3D Printing Materials
by Sarah Saunders | 3 hours ago | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
Everyone enjoys a good 3D printing contest. A lot of them come from the likes of Pinshape, Stratasys, and NASA, and recently a new challenge was launched from a rather unexpected source – chemical group Solvay, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and known for...
by Clare Scott | 5 hours ago | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
There are a lot of things that can cause a print job to go wrong, but one of the most common issues is moisture getting into filament. PLA in particular is notorious for soaking up moisture from the air and becoming disastrous to print, which is why every time you buy...
by Clare Scott | 9 hours ago | 3D Design, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Sponsored
There’s going to be a lot to see at the TCT Show this week, as 3D printer manufacturers showcase not only their printers themselves but samples of items made on those printers. For some newer companies that only have one or two models, it’s relatively easy...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 22, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Medical 3D Printing, Metal 3D Printing
Welcome to the Friday edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, where we are all business, all the time…except for a little news on 3D printing materials, that is. BASF acquires the Solvay polyamide business, OMNI3D names its new CEO, and AP&C has received an...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 22, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Robotics, Science & Technology
These days, you don’t often see a person standing alone on the side of the highway with their arm out and their thumb up, looking to hitch a ride – by now, we all know the many potential dangers of both offering or accepting a ride. I think Phoebe says it...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 22, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
From cars, yachts, and drones to wheelchairs, bikes, and even small, lifelike heads, 3D printing has been taking the world of competitive racing by storm over the last few years. Ten Kate Racing, the Official Honda World Superbike Team and multiple champion in the...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 21, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), part of the DOE‘s complex of national laboratories and the top laboratory in the US for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment, has been involved with 3D printing technology in the nuclear power...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 21, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Metal 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing company Formalloy, established last January in sunny San Diego, has been keeping very busy. In addition to developing and then showcasing its flagship A222 3D printer, which uses Formalloy’s patented laser metal deposition (LMD) technology, at...
by Clare Scott | Sep 20, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Metal 3D Printing
Developing a new material for 3D printing isn’t easy – especially metal materials. Creating a new metal powder for 3D printing is a complex and delicate process that requires a great deal of knowledge about material properties, how materials react to...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 20, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Medical 3D Printing, Metal 3D Printing
In the winter of 2016, medical device manufacturing company Stryker decided to commit to 3D printing and announced the launch of a 3D printed spinal implant, as well as a planned 3D printing manufacturing facility. Soon after, the company’s Spine division...
by Clare Scott | Sep 20, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Metal 3D Printing
2017 has been a year of expansion for ExOne, particularly in the US, as the company announced its plans to expand its Michigan and Texas production service centers at the beginning of the year. ExOne has been seeing growth for quite a while, with outstanding revenues...
by Joris Peels | Sep 20, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Editorials / Opinions, Popular Stories
Selective Laser Sintering is also called powder bed fusion and SLS. The SLS process sees a bed of polymer powder selectively sintered by a laser. A new layer is applied and this is then also hardened with unsintered powder acting as a support. Dominated by EOS Gmbh,...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 19, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Medical 3D Printing
For the past two years, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, a top research and technology company in the Nordic countries, has been developing new bio-material applications for cellulose-based compounds for 3D printing applications to replace fossil derived raw...
by Clare Scott | Sep 18, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Metal 3D Printing
3D printing is capable of amazing things, and overall it’s considered a safer technology than many other manufacturing methods. It’s not without its risk factors, though – particularly metal 3D printing. Operators of metal 3D printers have to take...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 18, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
3D printer manufacturer EnvisionTEC, which celebrated its 15th anniversary this year, is probably best known for its 3D-Bioplotter machine and its work and specialized 3D printers in the dental and jewelry industries, though its technology has also been put to good...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 15, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Medical 3D Printing, Metal 3D Printing
Just like earlier this week, today’s edition of 3D Printing News Briefs is bringing you the latest business news from the 3D printing world. We’ve got an update on the TU Eindhoven 3D printed bridge, and BIOLIFE4D has appointed its Chief Medical Officer....
by Clare Scott | Sep 15, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Popular Stories, Science & Technology
If you’ve ever seen a glass-blowing demonstration, you’ve probably marveled at what a delicate process it is. The practice is an ancient one, and it’s remained a much-loved art form, even though most glass products are manufactured using machinery...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 14, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Science & Technology
Earlier this summer, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) were working on using a direct ink writing (DIW) process to 3D print silicone metamaterials with shape memory behavior – which technically makes them 4D printed, as the...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 13, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Medical 3D Printing, Science & Technology
3D printed hydrogels have had many different applications in the medical field, from delivering precise doses of medicine and making custom meniscus implants to engineering tissue so that in the future, we can create artificial, transplantable organs. Two years ago, a...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 13, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Science & Technology
Frequently, when we hear about self-folding 3D printable structures, they’re based on origami. But researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have built a self-folding printable device prototype that’s actually...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 12, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, 3D Software, Business, Medical 3D Printing
We’ve got a lot of 3D printing business news for you today in 3D Printing News Briefs – CollPlant has signed an agreement with a US investor, while the Hobs Group receives an additional BGF investment and Robo is raising capital for additional production...
by Bridget Butler Millsaps | Sep 12, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Metal 3D Printing, Science & Technology
3D printing continues to forge ahead via thousands of innovators around the globe. Affecting nearly every industry possible, today we see a wide range of hardware, software, and materials being used as the technology continues to hit the mainstream with its own...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 12, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Medical 3D Printing, Science & Technology
The University of Glasgow received a £2.8 million grant in late 2016 in order to develop 3D printed bone for survivors of landmine blasts, which kill roughly 4,300 people each year. The Find a Better Way foundation, which was set up by football legend Sir Bobby...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 11, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Medical 3D Printing, Science & Technology
I got my first ear cartilage piercing when I was a freshman in high school, and had already removed it before I began my sophomore year – it had gotten infected, and after spending weeks using the alcohol cleaning solution the store had given me to no avail, my...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 8, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, 3D Software, Business, Education, Metal 3D Printing
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re talking about some exciting new centers opening up that specialize in 3D printing technology, an additive manufacturing course and a little medical news, and some interesting 3D printed objects. Thales is creating...
by Sarah Saunders | Sep 8, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Science & Technology
We’ve seen 3D printable biomaterials before, but never any like the ones engineers at Rhode Island-based Brown University have been working on. They have developed a technique to make 3D printed biomaterials that are able to quickly degrade on demand. The...
