Nathaniel Petre

Nathaniel Petre is a design engineer who works predominantly with 'agnostic manufacturing' to find practical solutions focused on the blue economy.

After 3D printing the world's first surfboard made from algae, Nathaniel began using ocean plastic waste as a resource for local, agile manufacturing.

Over the last four years, he's built the largest 3D printer in the Caribbean and then the largest 3D printer in the UK to make fully recycled, race-proven parts.

Nate's projects aim to equip both the community and researchers with the tools to develop a platform for using materials as varied as ocean plastic to bio-fabricated structures to sustain an economy and an ecosystem locally.

Nate has a non-academic engineering background and a college education from an art school in New York City.

July 2022