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About us

We provide support from the initial concept through to ongoing operations - ensuring that cutting-edge metal 3D printing technology becomes a simple, practical, and cost-effective solution.

Dominik Gerspacher

Head of Marketing & Sales

Andreas Kuster

Co-Founder, CTO

Janek Huschke

Multimedia Content Creator

Corsin Obrist

Lead Software Engineer

Leo Pavlovic

Customer Support Engineer

Tim Moor

Customer Support Engineer

Stephan Steiner

Co-Founder, CEO

Samuel Eberhart

Mechanical Engineer

Florian Sercelj

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Guy Bilgerig

Senior Software Engineer

From research for industry.

a-metal emerged from research conducted at ETH Zurich, inspire AG, and FHNW - with the goal of making industrial metal 3D printing simpler, safer, and accessible to every small and medium-sized enterprise. We develop and build our systems in Zurich and support companies as they get started with their own additive manufacturing.

Market entry

2027

The fully developed series machine is commercially available as CTRL+P.

Pre-series

2025 – 2026

Customer feedback from the pilot program will be incorporated into the further development of the next generation of machines.

Pilot program

2023 – 2024

The technology leaves the laboratory and the first 10 pilot machines find their place in industry.

Proof of Concept

2022

The BRIDGE PoC innovation founding enables technological validation of the concept.

Research

2021

New machine concepts are being developed from thesis at ETH Zurich, inspire AG and FHNW.