Amplify is a US-based additive manufacturing company specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of 3D metal-printed orthopedic implants. The technology is moving quickly to hips & knees, spine, extremities and oncology.
I have known Brian McLaughlin for over 10 years now. He’s an expert in the additive manufacturing and is passionate about creating better solutions for the Orthopedic market. I sat down and asked Brian a few questions about his new venture at Amplify.
1 – First, tell us about Amplify and how you founded.
Amplify Additive is a company looking to fill the void in the industry for Additive Manufacturing suppliers. I founded Amplify out of a need I experienced when I was part of an early stage Orthopedic OEM leveraging Additive Manufacturing, specifically Electron Beam Melting by Arcam, now part of GE Additive. At the time, there were only (2) EBM suppliers here in the US and there were reasons I chose not to use them at the time. Therefore, I outsourced EBM manufacturing to Germany with a company that only had (1) Q10 machine. The challenge we faced with this supplier wasn’t that they didn’t have experience, they in fac...
