[p2p-research] Fwd: News: Ponoko launches in the EU

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Derek Elley | Ponoko <derek.elley at ponoko.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Subject: News: Ponoko launches in the EU
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


Hi there Michel,

FYI ...

Our online marketplace has connected creators and buyers of product designs
to make over 40,000 user generated designs since we launched at TC40.

Today this marketplace now connects these creators and buyers with digital
making services in the EU, so products can travel as digital designs to EU
points of production/consumption.

If you haven't checked us out in a while, there's been some developments
... www.ponoko.com

Let me know if you'd like more info.

All the best, Derek



MEDIA RELEASE

February 2, 2010

*World’s easiest making system now available in the EU*
Ponoko has partnered with German-based fabber Formulor to open a making hub
in Berlin. It means EU-based creators using the Ponoko online making system
can now choose to have their products made in Berlin – paying just a
fraction of the shipping costs which has made ordering products from
Ponoko’s US and Pacific-based making hubs prohibitive.

The development also opens up the European market for creators around the
world. Items can now be produced in the EU and shipped locally, reducing the
cost – and environmental impact – of long-distance shipping to the EU.

Ponoko CEO David ten Have says the Berlin hub is a departure from the
existing making hubs in San Francisco, California and Wellington, New
Zealand which are owned and operated by Ponoko.

“It provides a glimpse into what we see as the future of Ponoko,” he says.
“Over time we see our role expanding to be about connecting creators,
digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers of goods rather than
simply providing manufacturing services ourselves.”

“So just like eBay provides the marketplace for buyers and sellers to
engage, Ponoko provides the world’s first marketplace for buyers and sellers
of product designs – and now digital making services.”

The benefit of Ponoko’s online making system for fabricators like Formulor
extends beyond accessing pre-paid making jobs from Ponoko’s 25,000 users.

“Our automated online quoting system puts an end to manual quoting on a job
by job basis,” says Ponoko strategist Derek Elley.  “It also means
standardized design file formats and automated job status alerts resulting
in a much more streamlined and profitable making and customer service
process.”

Ponoko is working with other digital making service providers to add more
making hubs around the world. “It’s about making it easier to get things
made, no matter where you, or your customers, are in the world,” Mr ten Have
says.

ENDS

For more information contact:

Derek Elley
Ponoko
+64 21 88 66 81
derek.elley at ponoko.com

Stefan Canditt
Formulor
+49 177 313 5492
stefan.canditt at formulor.de

About Ponoko
Ponoko, the world’s easiest making system, is an online marketplace for
everyone to make real things. It’s where creators, digital fabricators,
materials suppliers and buyers meet to make almost anything. More than
40,000 user-generated designs have been instantly priced online, made and
delivered since Ponoko was selected to launch at TechCrunch40 in 2007.
Ponoko has reinvented how goods are designed, made and distributed leading
to profiles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BBC News,
Financial Times, The Globe & Mail, Inc. magazine, WIRED magazine, The
International Design Magazine and more. (www.ponoko.com).

About Formulor
Formulor is a team with 12 years’ laser cutting experience, with support
from leading material supplier Modulor. The Modulor name is well known in
Germany – creative professionals have been using them to source materials
for more than 20 years. (www.formulor.de).


Derek Elley
Strategist
+64 21 88 66 81


*Ponoko* – the world's easiest making system
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*USA  *+1 415 335 4471


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