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3D Printed Titanium Garmin Cycle Mount Allows for Hands-Off Info While Traveling
Today it seems everywhere we turn, titanium is being used in place of conventional materials—and 3D printing is being employed over traditional processes. And as we delve further, printing with…
Researchers Optimize 3D Printing of Titanium Implants Through Experimentation with Powder Thickness & Temperatures
With metal printing beginning to reach a high in the 3D industry and titanium as the up and coming trusty material for manufacturing spanning the gamut from bike frames to…
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…
Mirada Pro and Reynolds Technology Collaborate on Lightweight Titanium 3D Printed Bicycle Frame
As 3D printing technology and the corresponding materials continue to improve and expand on an industrial level, creating functional use-end production parts has become a more viable option for a…
Robot Bike Company Blends 3D Printed Titanium with Carbon Fiber for R160 Mountain Bike Frame
As someone who considers himself to be an avid cyclist, my calves get butterflies whenever I see or hear about 3D printing technology being utilized by a bicycle manufacturer. The effort…
Researchers Mix Titanium and Tantalum Alloys to Improve Stress Absorption of 3D Printed Implants
Alloys made of either titanium or tantalum hold a massive amount of value within the medical industry, particularly when it comes to 3D printing patient-specific implants. Over the past couple…
Materialise and Designer Benjamin Hubert Create the World’s First 3D Printed Consumer Wheelchair
London-based industrial designer Benjamin Hubert and his design company Layer will be debuting the first working prototype of their new 3D printed consumer wheelchair to 2016 Clerkenwell Design Week. The…
Metal 3D Printing and EBM Technology at São Paulo — A Few Questions For: Arcam
With Inside 3D Printing São Paulo taking place just last week, the excitement lingers over everything that was shown at South America’s largest 3D printing event. We were certainly looking forward…
Metal 3D Printing in the Benelux: FMI Instrumed as First Provider of Orthopedic Titanium Implants
As we began to hear more and more about 3D printing with metal, interest began to pique around the world—and in fact, even many novices you speak with today may…
Italian Hospital Begins Using 3D Printed Prosthetic Bone Implants on Cancer Patients
There are more than a hundred different varieties of cancer, and many of them can present themselves in wildly inconsistent ways, at inconsistent times, seemingly at random. A friend who…
Gigi the Macaw is the Proud Recipient of the World’s First 3D Printed Titanium Beak
Over the weekend, I was hanging out with a family member when she told me about her friend’s dog, who recently had to have her leg amputated because of cancer….
Cancer Patient Receives 3D Printed Titanium Vertebrae in History-Making Procedure
Receiving a diagnosis of cancer – any kind of cancer – is hard enough, but imagine being told that your particular type of cancer is going to cause you to…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — February 20
This week’s news is filled with 3D printing investments and collaborations on the business side of things. Becoming 3D has become a Value Added Reseller for Solidscape, and Materialise is…
Bangkok Surgeons Successfully Replace First Metacarpal with 3D Printed Titanium Bone
Those being introduced to 3D printing for the first time often see it as something akin to magic. With the click of a button we can suddenly make items we…
A Blending of Old Ceremony with New Science
Time Honored Traditions Once carried into battle by armor clad warriors, the mace has always held a place of respect. It was one of few weapons able to defeat armored knights….
How, When, Why: A Guide to 3D Printing with Titanium
3D printing with metals has been around for a few years now, but as the technology and software that run 3D printers drop in price, it is starting to be…
3D Printed Titanium Helps Make This Drone Ready to Fight Fires
Apparently it is actually pretty easy to strap a flame thrower to a drone and start lighting stuff on fire, so surely it would be just as easy to make…
3D Printing Titanium Market Gets Boost from RTI International Metals Investment in Norsk Titanium
If you have been around the 3D printing industry much then you probably already know about Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) technology. This process melts wire and then directly deposits the metal…
Beijing University Unveils Enormous 3D Printed Aircraft Frames & More, Created with SLS Technology
We’ve known for quite some time that various aircraft parts have been and continue to be fabricated with the help of additive manufacturing (3D printing). However, this week at a Science…
Ethiopian Man, Shot in the Face, Receives 3D Printed Titanium Mandible Implant
3D printing seems as though it is becoming rather commonplace within hospitals in China as of late. Perhaps it’s the country’s willingness to share these various stories with the media,…
23-Year-Old Girl is Recipient of Large 3D Printed Titanium Skull Implant
Each and every day, we seem to come across yet another story in which 3D printing aids in helping people around the world live better lives. The medical uses of…
Israeli Government & Aerospace Business Consortium Target 3D Printing Titanium Components
A consortium of groups, led by Elbit, Israeli Military Industries, and Orbit, will begin by focusing on exploiting existing printers used to manufacture aerospace parts rather than develop new printers–but…
UK Collaborative Research Agreement TiPOW to Examine Titanium Aerospace AM Materials
One of the hottest areas of research in the additive manufacturing field is metal materials. With focus especially on creating usable parts for industries like aerospace, investment into research is…
Japanese Designers Unveil an Amazing 3D Printed Titanium Bike
We are beginning to go from having a mentality of “What can 3D printing be used for?”, to one of “What can’t 3D printing be used for?”. We have seen…
