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AM Investment Strategies Profile: FATHOM
Among the firms that will be participating in the SmarTech – Stifel AM Investment Strategies 2021 summit on September 9, 2021 is FATHOM, whose CEO Ryan Martin will be involved…
What the State of the AM Service Bureau Market Says About the Future of Additive
It’s been quite the wild ride for the additive manufacturing (AM) market over the last eighteen months—probably unlike any in history, which, in AM, is saying a lot. Looking back…
3DPOD Episode 70, 3D Printing in China: Gordon Styles, Star Rapid Founder
Gordon Styles is a true 3D printing pioneer. He bought a stereolithography machine very early and built the UK’s biggest service bureau off of it. After selling said business, he…
Metal 3D Printing Grows 11% in Q1 2021, Says SmarTech Report
According to SmarTech Analysis, the metal 3D printing industry grew by 11 percent in terms of global revenues in the first quarter of 2021. This double-digit expansion represents a continued…
Cumberland Additive Expands to Neighborhood 91 3D Printing Campus in Pittsburgh
The Neighborhood 91 (N91) 3D printing campus at Pittsburgh International Airport is starting to build up its population. In addition to Wabtec, which recently opened the doors to its facility…
Shapeways Adds Mimaki’s Full-Color 3D Printing to Service Portfolio
As 3D printing service bureau Shapeways moves into its next phase of development, involving an upcoming SPAC IPO, the company is shaking things up within its operations. It recently received…
Upon Protolabs Acquisition, 3D Hubs Becomes “Hubs”
After building up a significant business starting in 2013, 3D Hubs was acquired by Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB) in January 2021. As the startup becomes fully integrated into the larger manufacturing…
Part Renting, Parts-as-a-Service, and Build Volume Subscriptions in 3D Printing
More 3D printers are being leased. Vendors are looking at all-in-service models, as well. Following on from Carbon, subscriptions, including materials, are coming into vogue. HP has a hardware-as-a-service model…
BASF’s Replique Wants to 3D Print All of Your Spare Parts
Coming out of BASF’s Chemovator business incubator is Replique. The German company is offering a solution to enable the on-demand manufacturing of spare parts. Not only could Replique’s concept be…
Fictiv Raises $35M from Honeywell, Others to Expand Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem
San Francisco-based startup Fictiv has taken on $35 million in a funding round led by 40 North Ventures, with participation from Honeywell, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Adit Ventures, and M20…
Shapeways 3D Prints Over 20 Million Parts Worldwide
New York-based 3D printing service provider Shapeways announced it has 3D printed over 20 million products across dozens of industries, from architecture and robotics to drone technology, even focusing on…
DMC Brings Silicone 3D Printing to the U.K… Again
The Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC), a 3D printing service bureau, has introduced to the U.K. a process called silicone additive manufacturing (SAM). The technology, developed by a Swiss company called…
How to Make More Money at Your 3D Printing Shop
From a high-level perspective, you can categorize clients of 3D printing service shops into one of two buckets. Some clients tend to be more transactional in how they conduct business….
Oil Giant Baker Hughes and Würth to Offer 3D Printing and Digital Inventory Services
Würth Industry North America (WINA) and Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR) have announced that they will be partnering to provide design and additive manufacturing (AM) services across a number of industries, including oil and…
3D Printing Versus Injection Molding
Most custom plastic parts are produced commercially via injection molding. This is because once the upfront costs are covered, injection molding can produce in quantities of thousands to hundreds of…
Swiss-based JellyPipe Expands B2B 3D Printing Marketplace to UK
Switzerland-based JellyPipe, an online B2B marketplace connecting customers with 3D printing solution providers, resellers, and service providers, is now expanding its presence beyond continental Europe to UK and Ireland. The…
SLA Parts Are Cheaper than You Think
Stereolithography, widely known as “SLA,” is one of the most exciting forms of 3D printing technology on the market. It’s precise, it can produce smooth and detailed parts, and it…
Solvay: Updated Sinterline Technyl PA6 Powders and HUB Platform at formnext
As we get ever closer to this year’s formnext event, taking place in Frankfurt from November 19-22, more and more 3D printing industry companies are making announcements ahead of the…
Musical Chairs: GKN Buys Forecast3D
We’ve known already for a number of years that aerospace, automotive and defense company GKN is serious about 3D printing. The company acquired one of the first Additive Industries systems,…
Xometry: On-Demand Manufacturing Marketplace Completes $50MM Funding Round
Led by Greenspring Associates, Xometry has just announced $50MM raised in equity funding. Also funding the on-demand manufacturing marketplace are: Dell Technologies Capital BMW i Ventures Foundry Group GE Ventures…
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,…
Five Reasons Why Companies Are Turning to 3D Printing Service Bureaus
Additive manufacturing of metal is popular, but some end user companies are reticent about in-house printing of metals parts. This is, we believe, a powerful factor creating opportunities for metal…
3D Printing News Briefs: May 18, 2018
We’re starting with some exciting news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, then moving right along into business, events, and research. In Melbourne this week, Titomic has introduced its new…
Browse 3D Printing Services While Browsing the News with Our New Treatstock Widget
With so many 3D printing marketplaces out there, a platform needs to set itself apart in some way in order to survive. Treatstock certainly does so. The site goes beyond…