additive manufacturing
Ordering Custom Parts is Easier Than Ever with Instant Quoting
The traditional process for ordering custom parts can be a long and cumbersome experience, often requiring back and forth conversations and emails over days or even weeks, but one company…
Southwest’s Largest Additive Manufacturing Hub Formed at ASU in Partnership with Honeywell Aerospace, PADT, Concept Laser
“Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.” This phrase is often credited to 19th century American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley, who heard it from a…
Titan Robotics’ Large-Format 3D Printer, the Cronus, Features Five Print Heads and Autodesk Netfabb Software
In 2016, 3D printer manufacturer Titan Robotics started work to build the first commercial multi-head machine featuring Autodesk’s Project Escher technology. Last week at CES 2017, the Colorado-based company was able to…
Metal Additive Manufacturing Helps Renault Trucks Reduce Weight of 4-Cylinder Engine by 25% Using 3D Printed Components
In spring of 2015, 3D artist and designer Bernhard Bauer used Blender to 3D model, from scratch, and 3D print a 1:14 scale Renault delivery truck replica for one of…
Sculpteo Brings Artificial Intelligence to Metal Additive Manufacturing with Agile Metal Technology
One of the things we can expect from big tech shows like CES 2017 are exciting announcements on new products, materials, and services from conference attendees and presenters. With today’s announcement,…
VCST Looks to LCV for Help with Prototypes of Automotive Gearboxes Using Laser Cladding in 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing is on the rise throughout the industry, and some of that is thanks to hybrid manufacturing methods, like laser cladding. This is a complex process where material,…
European Defence Agency Launches Project to Test Feasibility of Additive Manufacturing in Europe’s Defense Sector
We know that 3D printing is versatile and and extremely useful to many industries, including branches of the military. Marines are learning how to utilize the technology in order to…
Reaction Systems Wins Two-Year, $750K SBIR Contract Extension Thanks to Additive Manufacturing Expertise from ADAPT Consortium and Faustson Tool
The Alliance for the Development of Additive Processing Technologies (ADAPT), a research and development consortium based out of Colorado that’s dedicated to developing advanced additive manufacturing technologies, gives a leg…
Farsoon Technologies Now Offers Direct Sales of Metal Additive Manufacturing Solutions in North America with Creation of Farsoon Americas
China-based Farsoon Technologies, a specialist in laser sintering equipment, materials, prototyping services, and technical support, is offering direct-to-consumer sales of their full line of metal additive manufacturing solutions to customers…
Thermwood Corporation and Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East Sign Formal Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
Thermwood Corporation, established in Indiana in 1969 and the oldest CNC manufacturing company in business, has just announced that it signed a formal Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the…
Z3DLAB Signs Joint Venture with Semiconductor Expert HS HI-TECH to Make Z3DFAB Digital AM Production Center
French company Z3DLAB, formed in 2014 and specializing in metal additive manufacturing by SLM, has signed a joint venture with Korean semiconductor expert HS HI-TECH. It’s called Z3DFAB, a new digital additive…
Materialise Gives Nuova SPA Bicicletto a 3D Printed Upgrade
Belgium-based Materialise, a global leader in additive manufacturing software and solutions, is doing pretty well for itself. At formnext 2016 earlier this month, they released an enhanced version of their design…
Siemens’ New End-to-End Solution Designed to Help Companies Maximize Additive Manufacturing for Product Development
While Siemens may not be a company you immediately associate with 3D printing—yet—they’ve been making their move into the industry in some very interesting ways, from their partnership with Local…
Furthering 3D Printing Worldwide: ISO & ASTM International Create Additive Manufacturing Standards Development Structure
There’s certainly a lot to be said for getting in at the beginning of something new and amazing like 3D printing—a realm that began with no rules because so few…
Taiwan’s ITRI Looks to Materialise 3D Software to Help Build the Factory of the Future
As 3D printing evolves around the world, it’s somehow very satisfying to see companies from other countries working together, especially when a variety of products are able to perform to their full…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — May 7
This week’s news covers awards, appointments, new 3D printing facilities and services, and a shoutout to 3D printing from a Google parent company executive. Divergent 3D has received a tech award…
SME Addresses Parental Misconceptions about Manufacturing Jobs
Early Industrial America was a rough place to work for children. There weren’t labor laws, and families were forced to work in dangerous and unhealthy conditions, sometimes losing body parts and…
President Obama Opened Hannover Messe with a Pitch for TPP and a Shoutout to 3D Printing in the US
As a sign of how important the technology is becoming to the resurgence of industry and manufacturing in the United States, 3D printing was the only specific technology mentioned by…
New IN(3D)USTRY Event in Barcelona Looks at AM Industry from the Adopters’ Angle
IN(3D)USTRY, a new, 3-day event taking place from June 21st to June 23rd at the captivating location of Fira Barcelona, is starting from adopters’ manufacturing needs and then moving on…
Using Cellulose to 3D Print Food
Remember when you were a kid and you just didn’t feel right, how your mom would make you a big, steaming hot bowl of cellulose to warm your tummy? No?…
3D Printing: The News We Didn’t Cover This Week — April 9
This week’s news covers 3D printed prostheses and e-bike parts, an additive manufacturing business partnership, and two stories with 3D Systems at the center. The first is about the SLAbot-2 from 3D Systems,…
Bottom and Top Driven 3D Printing Meet as Ultimaker Founder Hands out Additive Industries’ Design Awards
Ultimaker and Additive Industries are two Dutch 3D printing companies that have taken diametrically opposite approaches to the industry. These very different business models have just found a common ground…
America Makes…Money
Familiar with America Makes? It bills itself as “the national accelerator for additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing (3DP),” and “the nation’s leading and collaborative partner in AM and 3DP…
Additive Manufacturing — The Year Ahead
When Neil Burns founded Croft Filters with his brother Mark, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), was still the stuff of science fiction. Fast forward 28 years and not only have the…
