OM

When we began developing 3D printing technology, we envisioned a system that would allow for the greatest theoretical limits on print size, material capabilities, resolution, and efficiency possible.

The tools we dreamed of using did not exist, so we became inspired to start creating them ourselves.

Our Company

What We Do

Orange Maker develops advanced additive manufacturing technologies designed to bring 3D printing into true commercial production.

Our work focuses on next-generation printer architectures, materials compatibility, and scalable manufacturing systems that enable high-performance parts to be produced efficiently and reliably.

Through the invention of Heliolithography™, OM has introduced a rotational approach to additive manufacturing that expands the limits of build size, material capability, precision, and throughput.

Our goal is to provide the tools that allow engineers, manufacturers, and designers to produce complex parts at scale using additive manufacturing.

Company Overview

A New Architecture for Additive Manufacturing

Orange Maker (OM) is an advanced manufacturing technology company focused on enabling the next generation of scalable additive production.

From the beginning, our goal has been simple but ambitious: to develop a 3D printing architecture capable of reaching the true theoretical limits of additive manufacturing in scale, resolution, material capability, and production efficiency.

Rather than adapting legacy systems designed for prototyping, we set out to rethink the foundations of how additive manufacturing systems are built.

The result is Heliolithography™ (HL), a rotational 3D printing architecture invented by OM that enables fundamentally new approaches to additive manufacturing.

Our Origins

Orange Maker, “OM” was founded by artists, engineers, and technologists inspired by the transformative potential of digital fabrication.

While early 3D printing technologies demonstrated remarkable promise, the founders believed the field was constrained by legacy system designs that limited scalability, material performance, and manufacturing throughput.

The tools we envisioned simply did not exist, so we began building them.

Over years of research, engineering, and experimentation, led by co-founders, Kurt Dudley and Doug Farber, Orange Maker developed a new additive manufacturing architecture designed from the ground up for production-scale fabrication rather than small-format prototyping.

The Invention of Heliolithography

Heliolithography™ represents a fundamental shift in how additive manufacturing systems can operate.

Rather than relying on traditional layer-by-layer planar printing approaches, OM’s technology introduces a rotational build process inspired by natural growth patterns and geometric principles.

This architecture enables:

• dramatically larger build areas
• new material capabilities including high-viscosity and composite resins
• scalable parallel manufacturing systems
• high precision with industrial throughput

Heliolithography allows additive manufacturing to move beyond laboratory prototypes and toward true commercial production.

Our Mission Today

Today, OM is focused on advancing additive manufacturing from a prototyping tool into a scalable industrial manufacturing platform.

Our work centers on:

• advanced printer architectures
• materials compatibility and composite printing
• scalable manufacturing systems
• user-friendly production software

We collaborate with partners across aerospace, industrial tooling, medical manufacturing, and advanced materials to deploy next-generation additive manufacturing capabilities.

Enabling the Next Era of Manufacturing

3D printing was originally invented in the late 1980s. For decades, the field evolved slowly due to foundational patents and hardware limitations that constrained experimentation and new system designs.

As those early patents expired, a new era of innovation emerged across the global additive manufacturing community.

OM was founded in that moment of technological openness, with the belief that additive manufacturing could evolve far beyond its original architecture.

Our mission is to help realize that potential by building technologies that unlock the full power of digital manufacturing.

Looking Forward

The future of manufacturing will combine digital design, advanced materials, and scalable additive production.

OM “Orange Maker” is building the platform technologies that will help enable that future.

Applications

Aerospace

Architecture

Automotive

Biotech

Commercial Products

Defense

Dental

Education

Entertainment

Fashion

Medical

Manufacturing

Connect With Us

Orange Maker supports a highly collaborative culture in the 3D printing community. We want to connect with you if you're passionate about the future of 3D Printing technology.