CART SERVICES RESOURCES ABOUT INVESTORS CONTACT MY ACCOUNT ISO 9001:2008 Certified • ITAR Registered SHARE + Custom prototypes and low-volume production parts in 15 days or less. GET A QUOTE No credit card required. Additive Manufacturing CNC Machining Injection Molding COOL IDEA! AWARD Providing up to $250,000 in manufacturing services for innovative ideas. BLOG A steady feed of manufacturing resources and industry news. LOW-VOLUME PRODUCTION Learn about our low-volume production capabilities beyond prototyping. Proto Labs Services Stay Connected to Proto Labs! Request More Info Read Proto Labs Journal Apply for a Cool Idea! Award Upcoming Trade Shows Customer Feedback Get a Quote Take a Tour Facebook LinkedIn Proto Labs Blog Twitter YouTube Proto Labs Worldwide Proto Labs, Inc., 5540 Pioneer Creek Dr., Maple Plain, MN 55359 USA | 877.479.3680 © Proto Labs 1999–2015 Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy

CART SERVICES RESOURCES ABOUT INVESTORS CONTACT MY ACCOUNT ISO 9001:2008 Certified • ITAR Registered SHARE + "For all we've grown and changed, one thing has stayed the same: We come to work every day excited to play our part in helping our customers bring innovative products to market, faster than anyone in the world." – Larry Lukis Proto Labs Founder About GET A QUOTE Proto Labs was founded as The ProtoMold Company in 1999 by Larry Lukis, a successful entrepreneur and computer geek. Larry previously was co-founder of a successful $100 million company that wanted to design a better printer, and was floored by the time and money it took to get injection-molded parts. His answer was to develop an automated process for producing injection-molded parts in a fraction of the time and cost it had taken before. With a stated mission "to radically reduce the time it takes to get prototype injection-molded plastic parts" and "to make plastic injection molding a practical option for products not requiring large quantities of parts," Protomold was off and running. With a rapidly growing customer base demanding more, we pushed the technology envelope to produce bigger and more complex parts, introduced the Firstcut CNC Machining service, opened up manufacturing facilities in Europe and Asia, and changed the company name to Proto Labs to reflect our growing capabilities. In 2012, we decided to take the company public and became one of the most successful initial public offerings of that year. As the world’s fastest provider of machined and molded parts, we take pride in providing customers real parts really fast. PRESS RELEASES IN THE NEWS CAREERS Firstcut Milling, Plant 1 (US) Firstcut Employee (US) Sales and Customer Service (UK) Proto Labs Services Stay Connected to Proto Labs! Request More Info Read Proto Labs Journal Apply for a Cool Idea! Award Upcoming Trade Shows Customer Feedback Get a Quote Take a Tour Facebook LinkedIn Proto Labs Blog Twitter YouTube Proto Labs Worldwide Proto Labs, Inc., 5540 Pioneer Creek Dr., Maple Plain, MN 55359 USA | 877.479.3680 © Proto Labs 1999–2015 Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy