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New Commercial Showcases Paralympics Racing Wheelchair Custom-Designed by BMW Using 3D Technology
In just a few days, the 2016 Summer Olympics will be kicking off in Rio de Janeiro. A few weeks after they’re over, the city will host the 2016 Paralympics,…
Impossible Objects Now Offers 3D Printed PEEK Polymer Carbon Fiber Composite Parts
This week Illinois-based 3D printing materials sciences company Impossible Objects announced that they have developed a method of using PEEK (polyetheretherketone) with their revolutionary Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) process. For…
Innventia Heads up the AMPOFORM Project to Manufacture 3D Printed Prostheses Using Organic Materials
The Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation tasked their innovation agency Vinnova to assemble a group of European companies to develop new, low cost, biodegradable materials for customized prosthetic and…
Markforged Introduces Onyx, Its Latest Super-Strong 3D Printing Material Made from Nylon and Micro-Carbon
Personally, I love learning about new 3D printing materials. A new material means the potential to 3D print things that couldn’t be printed before, and Markforged has always come through in the…
Hexcel Explores 3D Printing Through Strategic Investment in Oxford Performance Materials
Oxford Performance Materials, a Connecticut-based additive manufacturing company, has established a strong presence in the biomedical, aerospace, and industrial sectors, and in recent years they’ve made a tremendous impact on spinal surgery…
Fiber-Reinforced Nylon: 3D Hubs Releases Kevlar, Carbon & Fiberglass Materials for Strong Yet Affordable 3D Printing
If you enjoy 3D printing, chances are you’ve also gained quite an appreciation for the science—and wide range of choices—of materials that now accompany this technology. Most likely you began…
Pininfarina and De Rosa Join Forces to Create a 3D Printed Italian Racing Bicycle
At 13 years old just after the war in 1947, Ugo De Rosa was crazy about bicycles. He reveled in reviewing the feats of the great road racers Bartali and…
ORNL & Clayton Homes are 3D Printing a Home & Car That Share Energy with One Another
After two years of covering news related to the 3D printing industry, it’s very seldom that I get overly excited about a particular story or a project. With that said,…
Poznań Student Uses 3D Printing to Create a Carbon Fiber Printing Robot
In the 1960s a material called carbon fiber really began to show its potential in the creation of ultra strong, ultra light parts which were utilized by companies such as…
3D Printing & Carbon Fiber Join Forces in Creation of Unique Quadcopter
When quadcopter enthusiast describe their relationship with the little machines, words like ‘addiction’ almost always seem to come to the surface. Combine that with the alluring call of 3D printing’s…
MarkForged Releases Benchmark Data for Their Line of Carbon Fiber, Kevlar, Fiberglass, and Nylon Filament Formulations
The Mark One 3D printer from MarkForged prints in carbon fiber, Kevlar, fiberglass, and nylon formulations. With a build volume of 320 x 132 x 160 mm, it makes use of…
Perceptron’s New ScanR Scanning System Ideal for Capturing Reflective and Carbon Fiber Materials
Perceptron, Inc. has spent the last 20 years pioneering and refining the use of laser scanners for applications on portable, and fixed, coordinate measuring machines. Now with the ScanR, what…
Orbital Composites to Make 3D Printing 100 Times Faster Using Carbon Fiber, Fiber Optics, Injection & More
Every so often there comes along a startup which somehow remains under the radar for one reason or another. This is especially true within the 3D printing space. Last month…
Impossible Objects Receives $2.8m Investment to 3D Print with Kevlar, Fiberglass & Carbon Fiber
Impossible Objects is, even for the 3D printing world, apparently doing the impossible. The focus of the company is to create the world’s first composite 3D printed objects, using an…
3DXTech Offers New Carbon Fiber-Reinforced PLA and ABS Filaments, 3DXMax CFR
Traditional 3D printing materials such as PLA and ABS are incredibly useful, but they do have limited technical capabilities as a result of the structures of the polymers themselves. But…
World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer, The Mark One, Opens its Doors for Pre-orders
Today MarkForged announced that they have begun taking pre-orders for their Mark One 3D Printer. For those that aren’t familiar with the printer, it is the first 3D printer that…
Details Emerge on The Mark One Carbon Fiber 3D Printer: Prints using continuous fibers in user defined unidirection
Just last week, we wrote about the world’s first carbon fiber 3D printer, the Mark One. Upon the announcement there were a plethora of questions concerning the groundbreaking new technology. This…
World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Announced, The Mark One
This is the week of the SolidWorks World 2014 in San Diego, Ca, and so far there have been quite a few pretty groundbreaking announcements from the convention. Last night…
