3d printing metal powder
AddUp Deploying 8 Metal 3D Printers to Zeda: A Conversation with CEO Rush LaSelle
In the first post in this series, I gave an overview of some of the operations and automation that will take place at the new 73,000-square-foot facility being launched by…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 1, 2023: Wohlers Report, Metal Materials, & More
The top story of today’s 3D Printing News Briefs: Wohlers Report 2023 has been released! In other business news, Ametek has opened a Customer Center of Excellence. On to materials,…
Metal Binder Jet Battle: GE Introduces Series 3 Binder Jet Metal 3D Printer to the Market
After embarking on Project A.T.L.A.S. over five years ago, GE (NYSE: GE) has finally announced the commercial release of the first printer in its binder jet line, the Series 3….
IMTS 2022: 3D Printing Tungsten Carbide with Hyperion
At the recent IMTS 2022 in Chicago, I had the opportunity to visit the booth for Hyperion Materials & Technologies, a global materials science company that has decades of experience…
6K’s Refractory Metal 3D Printing Powders Enable Space Applications
6K Additive has announced the commercial scale production of refractory metal powders for 3D printing. Refractory metals are a group of metals on the periodic table with the distinct quality…
Solar Race Car Gets Aluminum 3D Printed Roll Cage
3D printing has proven time and again to be a powerful enabling technology for specialty sectors like motor sports. There, it can be leveraged for experimental applications that demonstrate the…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 18, 2021: Business, Materials, & More
We’re filling up the front of today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with plenty of business, as one company celebrates an anniversary and two others welcome new executives to their ranks….
Sandvik & BEAMIT Qualify Super-Duplex Osprey 2507 Metal Powder for 3D Printing
Even though, as SmarTech Analysis has reported, metal additive manufacturing is currently working to recover from the supply chain disruption and manufacturing downturn “brought on (or at least intensified) by…
3D Printing News Briefs: January 21, 2021
In today’s edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re taking a look at some unique projects that were completed using 3D printing. A maker modified a Creality printer to try…
Molyworks Turns Scrap Metal into Metal 3D Printing Powder
Molyworks is one of my favorite 3D printing startups. The company has huge potential with its containerized atomization machine, which convert scrap metal into 3D printing powder. This was underscored…
Altana Acquires TLS Technik and AMT to Make Metal 3D Printing Powder
Following the trend of acquisitions in the 3D printing industry by chemicals and materials companies, Altana AG, the Germany-based specialty chemicals group, has acquired Germany-based TLS Technik, and Aluminium Materials…
SLM Solutions Webinar: “We Want to Give our Customers the Freedom to Innovate”
A new webinar series by 3D metal printer manufacturer SLM Solutions showcases its system’s ability to empower customers to grow in the ever-evolving additive manufacturing (AM) marketplace. For many 3D…
Metal 3D Printing Research: Using the Discrete Element Method to Study Powder Spreading
In the recently published ‘A DEM study of powder spreading in additive layer manufacturing,’ authors Yahia M. Fouda and Andrew E. Bayly performed discrete element method simulations to study additive manufacturing applications using titanium alloy (Ti6AlV4)…
Sandvik and Renishaw Qualifying New 3D Printing Materials for Production Applications
Founded in 1862, Swedish company Sandvik has been investing in metal 3D printing since 2013, working to increase its focus on the technology and grow its presence in the industry….
Equispheres’ Aluminum Alloy Powders Can Be Used in Binder Jet 3D Printing Process
Last summer, Lockheed Martin invested $5 million, under the Industrial Regional Benefits (IRB) and Industrial Technological Benefits (ITB) Policy, in Canadian materials science company Equispheres. This company focuses on engineering and…
Researchers Examine Effects of Gas Chemistry in Laser-based Powder Bed Fusion
In ‘Influence of atmosphere on microstructure and nitrogen content in AISI 316L fabricated by laserbased powder bed fusion,’ the researchers take on the challenge of creating parts via laser‐based powder bed fusion (L-PBF)…
Interview With SmarTech’s Scott Dunham on the Additive Manufacturing Metal Powders Research
For the past five years, Scott Dunham has been preparing the Additive Manufacturing with Metal Powders Report for SmarTech. SmarTech, part-owned by 3DPrint.com, is the only analysis and research firm…
Wisconsin: Zero Barrier Labs is Trying to Make Metal 3D Printing 17 Times Cheaper
While many companies are keenly interested in the advances 3D printing is encouraging today—along with additive manufacturing processes making use of a variety of different metal powders to create strong,…
A3DM Technologies and GPA Innova Advancing Post-Processing of Metal 3D Printed Parts with Unique Process
Vermont-based A3DM Technologies, which has long contributed to multiple commercial 3D printing production processes, and GPA Innova, founded in 2015 in Barcelona, recently entered into a collaborative research and development agreement…
3D Printing News Briefs: February 16, 2019
We’ve got business, events, software, and materials news for you in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. MELD has introduced a new operator training course, and Protolabs is launching a range…
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,…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 24, 2018
Starting out with education and moving on to medical and business news…buckle your seat belts, it’s time for this week’s first edition of 3D Printing News Briefs! Keith Moore, the…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 10, 2018
It’s business news as usual to kick things off in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then we’re moving on to a little medical and metal 3D printing news, followed…
LPW Technology’s Case Study Illustrates Cost-Effectiveness of Reusing Metal 3D Printing Powder
UK-based metal 3D printing powder company LPW Technology is on a mission to add high quality to AM processes with its well-defined powders and services, and increase adoption of metal 3D…
