3D Printing Materials
Rewriting the Rules for Producing Rubber Parts
For manufacturers like Aerosport Additive, the options for producing rubber parts have long been limited. The Ohio-based service bureau, which creates parts for customers in the aerospace, automotive, military and…
Stratasys Advances Applications with New Materials, Software, and Composite 3D Printers
In the last two months, Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) has qualified its Antero 840CN03 filament for 3D printed aerospace applications, published its first Sustainability Report, announced the latest two members of its…
6K Raises $102M in Series D Round Led by Koch Strategic Platforms
6K has just announced that it has closed the first tranche of its Series D round of financing, for $102 million. In all, the company expects to raise a total…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 11, 2022: Software, Research, & More
We’re starting with an interesting new software function in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as CoreTechnologie’s 4D_Additive can now repair 3D scan data and STL files. Business is next, as…
NASA Copper Alloy Qualified for Use with VELO3D Metal 3D Printers
Velo3D announced that it has qualified GRCop-42, a NASA-developed copper-chromium-niobium alloy, for use with Velo’s Sapphire range of metal 3D printers. Velo3D, a leading additive manufacturing (AM) startup based in…
Biocompatible Materials for 3D Printed Prosthetics in Development from Essentium & Vorum
Industrial 3D printing company Essentium, Inc. is announcing its continued collaboration with Canadian CAD/CAM solutions provider Vorum, which provides end-to-end digital solutions for the global orthotics & prosthetics (O&P) market….
DARPA Tasks Elementum 3D to 3D Print World’s Rarest Metal
Rhenium, the last of the stable elements to be discovered, is one of the scarcest elements in the Earth’s crust. It has the highest melting point of any metal aside…
Japan’s Mojamoja Contest Picks Winning Art from Failed 3D Prints
One person’s trash is someone else’s art. We’ve heard that before. It’s the basis of an entire artistic genre that began in the 1950s with experimental artwork made from scrap…
First Ever 3D Printed Ceramic Piston Made for Chaos Ultracar
XJet has announced that it produced the world’s first 3D printed car engine piston made entirely with ceramics. Developed by Spyros Panopoulos Automotive (SPA) for its Chaos Ultracar, the part…
The Digital Textile Tech Behind Kornit’s Sustainable Fashion
I recently traveled to Israel to attend Kornit Fashion Week Tel Aviv 2022 and see Kornit Digital (NASDAQ: KRNT) introduce its Atlas MAX Poly and Apollo solutions for digital, sustainable fashion. The…
Ceramic 3D Printing Capabilities Expand with New Admatec Debinding and Sintering Equipment
Admatec has steadily been increasing its 3D printing capabilities, taking its slurry-based digital light processing (DLP) process further. First it expanded from resins loaded with ceramic particles to those loaded…
Electroninks to Make Particle-Free Metal Inks Available for Electronics Production
Austin-based 3D-printing materials company Electroninks has announced that it will be making its proprietary line of metal organic decomposition (MOD) inks available to customers at production scale. The company, which…
Copper 3D Printing with Blue Lasers Under Development by Essentium and NUBURU
Coming off of a rough patch after the collapse of its merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp., Essentium Inc is continuing to pursue innovative 3D…
F1 Champ Fernando Alonso Debuts 3D Printed E-Bike by Arevo
Carbon fiber 3D printing firm Arevo continues to drive its presence in the cycling world, this time taking on two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso. Alonso’s lifestyle brand Kimoa has…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 30, 2022: Business, Medical, & More
We’re starting with business in 3D Printing News Briefs today, as Aconity3D will be distributing metal AM powders by Equispheres and Photocentric has partnered up with umati. Moving on, the…
BASF Venture Replique Establishes 3D Printing Materials Network
Replique, part of the BASF venture builder, is establishing a 3D printing materials network to advance the production of 3D printed parts. This partner network of authorized material vendors is…
On the Ground with XJet’s New CEO: Ceramics & Metal 3D Printing Growth On Display
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the pleasure of visiting the headquarters of metal and ceramics 3D printing provider XJet in Rehovot Science Park. My visit came about…
CIA’s In-Q-Tel Invests in Fortify’s Composite 3D Printing
Fortify, manufacturer of the FLUX series of composite digital light processing (DLP) printers, just made two big announcements that bode well for the company’s future. First off, Fortify will be…
Arburg Introduces PEEK 3D Printing and In-Process Monitoring at RAPID + TCT
RAPD+TCT 2022 is just around the corner and among the attendees is Arburg is ready to show off advances made to its Arburg Plastic Freeforming (APF) technology. At the event,…
Kornit Showcases the Future of Sustainable Digital Fashion, 3D and Otherwise
Fashion is one of the world’s most polluted industries, as Ronen Samuel, CEO of Kornit Digital (NASDAQ: KRNT), said at Kornit Fashion Week Tel Aviv 2022. I was lucky enough…
Finnish R&D Institute to Create Database of Metal 3D Printing Materials
DIMECC Ltd. is a Finnish organization dedicated to R&D founded in 2008 and is owned by almost 70 academic and industrial entities. Think of it as a Finnish version of…
Epson to Recycle Metal Scrap into Metal 3D Printing Powders
Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, “Epson”) makes everything from watch movements to desktop printers. Given its precision and printing expertise it has long been speculated that the company would enter the…
Saint-Gobain & More Display 3D Printed Construction at Dutch Sustainability Expo
It’s a green city of the future at the Floriade Expo 2022. This large-scale world horticulture exhibition, which takes place once every ten years in the Netherlands, sets the stage…
Metal 3D Printing Powder Process from 6K Emits Less CO2 by up to 92 Percent
Massachusetts-based 6K has promoted the environmentally friendly nature of its metal production process, UniMelt. Now, the startup is backing up its claims with hard data. The results of an independent…
