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Vinmec Performs Pediatric Total Femoral Replacement in Vietnam Using Personalized Implant
Vietnamese hospital network Vinmec has completed a Total Femoral Replacement surgery on a pediatric patient. Using a 3D printed personalized implant, the eight-year-old patient’s osteosarcoma was treated. The modular implant…
3DPOD 259: AM at Stratasys with Rich Garrity, Chief Business Unit Officer
Rich Garrity is the Chief Business Officer of Stratasys. Rich shares Stratasys´ vision and future with us. We talk about machines, applications, clients, and the market in general. What technologies…
Teen Developed Desktop 3D Printing Extruder
Inexpensive desktop 3D printing extrusion has always been an impactful potential ally to 3D Printing users. Filabot and 3Devo have been trying to make this a reality for years, with…
Stratasys & Automation Intelligence Open North American Tooling Center in Flint
Stratasys has opened the North American Stratasys Tooling Center (NASTC) in Flint, Michigan, together with automation integrator and software firm Automation Intelligence. Stratasys wants the new center to help reduce…
MetalWorm Sells WAAM Systems to Research Institutes in Brazil and Malaysia
Turkish WAAM firm MetalWorm has sold a system in Malaysia and another in Brazil. This is an excellent example of a few emerging trends in additive. Firstly, WAAM was experimented…
Rocket Lab and Nikon SLM Solutions Sign MoU for New Large Metal 3D Printing Systems
Nikon SLM Solutions has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rocket Lab. The aerospace manufacturing firm wishes to reserve two new “ultra-large format metal additive manufacturing platforms.” This is…
Progress Group Innovates in Large-Format Binder Jet 3D Printed Construction
There has been a lot of hype in 3D printed construction, but there has been very little innovation. Enrico Dini developed a binder-based process, Contour Crafting did kind of a…
UT Austin Taps Electroninks as Materials Supplier for DARPA AMME Program
Electroninks is one of those companies that could change the way manufacturing works. The Texas-based firm makes conductive inks, and in copper, nickel, gold, platinum, and silver, these inks can…
3DPOD 258: Shapeways, Now and Then, with CEO Marleen Vogelaar
Marleen Vogelaar was Shapeways‘ first CFO and, along with a new management team, rescued Shapeways out of bankruptcy proceedings. She takes us through the drama and effort to rebound the…
COBOD Installs BODXL Construction 3D Printer in Qatar to Build School for Public Works Authority
COBOD International has installed its BODXL, the world’s largest construction 3D printer, in Doha. The massive machine is 50 by 30 by 12 meters and will initially be deployed to 3D…
Is There a 3D Printing Opportunity in Rare Earth Metals?
For the past decade, voices have been heard exclaiming of a crisis in rare earths. Now, with Chinese restrictions on the exports of Rare Earths, a crisis foretold a thousand times…
3D Printing & the Vegan Leather Opportunity
With veganism on the rise, more eco-conscious consumers, and more of a worry about where all the things we consume come from, a lot of firms are taking a hard…
Ukrainian Researchers Partner with NSF, US Navy to Turn Debris Into New 3D Printed Buildings
Ukrainian researchers have started a project to try to turn waste from demolished buildings into new 3D printed ones. This is especially relevant in Ukraine, where tens of thousands of…
IperionX Receives SBIR Phase III Contract for Titanium in Defense Applications
IperionX has obtained a SBIR Phase III Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The potential value of the contract is $99 million, and not surprisingly is focused around “Low-Cost Domestic…
Conflux Technology’s 3D Printed Heat Exchangers On Board the Pagani Utopia
Italian fine car manufacturer Pagani is to work with Conflux Technology, putting its 3D printed heat exchangers on board the Pagani Utopia. The Utopia Roadster starts at over $2 million,…
3DPOD 257: Large Format Polymer AM with Center Street Technologies
Today we’re doing something completely different in not having one guest on the 3DPOD but many. We’re talking one by one to a team of people at Center Street Technologies….
3D Printing 50 Polymer Stand-In Parts for Tokamaks at the PPPL & Elytt Energy
Of all the world’s things, a tokamak is one of the hardest, most complex, expensive and exacting ones to make. These fusion energy devices make plasma, and use magnets to…
3DPOD 256: DLP AM at Visitech with Øyvind Tafjord, CEO
Øyvind Tafjord runs Visitech, a firm that makes the light engines that power a lot of the DLP machines we use in Additive. We talk to Øyvind about light engines,…
Insight Surgery Receives $2.5 Million Investment & FDA Clearance for 3D Printed Guides
UK-based Insight Surgery has received a $2.5 million investment, with the round led by medtech investor Nodenza Venture Partners. Insight has a workflow solution for end-to-end design and printing of…
Polymaker Unveils HT-PLA & HT-PLA-GF Line of 3D Printing Filaments
Today, Polymaker has launched a new line of HT-PLA & HT-PLA-GF filaments. These enhanced PLA versions increase the glass transition temperature of PLA from a normal 60°C to above 130°C….
3DPOD 255: Process Streamlining with Ruben Meuth, 3D Spark
Ruben Meuth worked at Fraunhofer before helping to start 3D Spark, a German startup that helps companies identify, cost, quote, and screen 3D printed parts. There’s a lot going on…
XO Armor’s Custom 3D Printed Orthotics Will Cater to Military & Athletes
Several years ago, the Auburn University Biomechanical Engineering Laboratory (AUBE LAB) spawned XO Armor, which uses 3D printing to help college sports teams heal faster. XO Armor uses desktop Material Extrusion…
Will the Slate Truck Usher in a New Era of 3D Printing Car Customization?
In 2021, we wrote an article about the auto industry perhaps ushering in a new era of coach building. With an electric car putting most of its components in a…
CEAD and Damen Partnering to Develop HDPE 3D Printed Workboat
Dutch 3D printing firm CEAD partnered with Damen Compact Crafts (DCCr), part of the Damen Shipyards Group, to develop a 3D printed HDPE workboat. CEAD makes gantry and robot arm-based…
