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Star Rapid’s blog aims to share our hard earned knowledge on manufacturing and product development. We hope these articles help you to optimize your product design and better understand the world of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, 3D printing and low-volume manufacturing.

Learning From Each Other
Two months have passed and I’m back in Germany. It’s cold here now, although my Chinese colleagues have already started to wear their jackets from one day to the other because the temperature dropped 5°C, from 30°C to 25°C. I’m sitting here with the heater on longing for those mild

Foreigners Flock To China
My goal in China is to combine the best skills of the so-called West, with the hard-working dedication of my Chinese colleagues. Therefore, I intend to put one highly skilled foreigner into each of my key departments. I’m currently in Hong Kong having just picked up a 50-year old American

Myth: Cheap Rubbish From China
David Mantey, from PD&D Magazine, recently sat down with the President and Founder of Star Rapid for a fire side chat. Star Rapid is owned and run by Gordon Styles, a British businessman and engineer. In 1993, Styles began building what became the U.K.’s largest rapid prototyping technology (RPT) company,