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Markforged Begins Shipping Metal X 3D Printer to Customers and Resellers
Every January, CES is a gathering place for companies introducing the newest and coolest technology, as well as for spectators who want to get a first look at that technology. There are always plenty of 3D printing revelations at the show, and one of the biggest at...
Sign Up for Our 3D Printing Innovation Showcase with an Early Bird Special
We’re launching our first ever 3DPrint.com Innovation Showcase June 5-7 online, where you’ll learn industry trends and innovations in 3D printing and additive manufacturing. Our three-day live conference will work just like an in-person conference with live speaker...
Assemblage Art, 3D Printing and R&D Tax Credits
Assemblage is the French word for assembling. Many of today’s artists take a variety of objects and assemble them together to form a masterpiece. Artists and designers can potentially use a 3D printer to produce various objects which could be assembled as well....
3D Printing BioPen Receives Investment from Australian Government
In 2016, researchers at the University of Wollongong partnered with orthopedic surgeons at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne to develop the BioPen, a bioprinting pen that allows surgeons to draw new cartilage directly into a patient’s body during surgery....
Carbon and the "New Future Additive Will Bring": Exclusive Interview
While it’s the applications that draw wide attention to Carbon, and the advanced hardware, software, and materials that keep focus on the California-based company, ultimately any success comes down to one area where Carbon truly shines: its personnel. When I...
Sculpteo Partnering with Fluigent on Horizon 2020-Funded 3D Printing Microfluidics Research Project
The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework is the biggest Research and Innovation program ever launched by the EU. With almost €80 billion of available funding until the year 2020, the program has funded multiple important 3D printing projects, with...
3D Printing of Pizza and R&D Tax Credits
Craving a slice of pizza? Well if not yet, you surely will have a craving by the end of this article. Kevin Drake, who bakes pizza at the University of Indiana’s dining court, says that pizza is American comfort food. Many commercial kitchens, chefs, scientists, and...
CG Bio Receives Approval for 3D Printed Cheekbones
Traditionally, there has always been some risk involved when implanting anything new into the human body, whether it’s an organ transplant, a bone graft or artificial implant. The body’s immune response is designed to reject anything foreign, and that...
Shapeways to Accelerate Expansion in 3D Printing with $30M Series E Funding
As Shapeways continues on its quest to expand in business operations and strategic offerings, the 3D printing platform announces a major step forward today with its $30 million Series E funding round. Three years after its most recent $30M infusion in venture funding,...
3D Hubs Q2 2018 Trend Report Expands Beyond 3D Printing to Digital Manufacturing
The global 3D Hubs network publishes its interesting and useful 3D printing trend reports to offer an inside look at the industry. These extensive industry reports compile data from 6,000 active service providers around the world about the most popular 3D printers,...
Aerospace 3D Printing Pioneers Join Forces as Premium AEROTEC Acquires APWORKS
APWORKS is an expert in metal 3D printing, and has been involved with initiatives and partnerships all over the industry. Until now, APWORKS has been a subsidiary of Airbus, itself a frequent user of 3D printing, but today the company announced that it has been...
Two Dutch Material Companies Release Unique New 3D Printing Filaments
Dutch 3D printing materials manufacturer Formfutura is well known for its many unique materials, which run the gamut from wood and cork to stone and carbon fiber. The company has recently announced the launch of its new filament initiative, the...
Consulting Firm Uses 3D Printer to Make Explosives for US Navy
Naseem Jibrin, Benjamin and Brandon Ennis, and Michael Winn are trying to work out how to create explosives using a commercially available HP 3D printer. But don’t call the FBI, because they are doing this at the behest of the Navy as the representatives of the...
Siemens Advancing Additive Manufacturing: Exclusive Interview, Part Two - Providing Services
Germany-based Siemens has been working with 3D printing in its global operations for some time now, integrating the technology across a variety of its businesses and developing significant familiarity with the disruptive manufacturing process. I recently appreciated...
BASF and Essentium Deliver Super-Strong 3D Printed Prosthetic Socket
The partnership between BASF and Essentium Materials has already yielded some brand new 3D printing materials, and now the two companies are turning their attention toward something even more important: prosthetics. Under Essentium’s subsidiary brand TriFusion...
NAMIC Holds Additive Manufacturing Summit, Continues to Build Singapore's 3D Printing Economy
Singapore has a booming maritime industry, one that has only been enhanced of late by 3D printing. The country has been aggressively pursuing the technology in its marine sector, and behind much of Singapore’s 3D printing activity has been the National Additive...
Filaments.directory Releases Results of 2018 3D Printing Filament Survey
In 2016, Belgium-based 3D printing material platform Filaments.directory released its first global market trend report. This survey was conducted to gain a better understanding of consumers, and their buying habits, in the growing market. Later in 2016,...
3D Printing News Briefs: April 17, 2018
For today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re covering some business news, followed up with material news and stories of 3D printing applications in the medical, aerospace, and defense fields. Norman Noble has added 3D printing capabilities to its workflow...
Hyundai Mobis Opens New Design Model Workshop to Prototype 3D Printed Parts for Cars
Based in South Korea, Hyundai Mobis has been an automotive parts manufacturer and supplier for more than 40 years. A future-thinking company, Hyundai Mobis has just become the first automotive supplier, rather than global automaker, to open a design research facility...
SME Announces Keynote Speakers for RAPID + TCT: 3D Printing in Sports, Aerospace, Medicine, The Future
Nonprofit organization SME, which supports the manufacturing industry, has spent months getting ready for the 2018 RAPID + TCT Conference, which begins this Monday, April 23, in Fort Worth, Texas. We’ve already seen several announcements about exciting new 3D...
Identify3D Partners with SLM Solutions for End-to-End Additive Manufacturing Security
A big concern for anyone in the 3D printing industry is intellectual property security. When you’re working with digital supply chains there are unique risks, but fortunately dedicated companies have arisen with the purpose of securing those supply chains and...
3D Printing Materials Updates: Windform Passes New Tests, 3DVerkstan and add:north Partner Up
CRP Technology is known for its Windform 3D printing materials, a collection of high-performance composite materials with strong thermal and mechanical properties. Windform materials are highly flexible, elastic, and resistant to damage from vibration, deformation,...
SLM Solutions and Swerea Collaborate with Partner Organizations on Metal 3D Printing Project
SLM Solutions is a leading provider of metal additive manufacturing technology, and now it, along with Swedish research company Swerea IVF, is embarking on a new industrial project that will involve 10 companies and research institutions. The first-of-its-kind project...
3D Printing: The New-Age Glue of Adhesive Companies
Individually shaped objects can be created in layers from various materials, for example plastic, metal and ceramics. The manufacturing industry has been using this process, also known as additive manufacturing, for several years to rapidly and cost-effectively...
DSM Helping Dutch Sports Initiative 3D Print Custom Sports Mouthguards On the Spot
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that over 600,000 visits to the emergency room each year in the US are due to sports-related dental injuries, which just makes me cringe…the only potential I ever had for a (semi)sports-related dental...
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