3d metal printing
Z3DLAB Signs Joint Venture with Semiconductor Expert HS HI-TECH to Make Z3DFAB Digital AM Production Center
French company Z3DLAB, formed in 2014 and specializing in metal additive manufacturing by SLM, has signed a joint venture with Korean semiconductor expert HS HI-TECH. It’s called Z3DFAB, a new digital additive…
GE’s $1.4 Billion Metal AM Acquisitions Falter as Elliott Management Rejects Terms
Last month, GE made an acquisition announcement that was sure to shake up the additive manufacturing industry, with its $1.4 billion investment proposal to acquire both SLM Solutions and Arcam….
Partnership with PSA Group Brings Together the Automotive Industry and Metal Additive Manufacturing — A Few Questions For: Divergent 3D
Partnerships are a critical ingredient to success in any growing industry — as well as in those industries that are somewhat more established. As we’ve seen illustrated with increasing frequency…
As Australians in Remote Areas Receive Internet, 3D Printing May Offer Progressive Sustainability
When thinking of Australia, many of us visualize a beautiful country filled with the wide expanse of the outback where rugged people and wildlife enjoy the simple life away from…
Colorado: ADAPT 3D Printing Consortium Announces Sinter Print As Newest Member
If the gold rush, the green rush, fourteeners galore, and epic skiing, hiking, camping, and fishing had not already put the rugged state of Colorado on the map long ago,…
UK Business: Innovate 2 Make Merges with Progressive Technology, Creating Manufacturing Powerhouse with Metal 3D Printing & Traditional Processes
Something’s in the air lately for mergers and acquisitions, it would seem, with the 3D printing realm continuing to power up in numerous and surprising ways, growing ever stronger and…
GE Announces $1.4 Billion Investment: Acquisition of Arcam AB and SLM Solutions
Update: Following a rejection of terms in the deal for SLM Solutions, GE ultimately acquired controlling shares in Arcam and Concept Laser. Today’s headline heard ’round the world contains all…
QY Market Research Releases Comprehensive Report: Worldwide 3D Printing of Metals Market 2016
As 3D printing begins to soar in popularity around the world from the desktop to the industrial factory line, most of us are beginning to gain an understanding of what impacts…
Taiwan’s ITRI Looks to Materialise 3D Software to Help Build the Factory of the Future
As 3D printing evolves around the world, it’s somehow very satisfying to see companies from other countries working together, especially when a variety of products are able to perform to their full…
Swanson School of Engineering & Aerotech Partner to Refine Metal Additive Manufacturing with Fast Computational Modeling
3D printing, now available to anyone who is able save up at least a few hundred bucks and enjoy a minor learning curve, has indeed begun to infiltrate the mainstream….
Aluminum Alloys: Researchers Explore the Microstructure-Property Relationship in Metal 3D Printing
I’m always befuddled today by those on the periphery of the 3D printing industry who cry that the sky has fallen, and the technology is over and dead. We see…
GE’s Christine Furstoss: Cohesive 3D Printing Ecosystem Must Exist Before There is a True Manufacturing Revolution
Many are still waiting for the advent of a desktop 3D printer in every home—as ubiquitous as the PC or the kitchen stove—and the common practice of simply fabricating virtually…
Spineart Receives CE Marking for Titanium Lumbar Interbody Systems
Unless you are in the medical field, or have been the recipient of a 3D printed implant, it’s easy to overlook the impacts that 3D technology is having in the…
Researchers Are Able to Dissolve Support Structures in Metal 3D Printing, Offering Great Potential for Future
Dissolvable supports in 3D printing. It’s music to the ears of anyone who works with this technology in any capacity, well aware of the headaches that using supports can involve—and…
Z3DLAB & InssTek Partner for Metal 3D Printing of South Korean Military Jet Parts & Medical Implants
Have you ever wondered what the result would be if you crossed South Korea’s InssTEK with France’s Z3DLAB? Why, that might just be the beginning of a new world in…
RAPID Day 2: Metals, Software, Fashion and More!
The unfortunate thing about trade shows like RAPID 2016 is that no matter how long you stay, it’s impossible to see everything or talk to everyone on the show floor….
RAPID 2016: 3D Systems to Rule with Booths, Exhibits, Hardware Displays, Tours & Talks
News has been flooding in regarding companies from the 3D printing realm who will be attending RAPID 2016 to be held in the Sunshine State—as Orlando plays host to this…
Metal 3D Printing: Israel’s XJet to Showcase NanoParticle Jetting Technology at RAPID 2016
Israel’s XJet, becoming quite well-known for their Inkjet liquid metal 3D printing technology, is a company I suddenly find myself both reading and writing about more often. Currently though, the…
MƎTHESIS: Metal 3D Printing Is Ready for New Applications in the World of End-Use Product Design
The recent MƎTHESIS exhibit on metal 3D printed products (which I organized in collaboration with Autodesk, Lenovo and Laser Metal Fusion 3D printer manufacturer Sisma) for the recent Milan Design Week,…
AMUG: XJet Presenting NanoParticle Jetting Metal 3D Printing Process to Large Crowd
The annual Additive Manufacturing Users Group Conference is in session this week through April 7th in St. Louis. Known more concisely as AMUG, this event has been promised to be bigger…
Additive Industries Announces Adoption of 3DSIM Software Tools for MetalFAB1
Metal 3D printing is the future of manufacturing/the 3D printing industry/life as we know it. By now, it comes as no surprise to hear about the explosion of metal additive…
Bottom and Top Driven 3D Printing Meet as Ultimaker Founder Hands out Additive Industries’ Design Awards
Ultimaker and Additive Industries are two Dutch 3D printing companies that have taken diametrically opposite approaches to the industry. These very different business models have just found a common ground…
Additive Industries Adds New Customers for Its MetalFAB1 Production System
At the fourth edition of its Additive World Conference in Eindhoven, which is starting today, March 23rd, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Additive Industries announced two new beta customers for its…
Metal Additive Manufacturing Set to Make a Splash — A Few Questions For: Spencer Wright
It’s less than a month away now! Inside 3D Printing is coming again to the Big Apple, with the conference set for New York City running April 10-12 and promising…
