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Makerwiz Begins Supplying Canadian-Made 3D Printing Filaments from Materio 3D

RICHMOND HILL, ON March 23, 2017Makerwiz, Canada’s most comprehensive supplier of desktop 3D printing equipment, today announces its partnership with Materio 3D, the first Canadian manufacturer of premium 3D printing filaments to produce their entire product line domestically.

Based in Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Materio3D is a Canadian manufacturer of high-end 3D printing filaments with the mission to provide the 3D printing community with a complete collection of materials that can be used with confidence for prototyping, artistic creations, production of finished goods, or educational projects. The company was founded in 2016 with the association between two business owners engaged in complementary fields: Mr. Pierre Giguère, president of Felix Compounds, Canadian manufacturer of composite materials, and Mr. François Lahey, president of Voxel Factory, a 3D printers and 3D printing materials store in Montreal. Their state-of-the-art extrusion line and testing laboratory are located near Montreal in the South Shore. Production, quality control, testing and packaging all operate from there. Finished products are shipped from their Montreal warehouse nationwide. Materio3D relies on continuous research and development, meticulous quality control, and comprehensive documentation to meet the needs of its clientele. Their vision is to be a leading manufacturer of 3D printing materials globally known for the quality of its products and the excellence of its customer service by 2020.

Makerwiz is a pioneer maker company in Richmond Hill, Canada’s most populous town and part of York Region in the Greater Toronto Area. The company is a leading provider of desktop 3D printing and scanning technology, rapid prototyping service and maker education across Canada. Currently, Makerwiz supplies products from over 20 premium 3D brands (including MakerBot, LulzBot, Printrbot, CraftBot, BEEVERYCREATIVE, ZMorph, Filabot, 3Doodler, DJI and many others) to K-12 schools, colleges and universities, public libraries, makerspaces, businesses and consumers across the country. Becoming official reseller of high-quality 3D printing filaments from Materio3D will allow Makerwiz to provide domestically produced 3D printing materials to the rapidly expanding desktop 3D printing industry in Canada.

“Our new partnership with Materio3D will enable us to provide the highest quality, Made-in-Canada 3D printing materials to educators, makers and manufacturers across Canada, thereby further reducing the already green eco footprint of local manufacturing made possible by 3D printing.” said Dr. Peter Lau, Maker-in-Chief at Makerwiz and Mayor of the 3D Hubs community in Toronto (ranked #8 among cities worldwide in numbers of active 3D printers). “As the variety of materials and the range of applications for additive manufacturing continue to increase at a breakneck pace, locally-sourced innovative materials will help push mainstream adoption of 3D printing in the Canadian marketplace in 2017 and beyond.”

About Makerwiz
Makerwiz is a creative company dedicated to promoting the Maker Movement in Canada by fostering the knowledge and application of emerging creative technologies such as 3D printing, digital fabrication, drone robotics and wearable electronics. The motto of Makerwiz is “Inspiring Boundless Creativity”. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Makerwiz is an active sponsor of the 3D Hubs community in Toronto and a staunch supporter of public makerspaces in the Greater Toronto Area, and a strong supporter of STEAM curricula and maker education.

For more information, contact Makerwiz at 1-855-586-2949 or visit makerwiz.com.

Season’s Greetings from Makerwiz, age 2.0

Dear Friends,

It’s been a wonderful 2016 for Makerwiz, as we expanded from a portfolio of 5 brands to 20 brands, but we couldn’t have done it without you, our loyal patrons and supporters. As we enter into the Christmas season once again, keeping an eye toward all things maker and magical, our staff would like to extend warm wishes to you and yours. Please make the most of the holiday and look forward to enjoying new products, services and training from us in the new year.

Incidentally, on the occasion of Makerwiz’s 2.0 birthday, we have just launched our new web store on Shopify.  For a limited time until December 31, you can wish us a happy birthday while enjoying 5% discount using the coupon code: H2BDMAKRWZ when ordering from our store. Call it early Boxing Day!

Happy Christmas Holiday from the Makerwiz team!

Sincerely,

Dr. Makemake and the Maker Elves

Makerwiz Announces New Partnerships

MARKHAM, ON June 25, 2015 — Makerwiz, a pioneer in desktop 3D printing education, service and equipment distribution in the Greater Toronto Area, today announces its new partnerships with four major players in the digital fabrication industry: 3D Hubs, 3D Systems, Filabot and MakerBot.

Makerwiz is a leading provider of prosumer and consumer 3D printing and scanning technology and services in York Region, a region with over 1.1 million inhabitants immediately north of Toronto, Canada’s largest city. Becoming an authorized dealer of quality products from 3D Systems and MakerBot will allow Makerwiz to help popularize 3D printers and 3D scanners in the GTA and make these products readily available to the STEM educational space in Ontario and across Canada. Partnering with 3D Hubs, Makerwiz is organizing regular 3D printing “meetups” and expanding its rapid prototyping service to assist more hobbyists, product designers and industrial engineers realize their project goals. As a dealer for Filabot, Makerwiz will distribute filament makers that recycle waste plastics into useable 3D printing filaments, thereby encouraging environmental stewardship through enabling green manufacturing processes.

3D Hubs is the world’s largest and fastest growing network of 3D printers with over 18,000 locations in over 140 countries. The company is on a mission to make 3D printing accessible to everyone by unlocking the world’s idle 3D printers, facilitating transactions between 3D printer owners (Hubs) and people that want to make 3D prints. 3D Hubs empowers people to create a new type of product, which is personalized, on-demand and locally produced. Makerwiz is already an experienced “Hub” in the Toronto 3D Hubs community and will assume the responsibility of organizing monthly “meetups” on behalf of 3D Hubs going forward.

3D Systems is a leading provider of 3D printing centric design-to-manufacturing solutions including 3D printers, print materials and cloud sourced on-demand custom parts for professionals and consumers alike in materials including plastics, metals, ceramics and edibles. The company also provides integrated 3D scan-based design, freeform modeling and inspection tools and an integrated 3D planning and printing digital thread for personalized surgery and patient specific medical devices. Its products and services replace and complement traditional methods and reduce the time and cost of designing new products by printing real parts directly from digital input. These solutions are used to rapidly design, create, communicate, prototype or produce functional parts and assemblies, empowering customers to manufacture the future. Makerwiz will distribute the Cube (3rd Generation) 3D Printer, the CubePro 3D Printer, the CubePro Duo 3D Printer, the CubePro Trio 3D Printer and the ProJet 1200 3D Printer, as well as the Sense 3D Scanner, the iSense 3D Scanner, the Touch 3D Stylus, Cubify softwares (Invent, Design and Sculpt) and CubePro PLA and ABS Cartridges, and other 3D Systems 3D printing accessories.

Filabot is the world’s first manufacturer of desktop 3D filament makers. The company ships plastic recycling systems and recycled products to companies all around the world for different applications. The staff at Filabot wants to change how the world uses plastic by making plastic the solution to its own problem it creates. Their goal is to have Filabot be a one-stop shop for start-to-finish, environmentally friendly, 3D printing. Filabot already has a big presence in the 3D printing market but continues to grow rapidly as it expands the horizons in the industry. Makerwiz, currently the only Canadian distributor for Filabot, will provide the Filabot Wee Kit, the Filabot Wee, the Filabot Original, the Filabot Original EX2, and the Filabot Spooler to the Canadian market.

MakerBot is a global leader in the desktop 3D printing industry and was one of the first companies to make 3D printing accessible and affordable. MakerBot now has one of the largest install bases and market shares of the desktop 3D printing industry, with more than 80,000 MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers in the world and a robust MakerBot 3D Ecosystem that combines hardware, software, apps like MakerBot PrintShop and MakerBot Mobile, materials, training, support, consulting, retail stores, partnerships and Thingiverse, the world’s largest online community for 3D printing, in order to make 3D printing easy and accessible for everyone. MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers are used by engineers, architects, designers, educators and consumers to enhance education and transform the design process through Real-Time Prototyping. Makerwiz will distribute the MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer, the MakerBot Replicator Mini Compact 3D Printer, the MakerBot Replicator Z18 3D Printer and the MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D Printer, as well as the MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, MakerBot PLA and ABS Filaments, and other MakerBot 3D printing accessories.

“Our new partnerships with MakerBot, Filabot, 3D Systems and 3D Hubs provide enormous opportunities for us to further expand our expertise and service areas in 3D creative technologies. Having the world’s best players in digital fabrication behind us is crucial acknowledgement of our company’s strong potential in distributing high quality creative technology equipment and supplies to multiple market segments that will experience explosive growth over the next few years.” said Dr. Peter Lau, Maker-in-Chief at Makerwiz. “With substantial expertise in public contract tendering and e-commerce platforms, Makerwiz will initially focus on targeting the STEAM needs of school and library makerspaces, then move on to inspire and address the demands of individual families who yearn for boundless tools to develop their innate creativity.”

About Makerwiz

Makerwiz is a creative company dedicated to promoting the Maker Movement by fostering the knowledge and application of emerging creative technologies such as 3D printing, drone robotics and wearable electronics. The motto of Makerwiz is “Inspiring Boundless Creativity”. Founded in 2014, Makerwiz is an active organizer of the 3D Hubs community in Toronto. Headquartered in Markham (otherwise known as the “High Tech Capital of Canada”), the company is also heavily involved in the creation of two new public makerspaces in York Region. For more information, contact Makerwiz at 1-800-586-2949 or visit makerwiz.com.