Sustainability
3D Printing News Briefs, June 1, 2023: 3D Printed Medication, Medical Center, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting off with business, as Solukon announces new U.S. distribution partners. On to healthcare, Texas A&M University received a five-year NIH grant to…
US and Australia Form Clean Energy Pact as WTO Head Calls for “Reglobalized” Supply Chains
Amidst the G7 summit in Hiroshima last weekend, CNBC interviewed the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, concerning her general outlook on the current state of international…
Jabil Introduces First PLA for Powder Bed 3D Printing
When we last caught up with Luke Rodgers, senior director of R&D at Jabil (NYSE: JBL), the manufacturing solutions provider was in the process of releasing a new material for powder bed…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 20, 2023: 4D Printing, Sustainability, Inclusivity, & More
Starting with space news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, a Kansas City startup is building 3D printed re-entry capsules for on-demand cargo return from space. In research, a 3D…
Vectoflow Probes Prove a Perfect Case for Metal 3D Printing – AMS Focus
In the current phase of additive manufacturing (AM) industrialization, the sector is finding killer apps to see more widespread commercialization of the technology. The use cases being discovered are sometimes…
BASF Forward AM Partners with Arkema to Increase Sustainability
As part of #ProjectZero, Forward AM is reaffirming its commitment of contributing to a world that provides a viable future with enhanced quality of life for everyone and we have…
The Half-Life of Things: Taking on Landfill Culture with 3D Printing
My parents had the same egg timer for my entire youth. It was a little, happy chicken-shaped plastic thing made in Europe. When, after 20 years or so, it broke,…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 6, 2023: 3D Printing Biopolymers & Shoes & Chocolate
We’re kicking things off in News Briefs with material news today, as Fictiv has launched ten new advanced 3D printing materials. Moving on, CLEANR is using the Formlabs Automation Ecosystem…
How 3D Printing Could Help Alleviate the Leather Crisis in Fashion – My Journey 3D Printing a Purse with Stratasys Direct
Have you ever had an idea met with this response: “Oh this is just one of your big, crazy pipedreams”? Or, “This idea is stupid.” Or, “You’ll never be able…
Ricoh Power 3D Prints Power Generators for Sewage Plants
In an exciting development for energy decarbonization, Japanese imaging and electronics company Ricoh has used 3D printing to make compact, light, and efficient power generators. Made in conjunction with Japan’s…
Seurat and Siemens Energy to 3D Print 59 Tons of Metal Parts
In March, the Biden Administration unveiled the $6 billion Industrial Demonstrations Program to decarbonize industrial manufacturing within a broader strategy to shift toward cleaner energy and more resilient supply chains….
PrintFoam CTO David Walker Talks the Market’s First True 3D Printed Foam
One thing you’ll notice if you talk to enough materials scientists is that they’re all passionate. These are people who really care about the things that things are made from….
Additive Manufacturing in Guam – A Path to Economic Diversity for the Island
President Biden released a FY 2024 budget that prioritizes a vision for prosperity, security, and resilience in the Indo-Pacific region. Few understand the impact these values will have on local…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 22, 2023: Sustainability, Coastal Erosion, & More
RadTech has launched a new UV+EB sustainability website…this story kicks off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by metal 3D printing news, as Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing acquired a Sapphire XC…
Distributed Manufacturing Will Help Address America’s Megasite Shortage
Against a global context characterized by endlessly proliferating and often mutually contradictory economic signals, the latest development to reinforce that narrative is a frustratingly straightforward one: geography. According to a…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 15, 2023: Hybrid Manufacturing, 3D Printed Insoles, & More
Kicking off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Eplus3D released a new hybrid manufacturing solution. In materials news, Formlabs has introduced its first flexible SLS 3D printing material. Then it’s on…
Manufacturing USA Institute IACMI Gets DoE Funding Renewal for Advanced Composites Manufacturing
The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) announced that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has renewed the institution’s funding for R&D into the manufacturing of advanced composite materials….
3D Printed Compostable Clay Cup Startup Bags $6.5M in Seed Round
Berlin-based startup GaeaStar has found a solution to single-use plastics. Using a “drink to dust” technology, the business 3D prints clay containers that don’t require recycling. Inspired by 5,000-year-old Indian…
AMGTA Demonstrates CO2 Reduction for 3D Printed Jet Engine Parts in First Independent Study
The Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA) is the first and only organization dedicated to sustainability in 3D printing. Since it was founded in 2019, it has slowly built up…
Biden Admin Announces $72M in Funding for Workforce Training in Clean Energy Advanced Manufacturing
Amid President Biden’s Investing in America campaign, a cross-country tour in which the commander-in-chief is touting his administration’s extensive support for reshoring American manufacturing, the US Department of Energy (DOE)…
Markforged Settles Into Waltham Headquarters, Posts New Job Openings
After reporting record quarterly revenues in 2022 and strong demand for its Digital Forge industrial additive manufacturing platform, Markforged (NYSE: MKFG) moved out of its original offices in Watertown, Massachusetts…
AM Drilldown: Canadian Carbon Credits Could Fuel 3D Printing and More
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled the country’s latest budget, which offers $16.4 billion in tax credits for clean tech manufacturing, clean electricity and hydrogen over the next five years,…
Construction 3D Printing Company Mighty Buildings Opens Factory in Mexico to Scale Climate-Resilient Homes
Mighty Buildings, the Oakland-based additive construction (AC) company, announced that it has opened a new factory in Monterrey, Mexico, to scale up production of its prefabricated, climate-resilient homes. Last October,…
NextFlex Promises $4.4M Funding to Advancing FHE and Electronics 3D Printing
Since its launch in 2015, NextFlex has been behind much of the R&D in the flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) industry in the U.S. This Silicon Valley-based consortium of companies, academic…
