EOS CEO MARIE LANGER

EOS CEO MARIE LANGER TALKS SUSTAINABLE AM OUR EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW SERIES CONTINUES WITH MARIE LANGER, NEW CEO OF EOS, ON SUSTAINABILITY AND HER PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRIAL AM LEADER.

TCT: EOS was founded in 1989 by your father Dr Hans Langer. You've been around the technology for most of your life. Do have any early memories of additive manufacturing? Marie Langer: My dad, of course, he's a great storyteller and visionary. My dad was always very customer focused so he brought home a lot of stories about customers [...] also internal topics, but mostly what the technology can do. Of course, we had the small gimmicks […] like the ball in the ball, these kind of things. So, when I was really little, I kind of realized already, okay, that's something special. We had a neighbor who was working in the dental business who actually identified one of the first applications in that area very early on in the '90s. He was living right next to us and yet he was really a pioneer. So that was really interesting for me as well like seeing that even people living next to us [were] using the technology.

TCT: You’ve spoken a lot about sustainability. Can you talk a little bit about how you're addressing that at EOS and the environmental and the social impacts that that may have? ML: What is really important for me is to better communicate the advantages we have in this technology when it comes to conventional manufacturing. So many advancements like new resource efficiencies, lightweight design, longer product life, inventory waste reduction, a lot of things that we can offer with the technology in general. As a first step I want to make everyone more aware of the fact that it can be a green technology and then of course, there are a lot of things we look into either biodegradable materials [or] making sure that we reduce energy waste of our machines. Of course, material waste is a big topic.

TCT: At Formnext last year, you said you didn't think it was that special you're one of the first female CEOs in AM. How do you feel about being seen as a pioneer in that regard? ML: I am of course excited that there were so many positive reactions because of that.

For me, in the end, diversity and being socially aware, showing empathy is very important. Having a specific amount of social intelligence and leadership becomes more and more important in our global world. I definitely want to support every woman who wants to take on a more senior role here but I don't want to stop there because for me, it's more a question of diversity in general, diversity when it comes to culture, when it comes to nationality, when it comes to personality. I have a lot of male friends in my surroundings that are very open, that are great leaders as well. So, for me, it's not only about pushing females now, it's about pushing diversity because I think, in the long run, that is what will make us great.

TCT: The company celebrated a major milestone last year, 30 years in the industry. Looking ahead, can you talk about your ambitions in terms of the business itself, and also technology development? ML: We consider ourselves as a market leader. We want to lead 3D printing

to become a mainstream sustainable

manufacturing process and everything we do in the next year will point directly to this goal. Of course, we look much more into modular designs, we see that applications focused machine development will be getting more and more important also, then comes materials related to that. We're pushing this topic of AM cells or AM factories for dedicated fields of production cases because we see that there is a great demand to develop that together with our customers.

I really believe in our technology and the potential we have here and I want to see it being an established mainstream manufacturing process. I don't know if it will take us 30 years, I hope not, but I'm committed to do whatever it takes to get us there.

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