.

Some of its esteemed clients include Oceania Defence, Autodesk, Victory Knives, Aeromotors Ltd. etc.

Zenith Tecnica is one of largest 3D printing companies in New Zealand and Australia. They offer metal 3D printing services of Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion. It was an early adopter of the Arcam EBM machines in the region and now operates three Arcam Q10 Plus and two Arcam Q20 machines. Zenith Tecnica is the name to rely upon when it comes to titanium additive manufacturing.

It produces titanium components and has already sent over 400 into space. An additive manufacturing materials testing lab is being set up by Zenith Tecnica in conjunction with Massey University.

It offers services in a range of sectors including Space & Aviation, Marine & Composites, Medical and Veterinary, High Performance & Specialty. Maxar Technologies, OSSIS, and Skrunkwerks are some of its clients.

Castiot Limited, with headquarters in Auckland’s Papakura Central Business District, owns and operates Marvle3D. It sells all kinds of 3D printing products including 3D printers, filament and resins, 3D Scanners, 3D printer components, or a 3D printing service in New Zealand.

Marvel3D sells popular brands like Creality, Flashforge, EinScan, ESUN, SUNLU, Elegoo, and others.

QOROX is a leading-edge tech firm that is inexpensively introducing additive manufacturing and Construction 4.0 to the New Zealand construction industry. It is a 3D construction printing company from

QOROX’s building processes and systems are revolutionising the construction industry by drastically cutting down on building times while maintaining the highest levels of quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability.

The construction 3D printing process employed by QOROX to make printed structures is quite efficient to save time, cost and materials. When compared to conventional building methods, it is 75% quicker and generates 70% less waste. QOROX provides the building sector with a robust alternative to traditional construction. It provides an array of services, including commercial, residential, landscaping, roading, and full customization and scalability.

Optimal3D is an innovative New Zealand rapid prototyping company specialising in 3D printing and CNC machining. Its aim is to give New Zealanders a stress-free experience that is not only of high quality but also affordable. The company uses a wide range of technologies, to cater to a wide range of industries.

Optimal3D offers CNC Machining and 3D Printing services. It boasts of 18 CNC Machines, 32 3D Printers and 4 Metal 3D printers (including Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) and Multi Jet Fusion (MJF), to deliver parts in close to 100 different materials.

This family run business can build anything from prototypes to high volume production parts.

The Tauranga-based studio of 3Design specialises in 3D printing solutions and 3D printer sales. Founded in 2014, 3Design is an authorised reseller of truly revolutionary and feature-rich 3D Printers that deliver high-performance 3D printing unlike anything else you’ve seen. 3Design sells 3D Printers from the most reputable manufacturers, including Wanhao, Cubicon, CreatBot, Photocentric, and Carima.

It uses a range of 3D printing technologies like Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), Digital Light Processing (DLP), and Stereolithography (SLA) to service their orders.

Palmer Design & Manufacturing, based in Waihi, Hauraki, New Zealand, was founded in 2011 by Andrew Palmer, who has 25 years of experience in high volume manufacturing and concept design. The company has grown year after year, and we is now one of top 3D printing companies in New Zealand providing 3D printing service providers, with SLA, FDM, and DLP printers.

Its expertise lies in transforming customer concepts into professional working prototypes and then into production.

AddLab is an AM Facility operated by Callaghan Innovation, a government of New Zealand agency. Though not a 3D printing company, this is worth the mention as the lab allows companies to explore new business opportunities and find new solutions to their R&D problems. The lab is equipped with a range of metal and polymer manufacturing processes and provides access to Callaghan Innovation’s wide range of research expertise. In 2019, it produced a monitor bracket for Air New Zealand that reduced weight by 40% compared to the conventionally manufactured part.

Clone 3D Print & Production is an Auckland-based 3D printing service provider. It offers a wide range of service using its 3D printing technologies like Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), Stereolithography (SLA) and Multi Jet Fusion (MJF). Through Clone 3D Print and Production you can fulfil your rapid prototyping, visual models, functional parts and short-run production needs.

3Duke Engineering is an Auckland-based service provider. It is one-person company led by Richard Duke Barnes operated from his workshop home. He operates multiple high-end desktop 3D printers as opposed to expensive commercial grade printing machines. The desktop printers are capable of servicing a large clientele.

Though this is not a full-scale 3D printing service bureau, it is a problem-solving company that works on limited number of projects at a time and believes in delivering high-quality results for each of its clients.

3DPrint-NZ, short for 3D Print New Zealand, is a 3D printing service provider that delivers country wide. It has a state of the art additive manufacturing centre installed with Trump Precision Machinery Elite P3600 Selective Laser sintering (SLS) 3D printer. With this printer, it is able to deliver superior quality parts in Nylon 12.

3DPrint-NZ hires expert local staff on site to service customer orders, that are printed and couriered via Fedex priority to ensure that customers receive their parts promptly.

Kiwi3D is the official reseller of Creality 3D printers in New Zealand. This means that Kiwi3D also offers customer support and service for these printers in the country. Customers can directly shop printers and materials from their website.

In addition to Creality 3D printers, the company also sells Anycubic 3D printers, FDM filaments, resins and 3D printer components like build surface, nozzles, stepper motors, fans, etc.

Note: This list is based on the popularity of 3D printing companies in the country based on their online presence, ease of online search, metrics as obtained from SEO software, etc.

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