DigiFabster’s partnership with the 3DExperience Make will expand the number of providers able to offer instant pricing quotes to marketplace visitors. This partnership will allow each marketplace provider to configure its pricing by implementing DigiFabster via an add-in for Solidworks or Catia. When a user submits a model through Marketplace, it will utilize DigiFabster’s technology used by the provider to deliver an instant quote and order option within seconds.

The firm has committed to triple spending on sustainability initiatives to $1.4blm in the four years to 2025 and is working to make their products from more sustainable and circular materials by 2032.

Adding, ‘We receive hundreds of letters from children each year with ideas of how we can be more sustainable. We want them to know we’re listening and trying hard.’

DigiFabster provides quoting automation, e-commerce, and payment solutions to CNC and additive manufacturers globally. DigiFabster allows manufacturing shops to provide a modern buying experience to their customers by providing an instant quote or allowing them to purchase parts 24/7 on their website. DigiFabster offers several flexible implementation options, including an internal-only quoting automation tool or a fully white-labeled e-commerce solution offering multiple levels of pricing visibility. DigiFabster also offers DigiFabster Pay, a payment system specifically designed for CNC and additive manufacturers. Digifabster is designed to be quick to implement and easy to use. A new customer can expect to be up and running after a few hours of configuration. Using their proprietary Price Matching tool, users can generate an accurate pricing algorithm in just minutes. Digifabster has 250+ customers and over 50,000 end users globally.

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The material rPET is being dropped after two years of testing, as despite having shown potential, they have not met LEGO’s ‘strict quality, safety and durability requirements or helped reduce their carbon footprint’.

A white paper on the future of steel highlights ticking climate clock, as geopolitics put the industry in the spotlight.

We are excited to announce a new partnership with Digifabster. This will enable a faster access to our instant quotes on additive manufacturing and CNC projects. DigiFabster is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) organisation that provides cloud-based tools that help manufacturing companies automate quoting, order entry and customer support.

LEGO has stated the rPET LEGO brick prototype is not being progressed as ‘it wouldn’t have helped us reduce carbon emissions’.

They have stated, ‘This is the nature of innovation – especially when it comes to something as complex and ambitious as our sustainable materials programme. Some things will work, others won’t.’

LEGO says it has tested more than 300 different materials. Some have been successful, such as bio-PE which it uses to make botanical elements and accessories.