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Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) are deals between US federal organizations and other entities. The latter group most often includes private companies, as the primary purpose of CRADAs is…

One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need…

Chromatic 3D Materials has inaugurated a test firing site at Camp Ripley in Little Falls, Minnesota. It’s a 210 square kilometer Minnesota National Guard site used for training service members from…

EOS is joining the MAT‑H2 consortium. MAT is an EU-funded group that aims to do research into a hydrogen-led economy. The thinking is that hydrogen will be a clean energy…

We’re covering business and energy news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Würth Additive Group has closed its doors, and BigRep delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. RA Wind received…

Just days after researchers at the California Institute of Technology unveiled a 3D printed design for lithium-ion batteries, another university team has announced a different battery breakthrough using additive manufacturing…

For more than two decades, lithium-ion batteries have powered almost everything around us. They are inside smartphones, laptops, electric vehicles, drones, and even many medical devices. Batteries have improved a…

The Department of Energy‘s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) is part of the US government that manages the US nuclear stockpile, helping to upgrade, improve, and maintain nuclear weapons, and…

In the oil and gas industry, every day of unplanned downtime can translate into significant operational and financial losses. When a critical component is unavailable, operators may wait days or…

The energy industry doesn’t have much room for failure. Components used in power generation often operate under extreme temperatures and pressures, sometimes for decades at a time. That’s one reason…

Mikhail Gladkikh has worked in oil and gas for many years. With this background, we obviously talk about energy market turbulence and the adoption of AM in oil and gas….

For decades, the nuclear industry has quietly experimented with and implemented additive. Bouyed by the likes of ORNL, companies such as Westinghouse have 3D printed components serially. We have an…

In modern agriculture, uptime matters. Irrigation systems need to keep running during key growing periods, and even short interruptions can affect crops and reduce yields. Over the past few years,…

For much of the last decade, many have pushed an unjustifiably optimistic view of global energy consumption, along the lines of, fossil fuels are “on their way out.” Sadly, this…

This can’t be stressed enough: the US needs to secure its supply chains for energy and power generation components. And, while the US needs to prioritize that objective across the…

The Canadian economy may be one of the most difficult to forecast right now. This is largely the result of the fact that the nation is attempting to thread a…

Last year, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a ban on certain components sourced from foreign suppliers, including Chinese firms, used in unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Meanwhile, the FY…

Last year, Autonomous Resource Corporation (ARC) became the surprising owner of Desktop Metal’s (DM’s) assets following the bankruptcy of the one-time additive manufacturing (AM) unicorn, an acquisition that cost ARC…

We’re starting with 3D printing for energy applications in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to military and defense 3D printing. Finally, Nike Sportswear is focusing…

Outside of the defense sector, few industries have been impacted by Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukraine more than nuclear energy. The same appears to already be happening in response to…

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) researchers have used Lithoz ceramics 3D printing to make more efficient hydrogen fuel cells. With a part made from Lithoz Yttria Fully Stabilized Zirconia (8YSZ),…

I’m a big fan of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), in large part because it’s not that much of a departure from how arc welding already works. It’s a technology…

The Aachen-based Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (Fraunhofer ILT) is to research titanium aluminide hydrogen reactors and heat exchangers. The hope is that lightweight, better-performing 3D printed components will make…

Since 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded projects that leverage the high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities of the U.S. national laboratories to optimize manufacturing processes. The High-Performance Computing…