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17 Top 3D Printing Themes of 2017
2017 has been, by any measure, an eventful year, and as always the end of December brings us to a retrospective season as we look back on all that has…
Nano Dimension, Nexa3D, XYZprinting: Catching Up with 3D Printing Businesses Linked by a Familiar Name
The 3D printing industry, relatively nascent as it is, is a fairly small world unto itself. With rising collaborations around the globe bringing efforts together into shared visions of what…
New Partnerships for Renishaw, Dassault Systèmes Center on Digital Technology
The ADT Foundation was founded in 2010 as an organization dedicated to advancing education in the field of head and neck reconstruction – particularly involving digital technology. One of its main…
Partnerships Give Shining 3D Customers Access to Rhinoceros and Mesh2Surface Software
Shining 3D is known for its line of EinStart 3D printers and EinScan 3D scanneres, both of which it updates with new models on a regular basis. Earlier this year,…
BAE Systems Signs Aerospace Additive Manufacturing Partnership with ASCO Industries
The Eurofighter Typhoon is the most advanced swing-role combat aircraft in the world and is manufactured by a consortium of companies including Alenia Aermacchi (now Leonardo), BAE Systems and Airbus….
Materialise, Siemens, Philips, Stratasys, 3D Systems: Medical 3D Printing Partnerships and Products Introduced at 2017 RSNA Annual Meeting
The 2017 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting is taking place this week in Chicago, and some major 3D printing industry news has already been introduced at the meeting, starting with…
APWORKS and TOYAL Partner to Further Develop and Distribute Scalmalloy Additive Manufacturing Powder
Some time ago, Airbus subsidiary APWORKS developed Scalmalloy. The metal additive manufacturing powder is an alloy of aluminum, magnesium and scandium, compatible with all SLM machines and offering several of…
Stratasys Announces a New Partnership and the Release of GrabCAD Voxel Print Software Solution
The first day of formnext is well underway and the new product announcements have been rolling out at a fast rate. One of the latest comes from Stratasys, which today…
XYZprinting Announces Alliances with Three New 3D Printing Partners
XYZprinting made big news this week when it announced its intention to enter the industrial 3D printing market for the first time, introducing five new 3D printers that include SLS,…
3D Printing News Briefs: November 7, 2017
We’ve got a lot of 3D printing business news heading your way in today’s edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by a 3D printing event, a 3D printed work…
Polar 3D Acquires Interest in Makers Empire to Continue Bringing 3D Printing Technology Education to Schools
As more applications for 3D printing continue to surface, it’s more important than ever to train the future workforce on how to use the technology – this is why so…
3D Printed Silicone and Partnerships in Today’s Business News
Silicone 3D printing is still relatively new. Wacker Chemie introduced the first-ever industrial silicone 3D printer just last year, and since then the technology has grown and spread at a rapid…
BigRep Partners with Heidelberg for Serial Production of the BigRep Studio 3D Printer
BigRep is known for, as its name suggests, big 3D printers. The company realized last year, however, that there is such a thing as too big, and that not all…
Johnson Matthey and voxeljet Collaborate to Develop Ceramic Binder Jet 3D Printing
Chemical company Johnson Matthey has been pursuing additive manufacturing for several years, like many other companies in the chemical industry. Unlike many of its peers, however, Johnson Matthey hasn’t been focusing…
BASF and Poietis Continue Work Toward 3D Printed Skin in Renewed Bioprinting Agreement
Two years ago, chemical company BASF signed an agreement with bioprinting company Poietis regarding the 3D printing of skin for cosmetic testing purposes. BASF wanted to use Poietis’ 3D laser-assisted bioprinting…
3D Printing Business News: Ultimaker, BeAM, Sharebot Raising Capital and Seeing Growth in Operations
With so much growth across business ventures every day, we do our best to keep you apprised of all the latest business news in the 3D printing industry. For today’s…
GKN and GE Additive to Work Together as Partners in 3D Printing
This week is a busy one for GKN, which just announced that it would be creating a new division called GKN Additive to consolidate all of its additive manufacturing activities…
ORNL and Strangpresse Continue 3D Printing Partnership with Exclusive Extruder Licensing Agreement
In 2014, Youngstown, Ohio company Strangpresse was formed to develop and commercialize lightweight, fully controllable thermoplastic extruders for 3D printing. This week, the company was granted an exclusive license for Oak…
3DCeram Expands Ceramic 3D Printing Business with Investment from Sinto Group
Ceramics are a relatively new material in 3D printing, at least on a large scale. One company has been working with the material in 3D printing for over a decade,…
Valve Collaborates with Fans Through New Shapeways 3D Printing Licensing Agreement
3D printing has allowed gamers and fans everywhere to create their own figurines and accessories based on their favorite games, and to do so relatively easily. As we all know,…
CIPRES and AMT Partner Up to Provide High-Speed 3D Print Surface Finishing to European Customers
Surface finishing and coloring post processing solutions are necessary when it comes to producing quality 3D printed parts. In February, Additive Manufacturing Technologies Ltd (AMT) was awarded £624,000 by Innovate UK…
Family of the Future Project Nears 3D Printed Completion
A couple of months ago, nonprofit group Flam3D introduced an intriguing new project: Family of the Future, a collaboration that brought together 29 partner organizations for a project that would showcase the…
German and Canadian Organizations Partner to Develop 3D Printed Contractile Tissue
It’s been a big week for bioprinting, with news of planned 3D printed organs coming from both Prellis Biologics and BIOLIFE4D. The bioprinting world is one that doesn’t slow down, and…
Renishaw and Infosys Team Up to Lower the Additive Manufacturing Entry Barrier
It can be intimidating for manufacturers to adopt new technologies, and even more intimidating to implement them at a large scale. Part of the reason that additive manufacturing hasn’t become…