Aleph Objects takes growth to third dimension

Loveland-based Aleph Objects Inc. has experienced meteoric growth in the last calendar year.

The company, which manufactures desktop 3-D printers, went from 17 employees to 78 in the past year, and it doesn’t expect that growth to stop anytime soon. Its revenue has jumped 783.8 percent in the past two years, moving from $523,706 in 2012 to $4.6 million in 2014.

The company also is a free-software, Libre innovation and open-source hardware company. The entire industry sprouted from the proliferation of free and open 3-D modeling programs and the general…