3D Printing Materials
by Sarah Saunders | May 26, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, 3D Software, Business, Metal 3D Printing, Science & Technology
There’s a lot going on in the 3D printing world this week! In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll cover everything from 3D printed clothing to 3D printing materials and 3D printers themselves. The ShareCloth team is announcing its new software... 
by Michael A. Parker | May 26, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business
This year’s RAPID + TCT was jam packed with new 3D printing technology and was by far the largest 3D printing expo that I’ve personally seen. There was an awful lot to take in. So where to begin? If only there was a rundown highlighting some of the most... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 26, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
In 2015, Monik Shah founded the 3D printing service 3Dwalla in Mumbai, which offers 3D printing and prototyping services to accelerate product development and innovation. The startup, with a tagline of “Prints Beyond Paper,” encourages people to design and... 
by Clare Scott | May 25, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Science & Technology
Is there anyone who isn’t fascinated and delighted by the many shapes of pasta? There may be some people who don’t get excited about pasta, yes, and I do apologize for raving about pasta shapes more than once. I know I’m not the only one, however,... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 25, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Medical 3D Printing, Science & Technology
When it comes to 3D printing in the medical field, it seems like Australia is the place to watch these days. In just a few of many examples, the country is home to what’s touted as the hospital of the future, an Australian woman recently received a 3D printed... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 25, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Exclusive Interviews
It’s okay to admit it: you hate post-processing. It’s easier once you’ve admitted it. It’s easier still if you can virtually eliminate the need for it — or at least that’s one foundational belief at Rize, which emerged from the... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 25, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing
The European Space Agency (ESA) has long been a fan of 3D printing, successfully testing a 3D printed platinum alloy rocket combustion chamber in 2015, announcing on more than one occasion that it planned to use 3D printing to build a human-occupied base on the moon,... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 24, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
In 2016, eco-friendly 3D printing filament manufacturers 3D-Fuel and 3Dom (made up of 3Dom USA and 3Dom Europe) teamed up to form 3DomFuel, still commonly known as 3D-Fuel, in order to mutually expand production capabilities and develop high-quality, eco-friendly 3D... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 24, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Exclusive Interviews, Metal 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing: is this the future? The technology, in many different versions, will have a definite place in the future of manufacturing, and it’s up to the innovators behind the technologies to determine just how soon that future realistically is. When I... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 24, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing, Science & Technology
Scientist Tresa Pollock, the chair of the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), doesn’t work in the extreme conditions of outer space herself, but rather works to discover new materials that can do so. Pollock will soon be... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 22, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Exclusive Interviews, Metal 3D Printing
Italian company Roboze has established a reputation for high-strength 3D printing at the desktop, making 3D printing with materials such as PEEK and PEI more accessible for users around the world as the company has been focusing efforts on expanding its global... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 20, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing
Additive manufacturing company Oxford Performance Materials (OPM), based in Connecticut, is a leader in both high performance additive manufacturing (HPAM) and advanced materials science. Back in 2014, the company used its patented OsteoFab technology to manufacture a... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 19, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, 3D Software, Business, Metal 3D Printing
Happy Friday! In this week’s second edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, Metalysis joins an international alloy technology partnership and CRP USA is exhibiting its WINDFORM 3D printing materials at SOMSA for the first time. DeskArtes, Thor3D, and EOS are all... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 19, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Exclusive Interviews
When a big company makes a big commitment to a big technology, it tends to be big news — and SABIC is taking this literally, as the company showcased some big parts last week at RAPID + TCT in Pittsburgh. Sanjay Mishra, PhD, General Manager, Technology &... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 18, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, 3D Software, Business, Exclusive Interviews, Metal 3D Printing
If all the other kids were jumping off a bridge, would you? If all the rest of the internet was talking about Desktop Metal, would you? The bridge thing, hopefully not, but let’s talk about Desktop Metal. We heard about the company in 2015 when out of nowhere... 
by Joris Peels | May 18, 2017 | 3D Design, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Editorials / Opinions
Adidas has announced that it plans to 3D print 100,000 shoe soles of its Futurecraft 4 shoe by 2018. The German shoe and apparel company is doubling down on its Future Factories initiative where it is reshoring the production of shoes to Germany in highly automated... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 17, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Robotics, Science & Technology
We’ve seen some pretty fascinating 3D printing research in the medical field out of the University of California San Diego over the last couple of years, like a 3D printed blood vessel network and 3D printed liver tissue. But recently, a mechanical engineering... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 16, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Aerospace 3D Printing, Business, Metal 3D Printing
3D printing, investments, and filaments, oh my! In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Cytosurge’s FluidFM 3D printer wins an award at the IDTechEX Show!, while Print the Future is the first, and only, 3D printed furniture company to display at the largest... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 16, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Metal 3D Printing
The trend of hybrid manufacturing has been growing steadily, and manufacturers are interested in machines that combine 3D printing technology with more conventional methods like CNC milling and robotics. The LASIMM (Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 16, 2017 | 3D Printed Art, 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business
There have been many clay 3D printers over the years, from the EXtrace and the LUTUM to the 3D PotterBot and the WASP delta style clay 3D printer. But I bet they don’t all come with their own 3D model library, like the user-friendly, desktop ClayXYZ 3D Clay... 
by Sarah Saunders | May 15, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials
Tennessee 3D printing startup Collider first crossed our radar screen in early 2016, when venture capital firm Asimov Ventures invested in the hardware manufacturer, which promised high 3D printing speed and new materials. The company calls the Business Development... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 15, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Exclusive Interviews, Science & Technology
When it comes to FFF-based 3D printing methods, new machines may come out on a fairly regular basis — many of which work with unique materials incorporating everything from wood to carbon fiber to concrete and stepping away from conventional materials like PLA... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 15, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Exclusive Interviews, Metal 3D Printing
At RAPID + TCT last week in Pittsburgh, the air was thick with announcements of the latest (and greatest?) in 3D printing. For its part, Stratasys hosted its announcements with great fanfare, and I had the opportunity to join the media crowd gathered Monday night for... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 13, 2017 | 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Exclusive Interviews, Metal 3D Printing, Science & Technology
RAPID + TCT kept a steady pace of introductions and announcements this week, as 2017 represents a year of growth across the board. While we hear often from companies developing 3D printers and the materials that go in them, contract manufacturers have kept a lower... 
by Sarah Anderson Goehrke | May 12, 2017 | 3D Printing, 3D Printing Materials, Business, Education, Exclusive Interviews, Science & Technology
As the 3D printing industry continues to grow, a major focus is falling squarely on the stuff that stuff is made from, and global chemical companies with impressive histories are becoming increasingly active in developing new materials for additive manufacturing.... 
by Joris Peels | May 12, 2017 | 3D Printing Materials, Editorials / Opinions, Robotics
Industrial additive manufacturing machines have been used to manufacture at scale for a number of years now. Especially in applications such as dental, surgical guides, hip cups and hearing aids, millions of end use parts have been made. DLP machines from EnvisionTEC,... 
