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 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "cite_as": "Nozzle4, https://nozzle4.com/data/",
 "note": "Compiled by Nozzle4 from the sources linked on each row. The facts belong to their sources; the compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0, so use it with a credit and a link.",
 "slug": "shapeways",
 "name": "Shapeways",
 "status": "private",
 "status_label": "Private",
 "segment": "On-demand manufacturing platforms",
 "page": "https://nozzle4.com/companies/shapeways/",
 "listing": null,
 "headquarters": "Eindhoven, Netherlands",
 "founded": 2007,
 "ownership": "WVS International, owned by co-founders and Eindhoven managers",
 "technologies": [
  "SLS",
  "MJF",
  "MJP",
  "metal SLM",
  "CNC machining"
 ],
 "description": "Online 3D printing service started in 2007 as a Philips spin-off. Went public by SPAC in 2021, filed for Chapter 7 in 2024, and was relaunched the same year by two of its co-founders and the team running its Eindhoven factory.",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-06",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "2007",
   "title": "Founded inside Royal Philips in Eindhoven",
   "detail": "By Robert Schouwenburg, Marleen Vogelaar and Peter Weijmarshausen.",
   "source": "https://support.shapeways.com/hc/en-nl/articles/17373414739228-Short-history-of-Shapeways"
  },
  {
   "date": "Dec 2010",
   "title": "Moves its headquarters to New York",
   "detail": "Four months after raising its first 5 million dollars.",
   "source": "https://support.shapeways.com/hc/en-nl/articles/17373414739228-Short-history-of-Shapeways"
  },
  {
   "date": "Sep 2021",
   "title": "Lists on the NYSE through a SPAC",
   "detail": "Completed its merger with Galileo Acquisition Corp on 29 September 2021 and began trading as SHPW the next day.",
   "source": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210929005866/en/Shapeways-Announces-Completion-of-Merger-with-Galileo-Acquisition-Corp."
  },
  {
   "date": "Jul 2024",
   "title": "Files for Chapter 7 and stops operating",
   "detail": "Shapeways Holdings filed on 2 July 2024, less than three years after listing.",
   "source": "https://3dprint.com/311136/shapeways-executives-resign-as-3d-printing-service-files-for-bankruptcy/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jul 2024",
   "title": "Eindhoven operation bought by its managers",
   "detail": "Manuevo, a subsidiary of WVS International, bought the assets of Shapeways BV and kept the factory running.",
   "source": "https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/shapeways-relaunched-in-europe-as-manuevo-following-asset-acquisition-232193/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Nov 2024",
   "title": "Co-founders buy back the brand",
   "detail": "WVS International, owned by the Eindhoven managers and co-founders Marleen Vogelaar and Robert Schouwenburg, bought the name, website and remaining assets from the US trustee.",
   "source": "https://www.shapeways.com/presscorner/shapeways-comes-home-to-trusted-management-and-founding-visionaries"
  },
  {
   "date": "Dec 2024",
   "title": "Acquires majority stake in Thangs",
   "detail": "On 18 December 2024 Shapeways announced it had acquired a majority stake in Thangs, the 3D file sharing and discovery platform, as the second step of the relaunch plan put together by the new management team; terms were not disclosed.",
   "source": "https://www.shapeways.com/presscorner"
  },
  {
   "date": "Apr 2025",
   "title": "Announces move out of its canal-side Eindhoven factory",
   "detail": "On 3 April 2025 Shapeways said it would relocate its Netherlands factory, which had sat in central Eindhoven for over a decade and had been used to scale up its global SLS, MJF and MJP production, certification and finishing capacity.",
   "source": "https://www.shapeways.com/blog/shapeways-netherlands-factory-relocation"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jun 2025",
   "title": "Signs lease on former Philips precision factory for new Eindhoven site",
   "detail": "Shapeways signed a long-term lease for Hal 4 of the historic TX machine factory on Strijp-T in Eindhoven, a nearly 300-metre industrial hall built in 1957 for Philips precision production such as X-ray and television equipment, to house its new production and office facility.",
   "source": "https://www.shapeways.com/blog/shapeways-new-european-facility-eindhoven-tx-building"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jun 2026",
   "title": "Shapeways launches injection molding to expand manufacturing services",
   "detail": "The company expands its manufacturing offering beyond additive processes and CNC machining by launching commercial injection molding services.",
   "source": "https://www.shapeways.com/blog/scaling-your-production-shapeways-now-offers-injection-molding/"
  }
 ]
}