In business since 1969, C&A Tool Engineering Inc. is a contract manufacturer of engineered components. The company makes implants, instrumentation and tools for the medical, aeronautical, defense, transportation and other industries at its 700,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Churubusco, IN.

BROOKLYN, NY—MakerBot, a manufacturer of desktop 3D printers, will hold a job fair here March 15 to fill more than 50 job openings, including at least 10 engineering and production positions.

The facility was created by Lipson in 2001 to develop robots that “create and are creative. We explore novel autonomous systems that can design and make other machines automatically,” he points out.

BROOKLYN, NY—MakerBot and Nokia have created a free, downloadable file that enables consumers to create custom cases for their cell phones using a 3D printer.

Additive manufacturing is one of the hottest technologies to come along in the last 50 years.

NEW YORK—Shapeways has building a new 3D printing facility in Long Island City. The facility will employ some 50 people and have the capacity to print 3 million to five million unique products annually.

MINNEAPOLIS—Stratasys has launched its ninth annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. The contest invites middle-school, high-school and college students worldwide to submit inventive new product designs, redesigns of existing products, or original or redesigned works of art or architecture, for a chance to win scholarships.