Spencer Loveless, CEO of Merit3D, an additive manufacturing company in Price, Utah poses for a photo seen through the red-tinted door of one of the company’s LCD resin printers, which are a type of 3D printers, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
The town of Price is pictured on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
Justin Slaughter, who used to work as a coal miner, works on the design for parts that will be printed using additive manufacturing techniques at Merit3D in Price on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
Justin Slaughter, who used to work as a coal miner, works on the design for parts that will be printed using additive manufacturing techniques at Merit3D in Price on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
Spencer Loveless, CEO of Merit3D, an additive manufacturing company in Price, poses for a photo beside the company’s LCD resin printers, which are a type of 3D printers, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
Justin Slaughter, a designer at Merit3D in Price, poses for a photo on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Slaughter spent 24 years in the mining industry, including working underground in a coal mine, before working at Merit3D.
Spencer Loveless, CEO of Merit3D, center, talks to Jesse Drumm while he does finishing work on 3D-printed parts the company’s manufacturing facility in Price on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
Parts are printed using additive manufacturing techniques in an LCD resin printer at Merit3D in Price on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
Employees work at Merit3D in Price on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023.
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