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The company was featured in the first edition of The 3D Printing World Guide, on pages 23-24. Browse the full offer, history and legacy.

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Overview

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Etteplan is not just another player in additive manufacturing — the company is a team of problem-solvers, designers, and innovators. With more than 4,000 experts across nearly every industry, Etteplan brings deep domain knowledge to additive manufacturing, ensuring that solutions are not only printable but also impactful in their end use.

The company’s Advanced Manufacturing & Optimization (AMO) team specializes in Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), AM consulting, and training. Etteplan helps companies unlock the potential of 3D printing by:

• Identifying the right applications and pairing them with the appropriate AM technology,
• Overcoming technical and organizational barriers,
• Creating innovations that generate real business value.

What sets Etteplan apart is the strength of its engineering analysis and simulation capabilities. By combining these with AM expertise, the company delivers optimized, validated designs that perform reliably in real-world conditions — an approach it calls simulation-driven design.

Etteplan connects additive manufacturing with the broader engineering ecosystem, ensuring that customers receive solutions that are robust, manufacturable, and tailored to their specific industry.

Legacy

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Founded in 1983 in Finland, Etteplan has grown into a global engineering services company with more than 4,000 experts supporting customers across aerospace, automotive, energy, machinery, and medical technology. Etteplan’s legacy is built on solving complex engineering challenges and applying new technologies to create smarter, more sustainable solutions.

Additive manufacturing became a natural extension of this journey. Etteplan was among the first engineering companies in Northern Europe to establish a dedicated AM team, developing capabilities in Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), simulation-driven optimization, and AM consultation. Over time, Advanced Manufacturing & Optimization (AMO) team has supported customers from feasibility studies to industrialization, while training organizations to adopt AM with confidence.

Today, Etteplan is the leading engineering office with AM know-how in the Nordics, where the expertise lies in bridging technology with industry reality—delivering optimized designs, innovative applications, and strategies that stand up to real-world performance.