Professor Emanuel 'Ely' Sachs, Greg Morris and Dr Carl Deckard will be formally inducted into the TCT Hall of Fame at the 2018 edition of the TCT Awards later this month.
After being selected by the TCT Expert Advisory Board and then voted for by the General Public, Greg Morris is the 2nd person to be inducted into the 2018 Hall of Fame.
After being selected by the TCT Expert Advisory Board and then voted for by the General Public, Professor Ely Sachs becomes the first 2018 inductee to the TCT Hall of Fame.
As the 2018 TCT Awards looms large, the TCT Magazine editorial team discuss this year's Hall of Fame nominees, with an interesting fact about each to get the ball rolling.
The TCT Group has announced that submissions for the TCT Awards 2018 are now being invited. Winners will be announced on the evening of Wednesday 26th September at the Hilton Metropole, Birmingham, onsite at the NEC.
The final inaugural inductee into the TCT Hall of Fame was Materialise Founder and CEO, Wilfried Vancraen, whose influence on the software and processing side has supplemented much of the hardware innovation for the last 30 years.
The man with the most rightful claim to the title 'Father of 3D Printing' wasn't able to attend the TCT Awards gala but Chuck Hull did send us a short video directly from 3D Systems HQ.
Although Scott Crump invented the process for the majority of desktop extrusion-based 3D printers on the market it was this lecturer from the University of Bath who helped proliferate them with his self-replicating machine project, RepRap.
The second inductee into the TCT Hall of Fame was Dr Hans Langer of EOS, whose work in laser technology has proven an extensive driving factor in powering both metal and polymer 3D Printing.
