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3D Printing in Aviation at Paris Air Show: Stratasys Among Companies Looking Up in Additive Manufacturing
From June 19 to 25, visitors and exhibitors from the aviation industry will gather in Paris for the International Paris Air Show. Among those exhibitors will be Stratasys, which knows…
Friction Stir Additive Manufacturing Used for Functionally Graded Components
Over the past years we’ve seen a number of companies such as Sciaky, Optomec and Trumpf take traditional welding processes and turn them into 3D printing processes. Aeroprobe and the…
Etihad Partners with Diehl to 3D Print Aircraft Components for Middle Eastern Airline
Etihad Airways, the second largest airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Diehl Aerosystems, the engineering arm of the Diehl Group, entered into a strategic partnership to manufacture and…
Norsk Titanium Produces First FAA-Approved 3D Printed Structural Titanium Commercial Airplane Components for Boeing Dreamliner
When a company develops a unique technology, it’s understandable that they should want to keep it closely guarded, particularly in this digital era. Norsk Titanium has been developing their Rapid…
Airbus Develops 3D Printed Nozzles & Drilling Templates for Aircraft
Airbus continues to be one of the pioneers in using 3D printing technology for aircraft manufacturing. Keeping in line with other forces to be reckoned with such as NASA and Boeing,…
South Africa’s Giant Aeroswift 3D Printer Gearing Up for Commercial Production
3D printing technology has been on the rise in South Africa recently, and while the country isn’t one of the most commonly talked-about in the industry, South Africa has been…
3D Printing in the Military
3D printing has many military applications. Militaries around the world have been working on developing 3D printing technologies, using 3D printing for prototypes, developing their own fablabs and using the…
Amid an Increasingly Competitive Market, Boeing Turns to 3D Printing for Satellite Production
Boeing has been on board with 3D printing for quite some time now. While numerous aerospace companies have been embracing the technology, Boeing is one of the more creative –…
Oxford Performance Materials 3D Prints 600 Parts for Boeing’s Starliner Space Taxis
The concept of a space taxi is just something I find delightful, and the fact that it’s in the process of becoming a real thing rather than a fun idea…
Defence IQ Study Suggests 75% of Military Professionals Believe 3D Printing Will Be Standardized
Military research, analysis and commentary company Defence IQ revealed in a recent study presented via infographic that over 28% of surveyed military professionals and stakeholders are actively looking into the development and implementation of…
Oxford Performance Materials to Support Boeing Spacecraft with 3D Printed Structures
Oxford Performance Materials (OPM), a leading US-based additive manufacturing firm, was awarded with a contract from the US$97 billion aircraft manufacturing company Boeing to provide 3D printed structures for the…
2016 in 3D Printing: Your Favorite Stories from the Last Year
2016 has been — let’s say a mixed bag; while this year saw the loss of beloved celebrities, a heated US election, Brexit, Zika, an escalating crisis in Syria, and…
What Should Company Executives Be Asking About 3D Printing?
Multinational professional services firm Ernst & Young executive Channing Flynn examined the implications of 3D printing and rising interests of global corporation and conglomerates in an article published earlier this year…
ORNL and Boeing Earn Guinness Book of World Records Title for Largest Solid 3D Printed Part
Few government-backed entities have innovated upon 3D printing technology as much as the Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) largest national laboratory…
Stratasys to Unveil Groundbreaking New Infinite Build and Robotic Composite 3D Printing Demonstrators at IMTS
If there’s one company that most people would trust to give 3D printing advice, it’s likely Stratasys. The company has been around since the early days of 3D printing, and…
NAVAIR Successfully Tests First Flight-Critical 3D Printed Aircraft Component
Since the 1990s, additive manufacturing has been a part of naval aviation, but it’s only recently that the technology has moved past strictly prototyping purposes. The US Naval Air Systems…
Boeing Celebrates Centennial, Aims for Supersonic Flights and Transportation to Mars
Of all the industries that the emergence of 3D printing technology has had an immediate impact on, the aerospace business seems to be actualizing the full potential of these benefits….
Airbus Officially Unveils Thor, the Fully 3D Printed Plane that Flies Beautifully
The first 3D printed plane is making its debut, and nope, it’s not another one that’s been made in miniature by a hobbyist. And while it’s not full-scale, it’s certainly…
GE Aviation Tests the Largest Jet Engine in the World, Featuring 3D Printed Fuel Nozzles
A year ago, GE Aviation began incorporating 3D printed components into their jet engines for the first time ever, retrofitting hundreds of their GE90 engines with 3D printed sensor housings. At that…
Boeing Files Patent for Technology to 3D Print Artificial “Ice,” Easing the Aircraft Certification Process
When it comes to utilizing 3D printing technology within the aerospace industry, very few companies—aside from Airbus perhaps—have been experimenting as much as Boeing. Over the last year or so,…
Atlas V Rocket Successfully Launches with Multiple Components 3D Printed by Stratasys
3D printed parts have been finding themselves in rockets and spacecraft for a few years now, but typically it was a single, experimental part, usually printed in metal. However, using…
Boeing Files Patent Application, Wants to 3D Print Levitating Objects
I always love seeing new 3D printing patent applications. There has been some wacky-looking stuff presented — Samsung’s recently granted patent for a holographic 3D printer comes to mind — but I’ve never seen anything…
The Four Most Promising 3D Printing Investment Opportunities for 2016
With last year’s stock implosion of 3D printing giants 3D Systems and Stratasys and their rapidly dwindling good will on the stock market, you would think that the 3D printing…
3D Printing Was the Most Important Technology of 2015
I’m open to the suggestion that I may be a little biased on the subject, but I think this past year no other technology has proven that it will completely…
