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Industrializing 3D printing

Last updated: May 13, 2025

Summary

Signify enables customers to custom-design or tailor their luminaires.

The service saves time, energy, waste in manufacturing, packaging and transportation. 3D printing paves the way for more innovative designs with more complex shapes and colors. The luminaires are available digitally for on-demand production and stored to allow easy modification and adaptation. What’s more, all 3D printed luminaires are recyclable, specifically designed for a Circular Economy.

Problem

Traditionally produced lamps and luminaires are static in their origin, they soon become “unfashionable”, thus having a short lifecycle. They can also be difficult to recycle and disassemble unless they have been designed for reuse. Further the material to produce them are likely to be “virgin” materials.

Solution

With 3D-printed luminaires, you can personalize, customize and tweak your luminaire to uniquely fit your needs by selecting the shape, pattern, color and size, lumen output, driver and optics.

The client is given full flexibility when ordering and designing their custom made luminaires

Because the product don’t contain glue, at the end of life they can de disassembles before they are remelted to be used in production of new designs.

Outcome

Signify luminaires have less parts and don’t use glue. Manufactured and assembled locally, a typical finished luminaire (excluding electronics and optics) has a 47% lower carbon footprint than a similar conventionally manufactured metal luminaire. It is 35% lighter, resulting in carbon savings when shipping. At the end of life, the luminaire’s polycarbonate material can be shredded and re-used.

Being able to 3D-print a luminaire the same day it was designed, shrinks the process from development, to production, delivery and installation from what might have been months to a matter of weaks.