3d printing silicone
Louisville Slugger Knocks it out of the Park Designing Bats with Formlabs 3D Printers
In 2022, historical bat brand Louisville Slugger revealed a new strategy to optimize its product, combining digital simulation for the design process and 3D motion capture technology for comprehensive baseball…
New Silicon 3D Printer to Be Unveiled by Lynxter at Formnext 2022
Aiming to disrupt the medical and industrial-grade silicon markets, Lynxter has launched a new 3D printer capable of two-component liquid printing of silicones and polyurethanes. It will debut the new…
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…
Biocompatible Silicone for Medical 3D Printing Launched by B9Creations
Headquartered in South Dakota, with additional offices in Texas and Colorado, B9Creations provides professional additive manufacturing solutions to customers and certified dealers in almost 70 different countries, for applications including…
B9Creations Launches Silicone Material for 3D Printing Jewelry Molds
Global 3D printing solutions provider B9Creations prides itself on promising up front just what it can deliver, and what it’s offering now could impact the jewelry industry. The company, which…
German RepRap Rebrands as innovatiQ, Sells Silicone 3D Printers in France
Silicone is still comparatively limited in 3D printing, with a few firms specializing in the technology and a few more offering printheads capable of depositing silicone materials. That space is…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 28, 2021: Ural Federal University, Criar Designs, Oryx Additive
In this edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ve got physicists 3D printing magnets, a new company 3D printing custom silicone sex toys, and a more ergonomic water-pressure cleaning station…
Lynxter 3D Printing Silicone onto Fabric with ViscoTec Printheads
German company ViscoTec develops systems needed for conveying, dosing, applying, filling, and emptying fluids, which includes printheads for viscous fluids and two-component 3D printing. Its innovations are used in many…
3D Printing News Briefs: April 17, 2020
Starting today’s 3D Printing News Briefs off with some good news, an Irish engineering student wins big in the annual Stratasys Extreme Redesign Challenge. Launcher has reached an agreement with…
3D Printing News Briefs: April 4, 2020
It’s the first 3D Printing News Briefs of the month! To start with, SelfCAD released a new update, and ACEO is hosting a webinar series about 3D printing with silicones,…
3D Printing News Briefs: March 10, 2020
The big story in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs is the postponing of the Materialise World Summit. Then we’ll finish with a little business news, as 3D PRINT UK is…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 14, 2019
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, everything is new, new, new! Carbon is announcing a new RPU 130 material, and STERNE Elastomere introduces its antimicrobial silicone 3D printing. Protolabs launches…
Silicone 3D Printing Startup Spectroplast Completes CHF 1.5 Million Seed Round with AMV
Spectroplast AG, headquartered in Zurich, has just completed a CHF 1.5 million seed round with AM Ventures Holding GmbH (AMV), allowing them to move further ahead in silicone 3D printing….
3D Printing Awakens Renewed Interest in Polymeric Heart Valves for Patient-Specific Treatment
Authors Charles D. Resor and Deepak L Batte review the recent work of André R. Studart and his co-researchers in creating artificial heart valves via 3D printing. Their findings are…
3D Printing News Briefs: April 17, 2019
We’ve got all the details of a new contest to share in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by business and some news about RAPID + TCT, which will be…
WACKER Opens New ACEO Open 3D Print Lab at Ann Arbor Facility
Munich-based WACKER is known for their expertise in manufacturing and supplying chemicals and materials to industry leaders. They are now adding to their silicone research and development facility in Ann…
ACEO Introduces New Electrically Conductive Silicone 3D Printing Materials
WACKER‘s silicone brand, ACEO, was developed in 2016, at the same time that the company announced that it had created the first-ever industrial 3D printer for silicones. ACEO is going…
Sterne Bringing Silicone 3D Printing to COMPAMED Trade Fair
Sterne Elastomere, a company located in the south of France, specializes in manufacturing items out of silicone materials for industries such as food and drink, mass transit, medical, nuclear, and…
Breakthrough 3D Printed Neural Scaffold Could Help Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries Regain Some Functions
Right now, 285,000 people in the US suffer from spinal cord injuries, with roughly 17,000 new injuries each year. 3D printed spinal implants have been shown to help patients recover more…
ECCO Steps Forward with 3D Printed Custom Silicone Midsoles
German company ViscoTec, which manufactures systems required for conveying, dosing, applying, filling, and emptying medium to high-viscosity fluids for multiple industries, including automotive, medical, and aerospace, is well-known in the…
ACEO Highlights Silicone 3D Printing for Soft Robotic Grippers
Yesterday, we learned that 3D printed silicone leader ACEO, a brand launched by German chemical company Wacker Chemie AG in 2016, made its first public disclosure of fluorosilicone 3D printing, which is a 100% elastomer…
3D Printing News Briefs: May 8, 2018
We’re starting with business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to materials news. Nano Dimension has named a technology veteran to be its Chief Technology Officer,…
3D Printing Used to Create Supercapacitor Wristband for a Wearable Charge
It’s safe to say that a lot of people these days rely on their smartphones for all sorts of reasons – from communication to scheduling, and everything in between (sometimes…
LLNL Successfully Creates 4D Printed Flexible, Stretchable Composite Silicone Materials with Shape Memory
Earlier this summer, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) were working on using a direct ink writing (DIW) process to 3D print silicone metamaterials with shape memory behavior –…
