GKN Powder Metallurgy
American Axle & Manufacturing Acquires GKN Powder Metallurgy and GKN Automotive for $1.44B
American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM), a publicly listed supplier of automotive driveline and drivetrain components headquartered in Detroit, has acquired Dowlais Group plc, the parent company of GKN Automotive and…
Bound Metal 3D Printing to Make $54B in Metal Parts through 2030
SmarTech Analysis has released the latest edition of its report on bound metal 3D printing. Dubbed “Bound Metal & Metal Binder Jetting AM 2022,” the report projects that metal binder…
Dream 3D Printing Mergers and Acquisitions: Renishaw
Renishaw’s owners have put the metrology and metal printing firm up for sale. With comparatively few powder bed fusion players of note, this is bound to attract some attention. But,…
IDAM’s Automotive 3D Printing Production Lines Make Progress with BMW, GKN and More
Since the inception of the Industrialization and Digitalization of Additive Manufacturing (IDAM) project in March 2019, progress has been made: partners have been creating the promised digitalized AM pilot lines,…
Big Push in Germany to Enable 3D Printing in Automotive Industry
3D printing and additive manufacturing have become a matter of national importance in Germany, and to the automotive industry overall. Several organizations—along with the ongoing support of the Fraunhofer Institute…
HP’s Multi Jet Fusion and Metal Jet 3D Printing Technology Continue to Accelerate
As formnext kicks off in Frankfurt, Germany, several companies are already making big announcements. HP is no exception, blazing into formnext with a series of updates regarding its Jet Fusion…
Team TUfast Uses Metal 3D Printing to Improve Cooling Geometry of Its Unique Race Car Housing By 20%
3D printing is often called to the track these days to help student formula teams in augmenting their race cars. This season, the Formula Student racing team from TU Munich (TUM)…
GKN Additive Bringing Innovation to Motorcycle Manufacturing with Metal 3D Printing
In October of 2017, global engineering group GKN announced that it would be consolidating all of its additive manufacturing activities into one sub-brand of GKN Powder Metallurgy, called GKN Additive. The…
GKN Group Consolidates All Additive Manufacturing Activities Into New Company Brand
Global engineering group GKN plc has separate, specified company divisions in aerospace, automotive engineering, and powder metallurgy, and has utilized additive manufacturing in each of them for years, working to refine and research…
GKN Sinter Metals and 3YOURMIND Introduce InstAMetal Platform for Metal 3D Printed Parts
GKN Sinter Metals, a global corporation dating back to the 1930s, is the world’s largest producer of precision metal powder products. The company has roughly 6,000 employees in more than…
Additive Manufacturing to Play Role in Nacelle Production
Today we see a wide range of industrial items being 3D printed, from rocket engines and entire planes, to cars and motorcycles. While this technology is helpful to manufacturing in many…
3D Printing: The Stories We Missed This Week – February 4, 2017
An inventor sends round a mailing to sell his stake in a company, GKN and EOS become BFFs, Xometry secures extra funding, Graphene 3D Lab makes more news, people from…
Additive Industries Re-Opens the Beta for Their Modular Automated MetalFAB1 3D Printing and Manufacturing System
Last year Additive Industries announced a new beta program for their automated MetalFAB1 industrial metal 3D printing system. The MetalFAB1 system is an interconnected group of powder-based metal 3D printing…
UK Collaborative Research Agreement TiPOW to Examine Titanium Aerospace AM Materials
One of the hottest areas of research in the additive manufacturing field is metal materials. With focus especially on creating usable parts for industries like aerospace, investment into research is…
