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Direct Image Sintering: Visitech Introduces New DLP-PBF 3D Printing Tech
In fall 2020, Visitech quietly made news with the release of a scrolling DLP projector capable of sintering plastic powder, potentially opening up new levels of throughput and reduced cost…
In-Vision Announces Industrial 4K UV DLP Projector for 3D Printing
As 4K technology has become mainstream, it is now trickling into other markets where the benefits of high resolution is applicable. This includes 3D printing, where digital light processing (DLP)…
Luxinergy Using Biocompatible Resin & In-Vision’s HELIOS Light Engine to 3D Print Orthotics
Custom medical devices called orthotics are used to hep patients recover from injuries and correct body misalignments, and can also relieve pain. Unfortunately, it takes a long time to make…
Understanding the Risks and Benefits of 3D Printing Resins
While vat photopolymerization, such as stereolithography (SLA) and digital light processing (DLP), is the oldest method of 3D printing, it’s only recently made its way to casual users. SLA and…
Fortify Closes $20M VC Round for Magnetically-Aligned Composite 3D Printing
Cota Capital, Accel Partners, Neotribe Ventures, and Prelude Ventures have participated in a $20 million equity round for Fortify. Boston-based Fortify has developed a digital light processing (DLP) technology that…
Startup Accelerator: Holo Wants to 3D Print Millions of Copper Heatsinks Annually
I’m very excited about Holo, a company that aims to take a slurry digital light processing (DLP) technology to sinter metal parts to the heatsinks industry. By creating cost-effective, topology-optimized…
Not All DLP Machines for the Dental Industry Are Created Equal
Zahn Dental’s Beth Collington will be speaking at 3DPrint.com’s upcoming AMS online industry summit (Feb 9-10, 2021). Register here. It is critical in today’s evolving marketplace that utilizing your business’s capital for…
New Nano-Ceramic Reinforced Composite-X Resin for 3D Printed Industrial Parts Launched by Liqcreate
Liqcreate, the global manufacturer of professional grade 3D-printing materials, announces the release of a new groundbreaking engineering grade 3D-printing resin. With this new material, Liqcreate continues to expand on its…
How Safe Are 3D Printing Resins?
Material extrusion like fused deposition modeling (FDM) is the most popular polymer 3D printing technology, but resins are resonating among consumers. Resin-based techniques, like stereolithography (SLA), used to only appear…
3D Printing 2021 Market Outlook: Production Vat Polymerization Systems (SLA, DLP)
In the large-format vat polymerization market, high utilization is the norm. These machines are used for casts, molds and prototypes, but also to make millions of thermoforming inserts, dental parts…
3D Printing 2021 Market Outlook: Pro Vat Polymerization Systems (SLA,DLP)
A cut above desktop systems, the pro market was always aimed at the sophisticated designer or consumer and small businesses. Increasingly, these systems are used for production in casual, series…
Automated Dental 3D Printing System Released by Rapid Shape
According to the “Additive Manufacturing in Dentistry 2021” report by SmarTech Analysis, while the dental industry has been seen as one of the more stable, fast-growing AM applications in recent…
UNIZ Launches High Resolution LCD SLA 3D Printer “IBEE”
Among the most exciting developments in 3D printing is the proliferation of low-cost stereolithography (SLA) and digital light processing (DLP) 3D printers. A key driver of this trend is the…
In-Vision Releases Powerful HELIOS Light Engine for DLP 3D Printing
In 2000, several former employees of film camera and projector manufacturer Eumig, which filed for insolvency in 1981, joined together to found In-Vision Digital Imaging Optics GmbH, a manufacturing shop…
DSM’s Andrew Graves on His 30 Years in 3D Printing
DSM’s Andrew Graves has spent over three decades in 3D printing. Starting at 3D Systems, continuing for Stratasys Direct Manufacturing and now with DSM, Graves has seen the market evolve…
Connecting at Formnext Connect, Part Two: Cellulose, QA, and DLP for PBF 3D Printing
The industry’s biggest trade show made the crucial decision to take its world-renowned event and host it online, potentially disrupting countless networking opportunities and business deals. Given the fact that…
3DPOD Episode 40: EnvisionTEC CEO Al Siblani
Al Siblani is a 3D printing pioneer who got his start over 19 years ago. He worked with layered object manufacturing—the paper, and laser technology—which is a leitmotiv of our…
One-Droplet Continuous 3D Printing Makes Objects from Single Drop of Resin
Researchers from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and MIT have published a paper in Nature Communications describing an interesting take on continuous digital…
3D Printing Chemistry 101: Polyurethanes and Carbon’s RPU
If you’re anything like this author, you got a C- in high school chemistry and never looked back. With a newfound interest in the topic, I’m hoping to revisit the…
Peopoly Releases Bigger, Faster Phenom XXL DLP 3D Printer
Peopoly has been receiving positive feedback as a 3D printer developer and manufacturer since the launch of its Moai SLA 3D printer in 2017. Continuing on with their Phenom series,…
Open Stereolithography: The Winner Takes All Opportunity in SLA Materials
Twelve years ago I was at a conference and the only thing we could all agree on was that SLA was dead. Intrinsicly expensive, dangerous, and without options to automate…
Researchers 3D Printing for Contaminant Removal with 3D Printed Zeolite Monoliths
International researchers explore methods for removing contaminants in their recently published ‘Nuclear wastewater decontamination by 3D-Printed hierarchical zeolite monoliths.’ Focusing on the radioactive cationic species, 137Cs+ and 90Sr2+, this study brings greater…
EnvisionTEC-exocad Partnership Signals Industry Integration
For LMT Lab Day 2020, a number of 3D printing companies are rolling out their dental 3D printing product lines. This year, there’s the sense that there is a change…
Research in China Yields New DLP 3D Printed Microneedles
Chinese researchers are finding better ways to create microneedles, helping patients avoid some of the pain and discomfort offered by more conventional injection devices. Novel, 3D printed hydrogel microneedles help…