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DEVCOM Looks at 3D Printed Food Perceptions
Researchers at the U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center have looked at soldiers’ perceptions of 3D printed food. In an article published in the journal Future Foods, Jonathan Blutinger, Alan Wright,…
3DPOD 292: 3D Printer Product Reviews with Alastair Jennings
Alastair Jennings has been reviewing cameras for a very long time. A chance digression led him to review one of the first RepRap 3D printers. Since then, Alastair has reviewed…
Goldilocks’ Flywheel: Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys (RCCAs) & The Race for the Future
Recently, Metalysis, Skyrora, and Thermo-Calc Solutions started to try to commercialize Tanbium. This alloy has been created for use in combustion chambers and rocket nozzles. Tanbium is a Refractory Complex…
Machina Labs Secures $124 Million at a Pivotal Moment for Defense Manufacturing
Machina Labs has raised $124 million in funding. Investors include Woven Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, and Strategic Development Fund (SDF). Machina describes itself as “software-defined production infrastructure,”…
Additive Drives Raises Funding as Electric Motor Makers Look Beyond Rare Earths
Nordic Alpha Partners has invested in Additive Drives. This will help accelerate the company’s mission to develop better 3D printed electric motors. Through making lighter, rare-earth element-free engines, Additive Drives…
Suppressor Resilience: A Billion Dollar AM Market Opportunity
Across the United States, thousands of entrepreneurs are flocking to the suppressor opportunity. Whereas previously suppressors were something for special forces and movies, now they’re in demand with gun enthusiasts,…
Analysis: HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding Buys Second NXG 600E
Nikon SLM Solutions has sold a second NXG 600E to HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding unit. This machine will be used to print in NiAlBr, Nickel Aluminum Bronze. The printer will…
3DPOD 291: AM Services from MRO to End-Users with Bjorn Madsen, Pelagus 3D
Pelagus 3D is a platform that helps large industrial customers digitize, evaluate, qualify, and make MRO components. Working with OEMs, end users, and manufacturing services, they’re a trusted middleman helping…
Multi-Axis Robots Push Silicone 3D Printing Further
In the paper titled “Robot-assisted multi-axis embedded silicone printing for free-form volumetric models,” Nottingham Trent University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Manchester researchers have collaborated…
3DPOD 290: 3D Printing Since 1993 with Rajeev Kulkarni, Axtra3D
Rajeev Kulkarni was an early 3D Systems employee. He would spend 29 years at 3D Systems and was their VP of Corporate Strategy, CPO Printer Products, Manager of their Desktop…
Killer 3D Printing Applications: Factory Automation
Across the globe, factories are using 3D printing to improve operations. Iterative improvements to production lines, automation tools, repairs, additions, custom parts for custom lines, housings for new sensors, and…
Aspect Biosystems Expands Novo Nordisk Partnership, Signaling Broader Pharma Interest
Aspect Biosystems and Novo Nordisk are expanding their partnership. The duo had previously made a deal worth up to $2.6 billion in 2023. Then the deal centered on drug discovery…
AMEXCI Purchases Two New Solukon Units
Swedish 3D printing service AMEXCI already has three Solukon depowdering systems and now will go to five in total. The company is adding two different models, the SFM-AT350 and the…
Zellerfeld To Make Nike Air Max 1000 Black Sabbath
Nike is working with Zellerfeld on the Air Max 1000. This time the shoe is a multicolor model. Previously, at the end of 2024, Zellerfeld unveiled a single-color 3D printed…
Low-Cost LPBF Leader Xact Metal Reports Order Growth is Up 30% Year to Year
Xact Metal is the pioneer in low-cost LPBF. The US-based firm was the first to sell sub $100,000 LPBF machines. Through value engineering, gumption, and a focus on cost, the…
€73 Million Investment Round into SWISSto12
SWISSto12 is on the move. I think that the firm owns one of the most promising and profitable applications for 3D printing, RF components, and it is showing real growth…
Will Desktop Firms Push Shoe 3D Printing Forward?
Recently, Bambu Lab announced that it was working with FORMISM by SCRY on releasing shoes. These six designs will be shared and printable through its Makerworld platform. Using the platform,…
Korean Brand Breezm Launches 3D Printed Eyewear Nationwide in the US
Korean eyewear brand Breezm is launching nationwide in the US. The 3D scanned and printed custom eyewear company, which we reviewed last year, already had a concept store in New York,…
COBRA Golf Releases More 3D Printed Putters
COBRA Golf first used HP‘s BinderJet to make putters in 2020, releasing a line in 2021. The King series putters had 10 models and were made of 316L stainless steel…
3DPOD 289: 3D Printing Concrete with Andreas Gallmetzer, Progress Group
In this episode of the 3DPOD, we sit down with Andreas Gallmetzer, Head of 3D Concrete Printing at Progress Maschinen & Automation AG. Gallmetzer shares his professional journey and offers…
UT Southwestern Medical Center Receives $25 Million ARPA-H Award to 3D Print Livers
UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) was awarded a $25 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to use patient stem cells to 3D print livers. The…
Replique Deepens Work With Alstom
Production and MRO service Replique is deepening its collaboration with transport giant Alstom. Alstom itself is doing great work in additive, working with 3D Spark to save money, printing train…
ASTM International Works with UK MoD on America Makes Project
The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) will work with ASTM International on a $1.1 million project to let it work in closer concert with the US Department of War (DoW)….
Re Mixers 3D Printing Millions of Mixers to Disrupt the Static Mixer Market
Static mixers are everywhere; they’re the nozzles that you use to kit or Purr your bathroom. Factories all over the world, in automotive, consumer electronics, and industry, use millions of…
