[9][10] On November 27th 2024, WVS International Inc, the parent entity of Manuevo bought the intellectual property including the trademarks of Shapeways.

On December 3rd 2024, WVS International Inc announced that it bought the US trademark and other IP assets and that Shapeways had come home to its Eindhoven and founding team and its fully back up and running again.

[13][14] In 2008 a service was launched that allowed customers to design their own 3-dimensional products through rapid prototyping by sending a CAD-file to the Shapeways website to 3D print.

As of 2012 the scale and possible materials have been further expanded to include sterling silver,[17] acrylic, full color 3D printing and food safe ceramics.

[18] On October 19, 2012 Shapeways opened a new '3-D printing factory' in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and produce millions of consumer-designed products a year.

[23] In 2018, Shapeways announced an agreement with Stratasys to provide entrepreneurs better access to 3D full-color printing using a variety of materials.

[27] In September 2019 Shapeways signed a partnership agreement with ZVerse, CADaaS platform, aiming to solve the problem of digital content creation.

[28] CADaaS platform enables to optimize 3D files that don't meet required standards and even create new 3D models directly within the Shapeways website.

Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will be named[32] Shapeways Holdings, Inc. and is expected to remain listed on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol, SHPW.