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ROBOZE Buys Dimanex Assets to Build “Physical AI” Platform
Dutch firm Dimanex got its start as an MRO platform for the railways. The company had a contract with the Dutch Army in 2018, and later that year signed one…
MORSAN and LEHVOSS Work on 3D Printing for Food and Beverage
For many years, LEHVOSS has made specialized 3D printing materials such as high-temperature polyamide and high-flow PEEK. Now it has teamed up with MORSAN to develop a 3D printing offering…
Wool 3D Printing Filament from New Zealand (Of Course)
WoolyFil uses wool-based colorants to color filament. Companies Wool Source, which makes pigments from wool, and filament firm KiwiFil partnered to develop pigments with around 92% to 98% bio-based content. In…
Tectonic 3D Takes Over Solvay 3D Printing Materials Portfolio
High-performance 3D printing materials company Tectonic 3D has bought the 3D printing materials portfolio of Solvay. The Syensqo portfolio, including PEEK AM Filament MS NT1, PEEK CF10 LS1, PPSU, NT1 HC,…
The Additive Chicken Coop, Part III: Bananas
A friend of mine, Ed Davis, once pointed out the level of strategic replication in additive. I wasn’t aware of it before and haven’t been able to unsee it since….
A Hilux for the Seas
With the US turning its back on exquisite, expensive military goods in favor of volume manufacturing of less expensive items, new strategies should come to the fore. But attritable $250,000…
SWISSto12 and HPS/LSS Build Unfurling Antenna for Next-Gen Satellite
SWISSto12 is to work with HPS/LSS. High Performance Space Structure Systems and Large Space Structures are two separate firms that work together on large antenna reflectors. The two will work…
Canada Releases 3D Printing Library of Minis for War Games
From Reddit’s 3D printed Minis community, we learned that the government of Canada has released a 3D printing library of military vehicle Minis. Now this may seem to be a…
Phillips Federal Participates in Marine Corps Exercise
Phillips Federal will participate in a Marine Corps exercise that will use several additive manufacturing technologies. The 1st Maintenance Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force (IMEF), will…
Chromatic 3D Materials To Make Rocket Propellant
Chromatic 3D Materials makes cost-effective, tough elastomeric materials. Its process is being used to make industrial parts at scale. Now the film has turned into rocket propellant. The firm is…
Top DAWG & SAWC: $54 Billion Replicator Reborn
The Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG), also called the Defense Autonomous Working Group, may be funded to the tune of $55 billion. Overseen by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, this…
3DPOD 299: 3D Printing in Education with Jesse Roitenberg, Stratasys
Jesse Roitenberg is the Education Director at Stratasys. We go through his 20-year journey in additive, starting in some really pioneering days at Stratasys in sales. Jesse talks about desktop…
The Additive Chicken Coop, Part II: Rescoping
When we previously looked at the Additive Chicken Coop, we saw how selling devices to labs shaped a lot of our industry. Here, we explore other key factors that have…
Amnovis Expands to the US
Belgian firm Amnovis is a scalable partner for orthopedic innovations. From design to production and regulatory, you can rely on them to take your innovation to market. Coupled with deep…
Skuld to Work on DARPA’s Rubble to Rockets (R2R) Program
Skuld will work on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Rubble to Rockets (R2R) Program, which turns scrap metal into missile components. Skuld will help with alloy design, characterization, and…
Surge Fulcrum: From Crafting the Exquisite To Forging Swarms at the Edge
If you are due to meet a member of the US government to pitch some 3D printing scheme or other idea, you’d do well to bring a copy of Freedom…
3D Printed Metal Brackets from LightForce Orthodontics
Align has built a multi-billion-dollar business out of 3D printed thermoforming inserts that are used for silicone clear aligners that gradually align your teeth. That model has been copied by…
VBN Components Used for Cemented Carbide Slurry Pumps
Swedish firm VBN Components has been making high-performance, high-wear additive powders for a number of years now. Usually working with high-carbide-content materials, the company has brought the hardest 3D printing…
LOOP 3D Reveals 3D Printer Designed for Industrial Uptime
LOOP 3D has released the LOOP PRO X+ TURBO Gen2. This version has been improved to meet the needs of manufacturing clients. The printer is meant to be a production unit…
Colibrium Additive Gets $31 Million NAVAIR Contract
Colibrium Additive has been awarded a $31 million contract by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The contract is part of the Additive Manufacturing Capability initiative, focused on qualification and…
The Additive Chicken Coop, Part I: Million Dollar Petri Dishes
After decades of tinkering with our individual technologies, billions were poured into speculative claims and optimism. Now the attention is gone, and sometimes it can seem like we’re surrounded by…
3D Printed Vortek Speedboat Now Available in Dubai
Dubai-based company Innoventive 3D has released the Vortek, a 3D printed speedboat. The same firm previously made the Cyberfin, reportedly from marine waste. The Vortex looks kind of like it…
Bambu Lab’s 3D Printed Drone Add-On Helps Measure Whales from the Sky
Bambu Lab has helped Tandem Ventures develop the WHASER, a 3D printed attachment for a drone that can measure whales. This seems like a nifty tool for researchers. It is…
Holcim, COBOD and PERI Print 12 Unit Social Housing Project in France
Holcim has announced that a 12-unit residential structure, ViliaSprint² in Bezannes, France, was finished in a year. Nice to see that people seem to be properly building structures rather than…
