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JPW Industries
JPW Industries is the company behind six familiar workshop names. Its real product is not merely machinery - it is a portfolio designed to keep professional shops cutting, holding, lifting and building long after the purchase.
Vermeer Corporation
Vermeer Corporation is a family-owned Iowa manufacturer that turns tough, dirty, essential work into machines. Founded in 1948 by farmer-inventor Gary Vermeer, the company built the first commercially viable large round hay baler and grew into a global maker of trenchers, horizontal directional drills, vacuum excavators, wood grinders and forage equipment. Now in its third generation of family leadership under CEO Jason Andringa, Vermeer is 'Equipped to Do More' - serving agriculture, construction, underground utilities, recycling and environmental markets from Pella, Iowa across six continents.
Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF)
Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) builds 3D printers that work at a scale most machines can't reach - resolutions down to 2 microns with tolerances of about plus or minus 10 microns. Its microArch printers use a proprietary process called Projection Micro Stereolithography (PuSL) to make tiny, complex parts for medical devices, microfluidics, optics, connectors and semiconductor packaging. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, BMF has placed machines with more than 2,000 customers across roughly 35 countries.
Impossible Objects, Inc.
Impossible Objects is a Northbrook, Illinois manufacturer of industrial 3D printers built around its proprietary CBAM (Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing) process. Instead of melting plastic filament, CBAM stacks long-fiber sheets of carbon fiber or fiberglass, inkjet-prints each layer with a fluid, bonds them with high-performance polymer powders like PEEK and nylon, then compresses and heats the stack into a solid composite part. The result is parts the company says are stronger, more dimensionally accurate, and printed up to 15x faster than competing methods - aimed at aerospace, defense, automotive, and electronics customers that need composite parts at production volume.
Azul 3D, Inc.
Azul 3D is a Skokie, Illinois deep-tech manufacturer that builds large-format, high-speed industrial 3D printers powered by its proprietary High Area Rapid Printing (HARP) technology. Spun out of Northwestern University in 2016, the company uses a flowing layer of non-stick fluorinated oil to carry away heat during continuous stereolithographic printing, which lets its machines produce human-sized polymer parts in hours rather than days. Its flagship LAKE printer targets manufacturers who want to make finished goods at scale instead of one-off prototypes.