additive manufacturing
China’s Journey to Success in 3D Printing Requires Innovation, Not Brute Strength
Many people in the West associate China with its seemingly limitless supply of cheap labor and old school manufacturing prowess. Increasingly, however, the Chinese are asking how they can participate…
NanoSteel’s New Metal Powders Deliver on Strength and Durability for Many Industries
Providence, Rhode Island-based NanoSteel does exactly as its name implies: it designs nano-structured steel materials. Now, it has made available its first powders for 3D printing/additive manufacturing. We reported on…
Auburn University and NASA Sign Space Act Agreement for AM Research
The latest Space Act Agreement between Auburn University and NASA will allow them to explore and advance the applications of additive manufacturing. Space Act Agreements are legal compacts specified in…
ELB-Schliff’s New millGrind Device Melds 3D Printing & Grinding
A new generation of hybrid machine tools are combining additive manufacturing capabilities with milling and CNC turning functionality. Now German machine tool maker ELB-Schliff has introduced a grinding machine they…
Italian Firm ZARE Cuts Manufacturing Costs 50 Percent with Stratasys 3D Printing Technology
Following 50 years in the field of precision mechanics, Italian firm ZARE Prototyping became an independent rapid prototyping service provider back in 2009. Now with an array of machines for metal…
In:Sand – 3D Printing with a Plentiful Building Material
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) takes on cutting edge education and research to prepare students to meet the challenges regarding the construction of habitable structures. Based in Barcelona,…
Beijing University Unveils Enormous 3D Printed Aircraft Frames & More, Created with SLS Technology
We’ve known for quite some time that various aircraft parts have been and continue to be fabricated with the help of additive manufacturing (3D printing). However, this week at a Science…
America Makes and YBI Launch the $100k AMPED Startup Competition
Today the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI) and America Makes (National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute) launched a two-stage $100k technology startup competition focusing on new technology, products and services related to…
Terry Wohlers Reports on the State of Additive Manufacturing at Inside 3D Printing Seoul
Terry Wohlers, Principal Consultant and President of Wohlers Associates, has been covering the 3D printing industry since 1986, the same year that Chuck Hull started the first commercial 3D printing…
ATI to Spend $70 Million to Increase Nickel-Based Superalloy Powder Capabilities for 3D Printing
3D printing in metal has really begun to take off within the manufacturing space. Printing in metal allows companies to save time and money in creating custom end-use products which…
Interview with MIT’s John Hart: 3D Printing Summer Class at University Looks to Teach Professionals
As 3D printing becomes more and more commonplace within the workforce, schools around the world are beginning to realize that this technology is not a fad. It isn’t going anywhere,…
PyroGenesis Files Provisional Patent For 3D Printable Powder Production Process
PyroGenesis designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes advanced plasma processes from a team of experienced engineers, scientists and technicians from their offices in Montreal, and they often work in partnership with…
UK’s LPW Technology & Metalysis Partner to Offer Greener Metal Powders for 3D Printing
As the additive manufacturing market grows, one of the most significant areas of growth remains the development of technology to lower costs and to offer environmentally friendly products and processes that…
New Data Shows That 3D Printed Components Could Cut Aircraft Weight By 7 Percent
The weight of accumulated parts is a critical factor in the aerospace industry’s efforts to build sleeker, lighter and more efficient planes. Shaving every available gram from the equation means…
Wire-Feed Additive Manufacturing Holds Great Potential for 3D Printing
Self-examination is a component of practice in any area that has begun to coalesce into a field in its own right. The development of an academic interest in the history…
Stratasys and Voxel8 Discuss 3D Printing and Robotics at RoboUniverse
Ryan Sybrant, Senior Manager, Global Manufacturing Solutions Sales at Stratasys, took the stage on the second day of the RoboUniverse Conference & Expo to speak at the 3D Printing and Robotics…
The University of Louisville is Set to Open a New 3D Printing Training Facility
Manufacturing safety sciences company UL LLC is partnering with the University of Louisville to open a new 3D printing and additive manufacturing training center. The UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center…
China Begins Construction on Its First National 3D Printing Lab
While there were plenty of varying factors in play, for the most part it wasn’t until President Obama began mentioning 3D printing technology and actually funding research that the it…
Sandretto Enters AM Market with Large Delta 3D Printer Line
Italian firm Sandretto, perhaps best known for their Serie Dieci injection molding machines, recently rolled out a range of 3D printers specifically designed for professional additive manufacturing. The Italian press…
What Can Additive Manufacturing Do for Tooling?
The global tooling industry is the largest horizontal industry, sustaining every major vertical industrial manufacturing sector. Since manufacturing and tooling are highly interdependent, none of them would ever be as…
Industrial Gases Key to Metal Additive Manufacturing — Air Products Launches Website to Guide Industry
In selective laser melting and similar processes, thin layers of atomized, fine metal powder are distributed using a coating mechanism onto a substrate plate attached to an indexing table that…
Volvo Trucks Cuts Production Time By 94% & Costs with Stratasys 3D Printing Systems
Volvo Trucks is a global truck manufacturer based in Gothenburg, Sweden, owned by AB Volvo, and the company is the world’s second largest heavy-duty truck brand. The first Volvo truck…
GKN Aerospace and Arcam Ink Deal to Refine Electron Beam Melting Technology
Electron beam melting uses a high power source which uses electromagnetic coils to provide several “melt pools” which can be precisely controlled and maintained simultaneously. The EBM process takes place…
Materialise Aquires Software Team CENAT, Offers Student Discount Through i.materialise
Materialise NV is a leading provider of software for additive manufacturing and provides 3D printing solutions in the medical and industrial markets as well, and lately, the company has been…
