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Evonik Launches New PEEK Filament for Industrial 3D Printing Applications
As one of the top specialty chemicals companies, with activity in more than 100 different countries around the world, Evonik knows a thing or two when it comes to 3D…
Mosaic Unveils Array: Automated System to Scale Multimaterial, High Temp 3D Printing
With a mission to deliver 3D printing to the factory floor, the Mosaic Manufacturing team has revealed an entirely new automated system expected to revolutionize workflows by creating a scalable…
INTAMSYS Closes Latest Funding Round Led by Sequoia Capital
The pro desktop space has been growing as new fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers emerge with capabilities similar to Stratasys machines at a lower cost. Among the players in…
Jet Car Dragster Gets 3D Printed PEEK Upgrades
Florida company nScrypt makes flexible biomanufacturing, microdispensing, and 3D manufacturing equipment for industrial applications. In turn, we’ve seen the company’s solutions used for a variety of applications, such as bioprinting,…
INTAMSYS’ Complete Line of High Temperature 3D Printers for Manufacturing Real Parts
The hidden AM-market: high temperature plastics With over 1,500 high temperature capable 3D printers installed, INTAMSYS is leading the AM-market for high performance materials such as PEEK, PEKK, PAEK and…
ESA and Zortrax 3D Print PEEK Composites for Built-in Electronics
Polish 3D printing solutions provider Zortrax has been working with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the last year to figure out how to use 3D printing to fabricate high-performance…
3DPOD Episode 39: Roboze Founder Alessio Lorusso and High-Temperature 3D Printing
Alessio Lorusso built his first 3D printer at 17 and went on to bootstrap his company Roboze. His enthusiasm and drive really shine through in this episode of the 3DPod….
3D Printing Chemistry 101: The Molecular Makeup of PAEK, PEKK and PEEK Plastic
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…
INTAMSYS: First Distributor of New PAEK 3D Printing Filament from Victrex
The world of 3D printing materials alone is vast, wondrous, and inspiring—and it continues to expand in parallel with the exploration and innovation of users who often refuse to accept…
Interview with Kumovis: “We Expect Our 3D Printing System… in Many Hospitals in a Few Years”
The potential of 3D printing in the medical industry is still immeasurable. Even though, today, 3D printing for medical devices, personalized implants, and rapid medical prototyping is still in the…
Roboze Starts Distributed Manufacturing Service
Italian OEM Roboze makes high-temperature FDM machines that can print PEEK, PEI, and PA parts. Through enabling high-performance polymers high-temperature printers let people access parts for use in aerospace, automobiles…
Evonik Launches FDM PEEK Filament for Implants
PEEK polyether ether ketone is a high-performance thermoplastic with high continuous service temperatures, strength, and low flame smoke and toxicity. Due to this, it is an oft sought material by…
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…
AON3D Launches the AON-M2 2020: Large Volume 3D Printer Built for High-Performance Thermoplastics
AON3D announces the launch of their AON-M2 2020, the latest industrial 3D printer in their flagship product line. The AON-M2 2020 has been designed to print a continuously expanding array…
Carbon Fiber 3D Printing, Part Four: Matrix Materials
In parts one, two and three of this series, we’ve discussed the variety of technological developments taking place in the 3D printing of composites but have not yet covered the…
3D Printing PEEK Disks Coated with Antibacterial Agents
In the recently published ‘Preparation and Characterization for Antibacterial Activities of 3D Printing Polyetheretherketone Disks Coated with Various Ratios of Ampicillin and Vancomycin Salts,’ Taiwanese researchers are experimenting with innovative…
Ron Faruqui of 3DGence “We’re not trying to sell 3D Printers”
Ron Faruqui is the Americas President of Polish high-temperature FDM 3D printer manufacturer 3DGence. 3DGence came out of nowhere a few years ago with a capable high-temperature machine. Further refinements…
2019 Year in Review: Desktop 3D Printing
In 2019 desktop 3D printing continued its onward march towards greater adoption. And, by now, it doesn’t look all that different from the industrial space, in may ways. New Products…
Formnext 2019, ROBOZE Innovations are Ready to Revolutionise the Additive Manufacturing World
ROBOZE, an international player that designs and produces the most precise 3D printers in the world for industrial applications, is getting ready to amaze Formnext 2019’s visitors with its new…
Arevo to Supply Aqua 3D Printing Platform & Composites to Japan’s AGC, Inc.
Silicon Valley’s AREVO and AGC, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, have recently announced a dynamic partnership, benefitting both companies in manufacturing endeavors. AGC will be the first company to install AREVO’s industrial…
Roboze & Solvay: Partnering to Push the Limits of 3D Printing Polymers
Collaborations are the key to success for many innovators within the 3D printing realm, and especially as hardware, software, and a host of new materials—like specialty polymers from Roboze and…
WASP Bringing PEEK Pellet 3D Printer, and Others, to formnext 2019
Italian company WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project) always manages to surprise me with the multitude of unique 3D printers it develops. At last year’s formnext event, the company introduced its…
Romania: Comparing Additively and Conventionally Manufactured Patient-Specific Cranial Implants
A trio of researchers from Bucharest, Romania completed a multi-centre cohort study, entitled “3D patient specific implants for cranioplasty,” about 50 patients from 10 hospitals with a variety of cranial…
Chinese Startup Meditool Gets Investment From Evonik
Last year Evonik opened a new production line for specialty PA [polyamide] powders at the Marl Chemical Park in Germany, increasing the company’s annual capacities by 50%. It also released a…
