The company’s products are designed to be compatible with a variety of laboratory glassware and equipment. As such, they require flexible production techniques, as customers have broad expectations. The demand for such elements at relatively low volumes has put aquila biolabs in a tricky position. Custom manufacturing of each configuration would be costly and time-consuming. Also tooling for mass production for so many variants would be too large an investment. These challenges led them to search for a 3D printer for their application.