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Kraftwurx is a US-Based, Houston based 3D printing marketplace and service, startup company. Users design and upload 3D printable files, and Kraftwurx prints the objects. Users can have objects printed from an advertised 85 materials(REFERENCE), including food-safe ceramics precious metals including gold and platinum and industrial metals such as Titanium and Stainless Steel.

Company
In 2013, Kraftwurx employed 11 people. The companies principal offices are located in Houston, TX with satellite offices in San Fransisco, CA. The Company is Nevada C Corporation, having acquired the assets of both Digital Reality, Inc. and Kraftwurx LLC in 2012 (Reference).

At World Maker Faire 2013, Kraftwurx unveiled Digital Factory - The Namesae software system that is claimed to run Kraftwurx and to be available to other companies (WMF 2013 NY City Reference).

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Nevada in January 2013 Kraftwurx disclosed that the company operates in a distributed manufacturing mode meaning the company produces all merchandise at many facilities located in different areas, countries or regions. (Yahoo News Reference).

History
In September 2013 Kraftwurx CEO Chris Norman was issued US Patent 8,515,826 titled "Made-To-Order Digital Manufacturing Enterprise". The Patent claims priority to a 2007 patent application which in turn claims priority to a 2006 patent application. The patent, is similar to the operational nature of many other marketplaces in the 3D printing space. Kraftwurx claims other patents pending exist (Reference) and has listed a number of patents on their website although they appear to have a non-publication request filed against them as a patent search does not revel any more than the patent numbers. (Reference)

The subject of the patent includes content related to the online, consumer-driven customization of products where the consumer adapts or modifies a base design for a product to purchase and said product is then manufactured by 3D printing.

Kraftwurx Predecessor Digital Reality, Inc. (Acquired) was formed as a Texas C Corporation In March 2006. Digital Reality, Inc. published an online demo for 3D Printing and mass customization (Makezine reference) in 2006. The demo is still visible online today here: and archived from the Way Back Machine (Internet Archive) here:

In 2005 Digital Reality, Inc. submitted an SBIR proposal through the US the Department of Defense (Open Records request) for a product Called Made-To-Order Digital Manufacturing Enterprise (Patent Namesake) embodied in a product called "Digital Factory". The product, appears near launch at http://www.digitalfactory3d.com however not much is known at this time other than Kraftwurx own website states "Powered By Digital Factory" and the you can use Digital Factory to open your own 3D printing website (Reference Dfactory @ kraftwurx).

Company founder Chris Norman