polymers
Experience STEP Technology – A New Additive Entrant
Founded in 2017, Evolve Additive Solutions (Evolve) is a spinout of Stratasys and was awarded an initial $19 million of seed capital from Stanley Black & Decker and The LEGO…
From F1 to Supercars. The Same Innovations, the Same Excellence
Used in the supply of engineering solutions for F1 – Windform materials are now widely employed for the additive manufacturing of functional components at the service of the most iconic…
M. Holland Leads Legacy Injection Molding Users to 3D Printing Technology
Founded in 1950 in the Chicago, Illinois area, M. Holland has grown to become a large North American distributor of thermoplastic resin selling billions of pounds of materials in its…
3D Printed Plastic Parts on Track for $26B in Revenues by 2030
SmarTech Analysis has released its first report dedicated to the plastic 3D printing sector. Its flagship Polymer Parts Produced: AM Applications Market Analysis estimates the production volumes and resulting estimated market…
Swiss EMS Group Picks 3D Systems for New Nylon 3D Printing Material
3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) has announced a partnership with EMS-GRILTECH (SIX:EMSN) to develop new 3D printing materials. Leveraging the polyamide manufacturing expertise of EMG-GRILTECH, a business unit of Swiss chemical company…
Interior Furnishings 3D Printed from Old Drink Cartons Displayed at Milan Design Week
Dutch additive design firm Aectual uses 3D printing to create sustainable, customizable architecture products, like flooring, sound diffusion panels and room divider screens, canopies and pavilions, clothes hangers, and more. The…
XYZprinting and BASF Forward AM Extends Industrial Partnership to Enrich 3D Printing Industry
Earlier in the year, XYZprinting and BASF Forward AM established a successful partnership, now the cooperation is realized across all 3D printing portfolios. “The strengthened collaboration between XYZprinting and BASF…
Each Part a Material: 3D Printing to Modify Material Properties
I’ve mentioned this before in passing, but I think that the point is important enough to devote an entire post to it. With 3D printing, we can control, to a…
3DPOD Episode 51: 3D Printing Materials Deep Dive with 3Degrees Founder Mike Vasquez
After studying at Loughborough and MIT he worked on making snowboard components for Burton, Mike Vasquez started 3Degrees. There, he’s not only a 3D printing consultant but also has his…
3D Printing Webinar and Virtual Event Roundup, October 11, 2020
We’ve got another busy week of webinars and virtual events coming your way! Read on to learn more about what’s available this week. Science in the Age of Experience Over…
Live Entrepreneurship & 3D Value Networks: Sustainability in Food packaging
Sustainability is on everybody’s lips and single use plastics does not have a good reputation. When the public perception is that plastic is all bad, it is hard to remind…
Lazy Manufacturing: Making Things Using Less Energy
A friend took a broken part of his old boat out of his pocket. “Can you fix this?” he asked me. It was a complicated aluminium die-casting from the cold…
Solvay’s Christophe Schramm “We Want to be the Leading Supplier of AM Ready Solutions”
The altogether too youthful Christophe Schramm has headed up Solvay’s 3D printing efforts for the past several years. He’s presided over Solvay’s market entry release of PVDF filament, as well…
Polymers As A Service: More Profits, More Planet?
Plastics are a victim of their success. Easy and inexpensive to make, they have become ubiquitous. Facile to turn into new compounds, to extend through additives or blends, they are…
Innovative Partnerships Drive 3D Printing Materials Development
Successful adoption of additive manufacturing technologies in mass manufacturing requires close partnerships across hardware, software and materials technologies. In order to unlock 3D printing’s full potential and bring the technology…
Marco Valenzuela of Additive Design Studio Makes an Innovative 3D Printed Pipette
Marco Valenzuela is a designer who specializes in crafting innovative and new 3D printed products. Originally coming from the gaming world, his Additive Design Studio now is focused on using Additive…
New Polypropylene Powder with Superior Processing and Part Characteristics for Laser Sintering Process
AM Polymer Research GmbH presents its third series material, a polypropylene powder from the ROLASERIT® family. The developed ROLASERIT® PP01OF1 thus makes this important standard plastic available for laser sintering….
3D Printing News Briefs: November 23, 2018
We’re starting with a little business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs – Intech confirmed its first order for Additive Industries’ MetalFAB1 3D printer, and Roboze CEO Alessio Lorusso has won…
CIPRES Introducing New Industrial Dyeing Machine for 3D Printed Parts at formnext
In 2004, coloring process service provider CIPRES Technology Systems was founded by Carlos Prestien; two short years later, the German company branched out and began offering serial production of SLS 3D printed…
Can Adding Wood Powder and Lubricant Make PLA 3D Printing Materials Stronger and More Flexible?
Plastic is the least expensive, most used 3D printing material out there – as an example, right now on my desk, I have seven little animal figurines, and one tiny…
imec Saves Time and Money with New 3D Printed Chip Cooling Solution
One of the world’s top research and innovation hubs in nanoelectronics and digital technologies is imec, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium with additional offices in Japan and India and distributed R&D groups in…
Collaborative Research Team Develops Bioresin for DLP 3D Printing for Synthesizing Tissue
In typical biofabrication and 3D bioprinting methods, layers of cell-laden hydrogel structures called bioinks are extruded to build functioning biological tissues. But using bioresins laden with cells, instead of bioinks, for lithography bioprinting…
3D Printing News Briefs: March 2, 2018
We’ve got a lot of business announcements for you today in 3D Printing News Briefs, plus some news about software and materials, so let’s dive right in. First, BASF 3D…
Funding Granted to French Medical Device Startup to Industrialize 3D Printable Tissue Reconstruction Polymer Platform
Medical device startup Gecko Biomedical, headquartered in Paris, France, is working on an exclusive platform of innovative, synthetic polymer solutions in the area of tissue reconstruction. The company is dedicated to…
