Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3D printing
3D Printing News Briefs, January 27, 2024: PAEK, Triangle Mesh, Bionic Arm, & More
In 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re talking about PAEK materials and QA for polymer 3D printing, before moving on to real-time tracking of electron beam additive manufacturing. Upwing Energy integrated…
BigRep’s 2024 SPAC Deal: Set for Q1 Completion with €157M Valuation
Kicking off 2024 with a major move, German large-scale 3D printer manufacturer BigRep plans to become a publicly listed company by merging with Luxembourg-based special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) SMG…
BigRep Announces SPAC Deal for 3D Printing IPO on Frankfurt Stock Exchange
BigRep is on its way to becoming a publicly traded company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. A manufacturer of large-format fused filament fabrication (FFF), BigRep has signed a deal with…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: July 30, 2023
Webinar topics covered in this week’s roundup include metal AM material development, 3D printing for wax investment casting patterns, post-processing for military applications, and more. Plus, Stratasys continues its tour,…
Wiring and Electronics 3D Printing Startup Pulls In $2.7M Seed Investment
UK robotics company Q5D Technologies Limited closed a $2.7 million seed round to accelerate the automated manufacture of wiring harness for a wide range of products, from fighter jets to…
RIZE Ships First 7XC Industrial Composite 3D Printers
Boston-based 3D printer manufacturer RIZE hit a new milestone with its latest RIZE 7XC large-format 3D printer, to be shipped starting in April 2021. The sustainable fused filament fabrication (FFF)…
Hybrid 3D Printing Technique Creates Plastic-Metal Structures All at Once
Until now, metal and plastic additive manufacturing technologies have been incompatible with each other because their melting points are very different. Moreover, current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal…
Hybrid Drug Delivery Systems Made by Combining FFF 3D Printing & Conventional Manufacturing
Over the last few years, research has shown that 3D printing has a lot of potential for fabricating drug delivery systems. Now, a group of researchers from the Aristotle University…
Analyzing FFF 3D Printing with High-Performance Thermoplastics
Shahriar Bakrani Balani recently presented a thesis, ‘Additive manufacturing of the high-performance thermoplastics: Experimental study and numerical simulation of the Fused Filament Fabrication,’ to Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse. Delving…
FFF 3D Printing at University of Tennessee: Enhancing Macroscopic Properties with Nanoscopic Additives
Dayton Phillip Street recently presented his doctoral dissertation, ‘Enhancing the Macroscopic Properties of Parts Printed via Fused Filament Fabrication by Incorporating Nanoscopic Additives,’ at the University of Tennessee. With a…
FFF 3D Printing: Degradable Polymer Nanocomposities for Medical Applications
In the recently published ‘Degradable Polymer Nanocomposites for Fused Filament Fabrication Applications,’ researchers from Ireland are exploring the massive use of plastics around the world, along with environmental concerns. In…
