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Metal Wire 3D Printer OEM ValCUN Announces Plans for 2025 Expansion
ValCUN, a Belgian original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of wire-based metal additive manufacturing (AM) hardware, has announced that the company has entered the next phase of its growth trajectory, making key…
BIO INX and Rousselot Team up to Elevate Gelatin Bioinks for Bioprinting
BIO INX and Rousselot, which create 3D bioprinting materials and gelatin products, respectively, have teamed up to advance the production of 3D printed tissues. The duo will share their knowledge…
3DPOD Episode 179: Molten Metal Additive Manufacturing with Jonas Galle, ValCUN
Seven years ago, Jonas Galle began his journey to develop a molten metal 3D printing technology. Since then, his young startup, ValCUN, has been on a wild ride The company…
Exclusive: Materialise’s Outgoing and New CEOs Shed Light on Transition
As discussed in a separate article, Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) founder Fried Vancrean is retiring from his position as CEO, to be replaced by Brigitte de Vet-Veithen, who joined the company…
3D Printing Veteran Fried Vancrean Retires as Materialise CEO
Fried Vancrean is a luminary in the 3D printing world. After three decades leading Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS), we had the privilege of interviewing him and featuring him not once but…
ValCUN Sells First Molten Metal 3D Printer to Belgian Research Group Sirris
ValCUN, an innovative Belgian startup, has the potential to shake up the 3D printing landscape with its unique method of melting metals through a crucible. This Molten Metal Deposition (MMD)…
FDA Master File for Medical 3D Printing to Speed Up Regulatory Approval
Belgian firm Amnovis is commercializing its deep titanium 3D printing and implant experience by helping other medical firms, startups and inventors bring their products to market. Through the company’s manufacturing…
ValCUN Releases First Molten Metal 3D Printer
Belgian metal 3D printing startup ValCUN has for a few years now been working on a completely new metal 3D printing technology. At first, the company developed the technology itself….
3D Printing Webinar & Event Roundup: April 16, 2023
We’ve got a busy week of in-person events around the globe, with COExperience in Florida, Hannover Messe in Germany, the UK Manufacturing & Supply Chain Expo, and several more. Xometry…
3DPOD Episode 120: Increasing the Adoption of 3D Printing with Kris Binon, General Director of Flam3D
Kris Binon is at the helm of Flam3D, an organization that began by connecting the Belgian region of Flanders via 3D printing. Later, Flam3D grew to represent research institutes and…
One 3D Printing Nozzle, Many Diameters: New from Sculpman
In material extrusion, you’ve traditionally been tied to one nozzle geometry and size. Ideally, you may want to have a larger nozzle to make large interior areas and a finer…
MeaTech to Open Plant in Belgium for 3D Printing Cultured Chicken Fat
Plenty of additive manufacturing industry firms have launched IPOs since the end of last year, like Desktop Metal, Norsk Titanium, and also MeaTech 3D Ltd., the first cell-cultured meat company to…
ValCUN Closes €1.5 Million Financing Round for Unique Plasma Metal 3D Printing
Belgian startup ValCUN has just raised €1.5 million to further the development of its metal printing technology. PMV, VLAIO, and private investors took part in the funding round in the…
3DPOD Episode 43: Powder Bed Fusion Innovations with Aerosint’s Edouard Moens de Hase
Edouard Moens de Hase talks to us today about Aerosint. For the last few years, they have been working on improving powder bed fusion. The company has an innovative drum…
3D Printing Financials: Despite Q3 Revenue Drop, Materialise Beats Analyst Forecasts & Medical Division Grows
Additive manufacturing software and of 3D printing service provider Materialise posted financial results in its third-quarter for 2020. As the Belgium-based company continues to suffer consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic, total…
Kamp C Completes Two-Story 3D Printed House in Belgium
Kamp C has been gearing up for a large-scale 3D printing effort at its site in Belgium since last year, with the delivery of a COBOD BOD2 printer measuring 10…
Affordable Aluminum 3D Printing with ValCUN’s Molten Metal Deposition
Whereas 3D printing has traditionally been used to make a lot of high-end parts in which weight saving and the texture or form make a high-value 3D-printed part worthwhile, lower…
Belgian Construction Group Designates BESIX 3D to Specialize in Concrete 3D Printing
Motivated by its continued interests in offering niche solutions, Belgian construction company BESIX Group has created BESIX 3D, focused on concrete 3D printing. Born from an idea ‘shortlisted’ by Unleash—an…
LASEA & Aerosint to Develop L-PBF Technology With In Situ Laser Ablation
High-powered collaborations are in the works everywhere lately, including Belgium, as LASEA and Aerosint launch a funded development project for a hybrid L-PBF technology with in situ laser ablation and…
Tessenderlo Group Releases First Gelatin Bioink in Claro Series
An inclusive team of scientists at Tessenderlo Group, headquartered in Belgium, has announced a recent breakthrough in bioprinting with the creation of new gelatin materials for tissue engineering. Today, they…
atum3D Installs Operator Station Software and DLP Station 5 3D Printer at Sirris Technology Collective
Digital light processing (DLP) specialist and open platform 3D manufacturing company atum3D, based in the Netherlands, introduced the latest version of its intuitive Operator Station print preparation software, complete with proprietary MAGS…
Belgian Startup Introduces Flexible, Transportable, Large-Scale Colossus 3D Printer at formnext
This year’s formnext wrapped up last week in Frankfurt, and many companies were there to showcase their latest products, including Colossus, a multinational 3D printing startup based in Belgium. At the…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 31, 2018
Happy Halloween, fair readers! We’re giving you a treat today instead of a trick – our latest edition of 3D Printing News Briefs. First up, Materialise has completed a mammoth…
No Bones About It: Materialise Has Taken On a Mammoth 3D Printed Reconstruction Project
Materialise is in the middle of an SLA 3D printing project of epic proportions…one might even call it a mammoth job. The Belgium-based company is creating a life-size, 3D printed…