If you watched President Obama’s State of the Union speech, you may have seen his veiled reference to 3D printing. Are we so surprised that the technology continues to get hailed for its potential to usher in a manufacturing revolution? Beyond the White House, 3D printing is making news all over the place. In Belgium, for example, Materialise was honored with a prestigious award for its creative and innovative work. In 3D business news, 2D and 3D design leader TPM, Inc. has announced new partnerships with MarkForged and Airwolf 3D, and so have Italy’s Kentstrapper and Lumi Industries. Tinkerine Studios Ltd. is happy to report record sales for the 2015 fiscal year, and LPW Technology has launched a new POWDERFLOW product line to help with powder problems in additive manufacturing.
Obama Alludes to 3D Printing in State of the Union Address
“We’ve launched next-generation manufacturing hubs, and online tools that give an entrepreneur everything he or she needs to start a business in a single day.”
You may also have followed Obama’s efforts to develop more public/private 3D printing and additive manufacturing hubs for economic development. As his time as US President wraps up, one wonders what the future has in store for his administration’s efforts to acknowledge the new technology and apply it to various industrial sectors. 3D printing is now growing more in the consumer desktop printer arena, and that growth may continue regardless of how interested the next US President is in the technology. Whatever else people say about Obama’s presidency, he definitely shined more of a spotlight on 3D printing technologies.
Materialise Wins Prestigious Belgian Design Award
TPM Partners with MarkForged and Airwolf 3D
“Our customers are demanding a more flexible and easy to use 3D printing solution that can be spread throughout an engineering department. These two new desktop solutions allow a distributed 3D printing model whereas multiple smaller printers are being utilized by a group of designers as opposed to one large centralized piece of equipment.”
TPM, Inc. is headquartered in Greenville, SC and works with partners including HP, Canon, SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk, Océ, and others. With more than 3,300 customers each year seeking technology solutions, consulting, training, and implementation services, TPM’s new partnerships promise to further expand the company’s reach while offering customers a more complete 3D design and printing experience.
Kentstrapper and Lumi Industries Announce Partnership
3D Printing Company, Tinkerine, Reports Record Sales in 2015
Eugene Suyu, President and CEO, addresses Tinkerine’s recent success in the education tech sector:
“Our team at Tinkerine is developing new relationships with members of the education community, with a focus on STEAM (Science, Technology, Education, Arts and Mathematics) based education content. In addition to identifying and fostering new relationships, we are receiving new requests for methods to incorporate 3D printing into everyday activities. We are proud to give new users the opportunity to build up a foundation of skillsets in 3D printing, and will continue to develop new content for advancing educational content.”
Tinkerine is Canada’s leading 3D printing company, and now, with this recent fiscal news, it clearly has a firm grip on 3D printing education in Canada and beyond.
LPW Technology Launches New “POWDERFLOW” Product Line
LPW Technology works with the aerospace, automotive, and biomedical industries’ leading companies, and the company is described as “unrivaled” for its ability to provide optimized metal powders to the additive manufacturing industry. This puts the company in an expert position to provide a Total Powder Management solution for working with powder. POWDERFLOW™ is one of these new product lines.
And that’s all of this week’s 3D printing news!