3D printing composites
3D Printing News Briefs, November 9, 2024: Concept Car, Afloat 3D Printing, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with business, as Anisoprint appointed AM industry veteran Tuan TranPham as President of the Americas and APAC. Then we’ll move onto automotive…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: March 24, 2024
We’ve got a very busy week of webinars and events, starting with Global Industrie Paris and a members-only roundtable for AM Coalition. Stratasys will continue its advanced in-person training and…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: March 3, 2024
In this week’s roundup, we have a lot of events taking place, including SPE’s ANTEC 2024, Futurebuild, the AAOP Annual Meeting, JEC World, and more. Stratasys continues its training courses,…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 21, 2023: 3D Printed Molds, Bridges, & More
We’ll kick things off in 3D Printing News Briefs with business, and then move on to critical spare parts for the battleground, an analysis of 3D printed vs. wood molds,…
Aussie RVs Receive 3D Printing Boost from $1.16M Government Grant
When air travel took a backseat during the pandemic, road trips in RVs surged in popularity. With international travel plummeting by a staggering 73% in 2020, domestic adventures on four…
India Bound: Airtech’s 2023 New Facility to Grow Composites in the Region
Airtech Advanced Materials announced the opening of a new location in Goa, India, in July 2023. The upcoming expansion is set to accelerate regional customer response times and personalized service,…
Anisoprint Unveils New Office At Shanghai 3D Printing Center
Shanghai’s newest 3D printing hub, the Additive Manufacturing Technology Center (AMTC), is rapidly growing, increasingly attracting businesses to its innovation-driven environment. One of its latest additions is Anisoprint, a Luxembourg…
3D Printing News Briefs, March 22, 2023: Carbon Sequestration, 3D Printed Bird Drones, & More
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, Meltio is expanding its worldwide partner network, and 3D Systems introduced its VSP Connect portal. Oregon State University and Sandia National Laboratories received a…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: October 16, 2022
Because there an insane number of events and webinars for this week’s roundup, I’m going to do things a little differently in this edition. First, I’ll list all of the…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: October 3rd, 2021
We have an extremely packed week of webinars and events, both virtual and in-person, to tell you about! From design for additive manufacturing and high-temperature 3D printers to aluminum 3D…
Continuous Fiber 3D Printing Used for USAF Aircraft Wing Structure
Idaho-based company Continuous Composites owns the earliest granted patents on Continuous Fiber 3D Printing, or CF3D, which can reduce manufacturing lead time and manual labor and enable the production of…
Fortify Closes $20M VC Round for Magnetically-Aligned Composite 3D Printing
Cota Capital, Accel Partners, Neotribe Ventures, and Prelude Ventures have participated in a $20 million equity round for Fortify. Boston-based Fortify has developed a digital light processing (DLP) technology that…
Natural Fiber Biocomposites in 3D & 4D Printing: A Review
In an article published in the journal of Materials & Design, titled “A review of 3D and 4D printing of natural fiber biocomposites,” researchers review the fascinating evolution of natural materials and…
3D Printing Webinar and Virtual Event Roundup, October 25, 2020
I hope you’ve cleared your schedule for the week, because we’ve got a lot of webinars and virtual events to tell you about! Formlabs and ASME are both hosting summits,…
ESA and Zortrax 3D Print PEEK Composites for Built-in Electronics
Polish 3D printing solutions provider Zortrax has been working with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the last year to figure out how to use 3D printing to fabricate high-performance…
Anisoprint Launches New Carbon Fiber 3D Printing Turnkey Solution
Headquartered in Luxembourg and Russia and founded in 2015, Anisoprint commercialized its own proprietary, science-based version of continuous fiber 3D printing, which it calls composite fiber coextrusion (CFC). The method…
RIZE Announces RIZIUM Glass Fiber 3D Printing for Large Color Parts
This morning Massachusetts-based Rize, Inc. announced the release of its RIZIUM™ Glass Fiber (GF) composite. Founded in 2014 by CTO Eugene Giller (formerly of ZCorp), the 3D printer manufacturer also…
Researchers Review 3D Printing with Biomass-Derived Composites
Researchers from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have come…
Slovakia: 3D Printing with Hybrid PETG Composites
Researchers from Slovakia are exploring the use of new, more affordable materials in 3D printing, releasing their findings in the recently published ‘Novel Hybrid PETG Composites for 3D Printing.’ Additive…
Brightlands Materials Center: 3D Printed Self-Sensing Composite Fiber Parts
Dutch research and development center Brightlands Materials Center, founded in 2015 by TNO and Province of Limburg, is focused on the improvement of 3D printed polymeric materials. Now, it’s introducing…
Arris Composites Completes $48.5M Series B Funding, Led by Tawania Capital
As additives for materials in digital fabrication continue to play an expanded role in 3D printing and additive manufacturing processes, companies like Arris Composites plan to open new facilities around…
University of Waterloo: Cellulosic Nanocomposites in Additive Manufacturing & Electrospinning
Andrew Finkle recently presented a thesis to the University of Waterloo, exploring the potential for more effective materials. In ‘Cellulosic Nanocomposites for Advanced Manufacturing: An Exploration of Advanced Materials in…
Carbon Fiber Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate Composite (CF-ASA): New Material for Large Format Additive Manufacturing
Researchers from Spain are studying materials for more effective large-scale 3D printing, outlining their findings in the recently published ‘Development of carbon fiber acrylonitrile styrene acrylate composite for large format…
Focus on Improving PLA Mechanical Properties with Addition of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate)
In ‘Improving Mechanical Properties for Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing of Poly(Lactic Acid) by Annealing and blending with Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate),’ researchers from Ghent University in Belgium, and Sichuan University in China, explore new…
