Bay Space lighting firm Gantri, which makes a speciality of 3D printed lamps, has launched a brand new product improvement platform that may make it simpler for manufacturers and designers to carry their lighting merchandise to market. The self-serve platform, referred to as Gantri Made, will assist designers at each step of the product improvement and manufacturing course of, leveraging Gantri’s specialty know-how in lighting design, prototyping, digital manufacturing, scaling and logistics.
Gantri launched the brand new platform throughout NYXxDesign 2025 together with three new lighting collections from manufacturers Rarify, RAD and Haworth, every of which was developed utilizing Gantri Made. These lamps showcase how homeware manufacturers of any measurement and impartial designers can carry new lighting merchandise to market way more effectively than utilizing conventional product improvement pathways. In keeping with Gantri, its new platform can carry UL-certified lighting fixtures to market in below three months, a course of which might in any other case take as much as 18 months utilizing typical workflows and manufacturing processes.
Gantri Made can be extra value accessible, requiring an funding within the vary of $10,000 (down from six figures) due to fast prototyping, minimized stock prices, the elimination of MOQs, tooling and extra. As the corporate says, this extra versatile strategy to product improvement and manufacturing—enabled by digital manufacturing processes akin to 3D printing—lowers the danger of bringing a brand new product to market and opens up potentialities for brand new and progressive designs.
For designers concerned about working with Gantri Made, the platform offers entry to the Gantri Design System, which features a full vary of Gantri’s library of supplies and parts in addition to a platform for realizing CAD designs. From there, designs could be prototyped and tweaked till a closing design is reached. At that time, Gantri Made presents built-in UL certification, Shopify or backend integrations, order fulfilment dealing with and customized packaging for the merchandise.
When a buyer purchases a designer’s lamp, the product is made to order at Gantri’s digital manufacturing facility in San Leandro, California. Merchandise are made utilizing Gantri Plant Polymers, a sequence of plastics derived from non-GMO sugarcane, together with an opaque mix engineered to resist excessive temperatures and a translucent mix with light-diffusive particles. Merchandise may also be completed with a water-based paint that imparts a clean, tender contact. Completed lighting merchandise are in the end packaged and shipped from Gantri’s facility on to the shopper, leading to extra localized manufacturing.
“Gantri Made is step one in bringing our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for product manufacturing to life,” commented Ian Yang, Founding father of Gantri. “Sustainable options and nice design have been on the forefront of our mission for the reason that starting. We’re excited to ask designers at each stage—from large-scale manufacturers to up and coming, impartial skills—into our world with Gantri Made, providing them a transparent, assured path to a extra sustainable and provoking future.”
The three first product strains created via Gantri’s new platform have been launched in partnership with manufacturers Rarify, RAD and Haworth. Rarify, a designer-led supply for furnishings and lighting, created Dice One, a modular lamp housed in a cubiform body made from classic and new parts from USM Haller. RAD, a lighting analysis and design agency, has launched the Little Dot Desk Lamp, a singular perforated lamp impressed by the architectural model of Jean Prouvé. Lastly, furnishings retailer Haworth has launched a three-piece assortment designed in collaboration with the women-owned design studio PROWL. The model’s three lamps, Rae, Luna and Beam, are 3D printed and obtainable in quite a lot of colorways.
