Rick Pollack knew running a business, particularly a business making products in the U.S., would be challenging. But he didn't — couldn't — anticipate all the different factors that would disrupt the ...

BEACHWOOD, Ohio — A homegrown company is now looking for a buyer, saying a rollercoaster of tariffs, a pandemic and historically high inflation has been hurting the business. MakerGear, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TJ McCue is Seattle-based and covers tech & productivity tools. Desktop manufacturing is a term that MakerGear.com founder Rick ...

Activity — sales, hiring, customers — abounds for MakerGear, a 5-year-old Beachwood company that expects this year to manufacture and ship at least 1,000 3-D printers to customers in the U.S. and ...

BEACHWOOD, Ohio — Nurse Robin Brunkala, who works with COVID-19 patients at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center, was willing to pay for plastic face shields to keep herself and her coworkers ...

Rick Pollack's 3-D printers are multiplying. At his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, four small 3-D printers he developed run around the clock churning out plastic parts for — that's right — more 3-D ...

BEACHWOOD, OHIO — Activity — sales, hiring, customers — abounds for MakerGear, a 5-year-old Beachwood company that expects this year to manufacture and ship at least 1,000 3-D printers to customers in ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...