oil and gas
AMS Spotlight: Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions
Who has the largest metal 3D printing capacity in North America? Lincoln Electric, at least according to the company itself. This may come as a surprise, with the most expected…
Immensa Lands $20M Funding Round for 3D Printing Digital Inventory Suite in MENA
In an impressive stride forward, United Arab Emirates (UAE) 3D printing business Immensa has recently secured $20 million in Series B funding. This latest round sets the stage for its…
Norwegian Oil Leader 3D Prints Critical Subsea Part
Amid rising resource scarcity and the urgent need to lower greenhouse gas emissions, the concept of circular economy is growing in importance. Countries are initiating plans to make their economies…
Shell Certifies 3D Printed Valve from Bonney Forge
The international classification society DNV has issued CE certification to Shell and US-based manufacturer of fittings and valves, Bonney Forge, for a 3D printed gate valve. Shell and Bonney Forge…
Australia’s 3D Printing Market is Starting to Hit its Stride
Three announcements that have become typical for Australia’s small but increasingly significant 3D printing market all happened within a few days of each other. First, Titomic, a manufacturer of cold…
Canada Announces over $20M to Help BC Businesses Access 3D Printing
At the end of July, the Canadian government announced it will disburse over $20.8 million in funding intended to make it easier for research organizations and businesses in British Columbia…
Why the Velo3D Platform is Optimal for AM-Enabled Tooling Production
In a previous post, I began to summarize a Velo3D white paper, “How Additive Manufacturing is Transforming Tooling”, which details the use of the Velo3D Sapphire platform in printing die…
3D Printing Activity in Saudi Arabia Poised to Grow with $15M Immensa Facility
At the end of June, Immensa, a Saudi Arabian additive manufacturing (AM) service bureau, opened a new $15 million facility in Dammam, the fourth-largest city in the Kingdom of Saudi…
AM Drilldown: Canadian Carbon Credits Could Fuel 3D Printing and More
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled the country’s latest budget, which offers $16.4 billion in tax credits for clean tech manufacturing, clean electricity and hydrogen over the next five years,…
Shell Makes Its Case for 3D Printing in the Oil & Gas Industry
Oil & gas majors are at what is perhaps the greatest crossroads in their history, with the largest fossil fuel conglomerates bringing in record profits, receiving record amounts of social…
Logistics Firm Cave Holdings Joins Roboze Network to 3D Print Parts in Guyana
Roboze, a 3D printing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and materials supplier with headquarters in Italy and Texas, announced that Cave Holdings USA, of Virginia, has joined the Roboze 3D Parts…
Velo3D Validates Distributed 3D Printing for Oil and Gas
One of the competitive edges inherent in additive manufacturing (AM) that giant global corporate operations seem most intrigued by is the potential to create distributed supply chains. At the same…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Spare Parts for Oil and Gas, High Capacity Batteries
Oman´s PDO has worked with Spare Parts 3D to evaluate and score 150,000 spare parts on costing and printability. This showcases the significant potential for 3D printing in MRO and…
Formnext 2022: The Most Important Takeaways
Formnext 2022 was a fantastic, truly global show with attendees from all over the world. Messago Messe Frankfurt suggests that the event saw 29,581 attendees and 802 exhibitors from from…
The AM Drilldown: 4 Ps to Watch for in Q4
The end of the fiscal year has officially started, and the global economy’s trajectories seem poised to continue in 2023 on much the same volatile track they’ve been on for…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: October 2, 2022
In today’s 3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup, Markforged and Stratasys both continue their tours, but are also holding additional webinars this week. Desktop Metal is holding a webinar about…
AM Drilldown: Opportunities for 3D Printing in Canada
According to Credit Suisse (PDF), Canada is the ninth wealthiest nation on the planet, representing about 2.4 percent of the globe’s riches. Though it falls far below the U.S. (30…
American Petroleum Institute Announces New 3D Printing Standard for Suppliers of Oil & Gas Parts
Standardization is perhaps the most significant element involved in the transition of the additive manufacturing (AM) market from startup to scale-up. For a variety of reasons, this state-of-affairs is best…
Roboze Breaks Ground on 3D Printing “Supermaterials” Research Center
Roboze, additive manufacturing (AM) original equipment manufacturer, announced that it has begun construction on a laboratory devoted to developing cutting-edge polymers for 3D printing. The 2000 square meter facility will…
The AM Drilldown: Natural Gas & the Rising Price of 3D Printing Inputs
In the first installment of this series, I discussed the relationship between additive manufacturing (AM) and energy returned on energy invested (ERoEI). The crux of that article was that the…
3D Printing News Unpeeled, Live with Joris Peels Wednesday 24th of August
We’re talking today about Shapeways getting a warning from the NYSE, 3D printed glow in the dark camouflage made using Direct Write, a grant to develop a blue laster 3D…
Austrian Ceramic 3D Printer OEM Lithoz Reports Strongest First Half Ever
Over the past year, companies in the additive manufacturing (AM) sector seem to have endured a longer slog through dismal financial territory than the one faced by companies in all…
The AM Drilldown: 3D Printing’s Energy Returned on Energy Invested
The main macroeconomic problem that industrialized nations have always faced is that, in industrialized economies, monetary value is tied to the inherently volatile, supply/demand-driven fluctuations of specific groups of commodities….
Roboze Announces PRO Series of 3D Printers for PEKK and CF
Roboze, manufacturer of end-to-end additive manufacturing (AM) platforms, has announced the release of its latest machines, the One PRO and Plus PRO. Roboze made the announcement at this year’s AM…
