additive-professionals.com

What It Is

Additive Professionals is the additive manufacturing (3D printing) service brand of the Swiss company Pequitec GmbH, with the website also carrying the Fabb-It brand identity. It targets three customer types—private, commercial, and industrial—offering a one-stop service spanning 3D scanning, digital modeling, product design, and physical printing. The company is based in Rothrist, Switzerland.

Core Features

The website's functions are organized around several main lines:

• 3D scanning services: including professional scanning, Smartphone Scan, and Selfiescan. The smartphone scan is particularly notable—users don't need to install any app or software; they simply record a video on their phone and upload it to receive a high-precision 3D model, delivered in three formats: ZPR, OBJ, and STL.
• 3D printing services: offering online file upload with automatic quoting, a range of material options (with material data sheets and design guides), and delivery time information.
• Product design and construction: covering technical construction, organic Sculpting, and product development.
• B2B solutions: providing value-added services such as "digital warehousing as an alternative to physical inventory," "on-demand production with no investment required," "equipment support," and "in-house production consulting," indicating its attempt to break into enterprise supply chain scenarios.

Pricing

The smartphone scan service has a clearly listed price of €50 per file, with a turnaround of 1–3 business days. Costs for printing and design, however, must be calculated through the online upload quoting system based on material, volume, complexity, and other factors, with no unified, transparent price list available.

Pros & Cons

The advantage lies in its complete service chain, delivering everything from digitization to finished product in an integrated way, while the smartphone scan lowers the barrier to entry for ordinary users; the B2B on-demand production and digital warehousing approach is appealing to small and medium-sized manufacturers. The downsides are that the entire site is in German only, with a low degree of internationalization; scanning unit prices are relatively high; and the nature of physical processing and logistics delivery means it is essentially a regional service provider.

Who It's For

It suits individual makers and SMEs in German-speaking regions (Switzerland, Germany, Austria) with needs for prototyping, custom parts, and product digitization, as well as industrial clients who want to try additive manufacturing without building their own production line.

Access from China

The website itself is directly accessible, but since its core offering is localized physical printing and logistics delivery services, Chinese users can in practice barely take advantage of its full business—only the remote delivery portions of scanning/design are theoretically feasible.