3D Printing
3D Printing News Briefs: November 17, 2018
Continuing with the week’s second edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, or rather formnext 2018 News Briefs, we’ve got more announcements coming from the huge trade fair, which just ended today in Frankfurt. 3D Systems introduced two new 3D printers and a...
Find Your Next Job at 3DPrint.com’s Dedicated 3D Printing Career Board
Are you a fan of 3D printing who dreams of working with the technology for a living? Finding a job in the 3D printing industry may be easier than you think. The technology is becoming a part of nearly every sector of business, including manufacturing, medicine, the...
Sandvik Showcased Customer Use Cases at formnext, Continues to Invest in Metal 3D Printing
Global engineering group Sandvik has been investing in a wide range of 3D printing process technologies for metal components for years, with experience in 3D printing metals such as titanium alloys, tool steels like maraging, stainless, and duplex steels, cemented...
ACEO Introduces New Electrically Conductive Silicone 3D Printing Materials
WACKER‘s silicone brand, ACEO, was developed in 2016, at the same time that the company announced that it had created the first-ever industrial 3D printer for silicones. Since then, ACEO has been steadily progressing in its development of silicone 3D printing...
Sisma Introduces Two New Highly Automated, User-Friendly DLP 3D Printers
Formnext wraps up today, and it’s been a packed four days, with lots of new 3D printers and announcements of collaborations and partnerships that intend to advance additive manufacturing technology. Among the new 3D printers are two from Sisma, an Italian...
Formnext 2018 Review and 26 Key Learnings for Marketing Folks
I think that after a very busy Formnext we can all say that it will be a while before any one of us listens to Kenny G, Coltrane or indeed another saxophone player again. I may have had the jazz drained out of me permanently. Live music and repeating audio at stands...
Formnext 2018: The 13 Key Trends and Developments for the Additive Manufacturing Industry
Formnext was a great show and as always the complaint rang out that there wasn’t really much new information or new product launches. We’re not the automotive industry. People should expect less whiz-bang products but rather more boring stuff. Boring is the name of...
New 3D Printing Safety Enclosure and Filtration System Designed for Ultimaker 3D Printers and XSTRAND
The Ultimate 3D Printing Store (U3DPS), based in Florida, was one of the first resellers in the US to carry engineering-grade XSTRAND 3D printing filament by Owens Corning. This exclusive material is part of the Ultimaker ecosystem, as it can now be used with the...
BeAM and PFW Aerospace Work Together to Qualify 3D Printed Aerospace Component
BeAM was founded in 2012 and is known for its Directed Energy Deposition (DED) technology. In the DED process, focused thermal energy is used to fuse materials by melting them as they are deposited. DED processes are typically less good at fine mechanical parts and...
Hirtenberger’s Hirtisation Technology Brings Speed and Automation to Post-Processing
As 3D printers become more advanced and capable of handling actual series production, there are still challenges that arise, and one of those is the necessity of post-processing. Removing supports and excess powder and smoothing the surface finish of metal 3D printed...
Essentium Formally Launching Fast HSE 3D Printing Platform at formnext
At Rapid + TCT this spring, Essentium first introduced its High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 3D printing platform. Now, this week at formnext 2018, the company, known for its proprietary FlashFuse technology and strength in materials, is formally launching the platform, in...
Roboze and FDM Digital Solutions Now Offering Extreme 3D Printing Services
Roboze and FDM Digital Solutions have now joined forces to create the Xtreme3DParts network. Xtreme3DParts will be a global network of additive manufacturing centers for the on-demand production of parts made from high-performance polymers for what Roboze calls...
Sintratec Unveiling the Modular Sintratec S2 Industrial SLS 3D Printer
Swiss 3D printer developer and manufacturer Sintratec, which has been busily adding resellers around the world in countries like France, Germany, and South Korea this year, is at formnext 2018 in Frankfurt this week, like most of the rest of the 3D printing industry....
BigRep Showcases New Technology with the PRO and EDGE 3D Printers
At formnext this week, large-scale 3D printing company BigRep introduced its latest sizable offerings in the form of two new industrial FFF 3D printers called the BigRep PRO and BigRep EDGE. The next-generation 3D printers will allow designers and engineers to create...
LSS Introduces the Rapid RAPTOR Series of 3D Printers
Laser-Sinter-Service (LSS) has been around since 2002 and is dedicated to the development and manufacturing of laser sintering 3D printers. They used to be the service organization for the venerable DTM SLS Printers that did their duty for decades. This week at...
GE Additive Announcing Partnerships and Demonstrating Digital 3D Printing Workflow Solution at formnext
The second day of formnext 2018 has wrapped up in Frankfurt, but the announcements of new 3D printing hardware, software, materials, and partnerships keep rolling in. GE Additive has already issued more than one announcement from the show floor, and is demonstrating...
BASF, Essentium and Materialise Partner to Accelerate Industrial Additive Manufacturing
For more than a year, BASF and Essentium have been working together to develop advanced 3D printing materials with high mechanical strength, using Essentium’s proprietary FlashFuse technology. The two companies are now extending their strategic partnership to...
Stratasys Demonstrating New Metal 3D Printing Platform for Short-Run Production at formnext
At RAPID + TCT in April, Stratasys introduced its multi-color J735 3D printer; at September’s TCT Show, the company showed off its advanced 3D printed carbon fiber parts. Now, during formnext 2018 this week in Frankfurt, Stratasys is helping to usher in a new...
GE Additive and Vera Announce Partnership to Secure 3D Printing Workflow
GE Additive and data protection company Vera have announced a new partnership centered around a technology integration that secures the entire additive workflow, from design to print. Design engineers can now protect and encrypt their proprietary designs before moving...
3D Printing News Briefs: November 13, 2018
We should really call today’s 3D Printing News Briefs the formnext 2018 Briefs, as announcements from the show are numerous this week. EnvisionTEC, XYZprinting, BASF, and DSM all introduced new 3D printing materials at the event in Frankfurt today, and in the...
AM-Flow Offers Automated Solution for Sorting 3D Printed Parts
At formnext this week, Dutch company AM-Flow is introducing its new Vision Robot, a tool that automatically removes and sorts 3D printed parts. Automation is becoming more and more of a part of additive manufacturing, but where it often stops short, the company points...
MicroMaker3D Team Introduces New Laminated Resin Printing Technology
A New Zealand company has unveiled a technology that it claims allows for the rapid prototyping of high resolution microscale structures. MicroMaker3D, part of innovation agency Callaghan Innovation, is the creator of Laminated Resin Printing (LRP), which it describes...
GE Additive Announced that Concept Laser’s M LINE Factory 3D Printing System Will Be Delivered in Q2 2019
A little over two years ago, GE acquired a 75% stake in metal 3D printing leader Concept Laser. Ever since then, GE Additive has been working to review and redesign the system, software, and design architecture of Concept Laser’s M LINE FACTORY 3D printer so...
HP’s Multi Jet Fusion and Metal Jet 3D Printing Technology Continue to Accelerate
As formnext kicks off in Frankfurt, Germany, several companies are already making big announcements. HP is no exception, blazing into formnext with a series of updates regarding its Jet Fusion 3D printing technology. “HP is accelerating the shift to 3D mass...
Additive Industries Brings MetalFAB1 3D Printing System to New Partnership with Volkswagen
There are a variety of large-scale metal 3D printing systems to choose from nowadays, but one of the earlier companies to offer 3D printing on a massive scale was Additive Industries, which introduced its MetalFAB1 system in 2015. With a build envelope of 420 x 420 x...
