Motor Italy Awards 2023: Bio3DPrinting, subsidiary of SolidWorld Group, wins the “Innovation” award thanks to Electrospider

Treviso, November 24, 2023 – SolidWorld Group S.p.A. (ticker S3D), leading company in the digital technology, industrial 3D printing, and photovoltaic panel construction systems sector, and producer of the Electrospider, a bio-printer capable of reproducing human cell tissues, announces that its subsidiary Bio3DPrinting has been awarded the “Motore Italia Toscana Awards 2023 prize – Regional excellence in industry and services” in the “Innovation” category. format in the Motore Italia Toscana Awards 2023 prize – Regional excellence in industry and services. The awards eremony was held on Thursday 23 November 2023 in Florence, at the Cinema Astra, alongside the eighth stage of the 2023 “Motore Italia” award, a initiative of Class Editori dedicated to excellent Small and Medium-sized Enterprises designed to enhance the fundamental role of local SMEs in the economic and social context of the country. The award, that awards companies in the Tuscany region that have achieved excellent results over the last year, was awarded with the following motivation: “For having developed the Electrospider bioprinter, the first in the world capable of printing fabrics and human organs from living cells making an enormous contribution to regenerative surgery”. Electrospider, in fact, is an innovative multi-scale and multi-material 3D bioprinting platform that is capable for the first time of generating 3D cellular constructs having the eterogeneity and complex topology of human tissues. Aurora De Acutis, Chairperson of Bio3DPrinting«We are very proud to have received this important award dedicated to innovative entrepreneurship. It further states the quality of the partnership between research, university and entrepreneurial world to revolutionize the biomedical engineering sector with cutting-edge technology conceived at the University of Pisa, based on research conducted at the university’s E. Piaggio center, and subsequently industrialized in the company. In particular, Electrospider is today the only additive solution in the world which, starting from the patient’s cells, is capable of recreating tissue parts and cellular constructs at the basis of organic structures. A fundamental innovation in supporting cosmetic, pharmacological and oncology research as well as the vaccine and treatment sectorsr».

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SolidWorld Group S.p.A. SolidWorld Group S.p.A. is the parent of a group of 11 companies founded in the early 2000s by engineer Roberto Rizzo. Listed on the Euronext Growth Milan segment, the Group is a leading developer and integrator of the latest and most comprehensive digital 3D software and hardware for manufacturing companies, supporting and accelerating their journey to Industry 4.0. Thanks to SolidWorld, all stages of production – as far as sale and recycling – are integrated using technologies that make the production process faster and more sustainable and efficient. It operates through 14 offices and 3 technology hubs and has over 150 employees and more than 9,000 client enterprises. In 2023, the Group began mass production of Electrospider, a 3D bioprinter capable of reproducing human cell tissues and organs. The acquisition of Valore BF 3d S.r.l. was finalized in 2023, which SolidWorld saw acquire a new client base. In 2023 it completed the transfer of a technology business unit from Formula E S.r.l., a company of the Vismunda S.r.l. Group, a world leader in automation for equipment focusing on the renewable energy sector. The SolidWorld Group reported revenues of Euro 57.7 million in 2022, with a value of production of Euro 60.8 million and EBITDA of Euro 4.1 million. The company has been listed on the Euronext Growth Milan segment of Borsa Italiana since July 6, 2022 (with ticker S3D).

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