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Aerospace Manufacturer CPP Relies on B9Creations 3D Printers for Turbine Part Production
Reflecting the continued evolution of digital light processing (DLP) expert B9Creations, Consolidated Precision Products (CPP), along with its subsidiary Poly6 Technologies, has designated B9 as its Global Additive Manufacturing (AM)…
Honeywell 3D Prints Ceramic Molds for Turbine Blades
Honeywell provides turbine propulsion engines for helicopters, business aircraft, and military trainers, and has been using additive manufacturing at its lab in Phoenix for over 15 years. It now produces…
DOE Announces $30M Funding Opportunity for 3D Printed Wind Turbines
The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced a $30 million funding opportunity for projects involving wind turbines produced with additive manufacturing (AM). Submissions of project proposals are due March…
3D Printing News Briefs, January 4, 2023: Heat Treatment, Microscale 3D Printer, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Amaero International announced a partnership for 3D printing and powder production in Abu Dhabi, and a new heat treatment out of MIT enables the…
Optomec Receives $500K Contract from USAF for Additive Repair of Jet Engine Components
Metal and electronics 3D printing solutions provider Optomec was awarded a $1 million contract from the US Air Force in late 2020 to create and install a high-volume additive repair…
3D Printing & Wind Energy: Refining the Elliptical Savonius Turbine
In the recently published ‘Experimental Study of the Performance of the Elliptical Savonius Turbine and New Design for Blade Shape Using A 3D Printing Technology,’ researchers from Malaysia and Iraq…
Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace: 3D Printing Optimized Low Pressure Turbine Blades
In ‘Preliminary optimization of a hollow low pressure turbine blade,’ Lorenzo Abrusci presents a thesis paper exploring additive manufacturing processes for creating critical industrial components. As materials science has advanced…
Students Learn Digital Manufacturing Through Design and 3D Printing of Turbine Blades
In a paper entitled “Application of Additive Manufacturing in Design & Manufacturing Engineering Education,” a pair of researchers from University College Dublin detail how they implemented a program on digital manufacturing…
Siemens Advancing Additive Manufacturing: Exclusive Interview, Part One – Leveraging Expertise
As additive manufacturing continues to make its way into real-world applications throughout a variety of industry sectors, major multinational corporations are increasingly adopting and developing expertise in the technology. Industrial…
Optomec on the March
Optomec is an American company that has two 3D printing technologies: Aerosol Jet and LENS. Aerosol Jet can be used to 3D print electronics and is being used to 3D…
GE Aviation is Using Additive Manufacturing to Change How Aircraft Engines are Manufactured
While the tiny town of Cameri may not look like one of the most beautiful cities and villages to dot the Italian landscape (even a local business owner said it was…
Siemens Engineers Successfully Test New 3D Printed Gas Turbine Blades, Manufactured at Siemens-Owned Materials Solutions
Back in 2015, German engineering group Siemens formalized a strategic investment package with UK-based Materials Solutions, an additive manufacturing specialist in nickel superalloy components for gas turbines, as well as specialist…
RMRD Tech. & MatterHackers Partner to Provide 50 3D Printed Wind Turbines to Nicaragua
To combat the rising heat of summer–and escalating power bills–I decided to splurge on a new fan for my desk area this past weekend. Although it had been on my…
PhD Student Designs 3D Printable Wind Turbines to Bring Cheap Power to Remote Locations
When most people imagine wind turbines, they think of huge wind farms dominating the landscape with pristine, sleek, white towers, or perhaps instead think about old-fashioned windmills in an idyllic…
HOUSTEX 2015 Student Summit Offers 3D Printed Wind Turbine Challenge for Houston Area High Schoolers
Because Texas is indeed the ‘Heart of Manufacturing,’ that is the theme for this year’s HOUSTEX Student Summit, sponsored by SME, which endeavors to introduce area high school students to the merits…
GE Uses Breakthrough New Electron Gun For 3D Printing – 10X’s More Powerful Than Laser Sintering
Probably one of the leaders in terms of manufacturing end-use components via 3D printing would be General Electric. They seem to be a step or two ahead, of both their…
