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3D Printing News Briefs, November 23, 2022: ESD-Safe Resin, Edible QR Codes, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, AM Solutions has joined the ColdMetalFusion Alliance, AMFG is partnering with French 3D printing service bureau Erpro Group, and AddUp and the WBA are…
Festo and Solukon Partner for Automated Depowdering of Metal 3D Printed Parts
Robotics firm Festo has partnered with Solukon to develop a solution for the automated depowdering of metal 3D printed parts. The solution will build upon Solukon’s existing Smart Powder Recuperation…
DyeMansion Secures Additional $14M in Series B Funding from New & Existing Investors
German company DyeMansion is known for its coloring and post-processing equipment, such as its three-step Print-to-Product workflow geared toward industrial 3D printing environments. Now, in order to continue transforming and…
NTU Singapore: Robotic Post-Processing System Removes Residual Powder from 3D Printed Parts
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore wrote a paper, titled “Development of a Robotic System for Automated Decaking of 3D-Printed Parts,” about their work attempting to circumvent a significant…
Comparing Surface Finish and Post-Processing Methods for SLM 3D Printed Parts
It’s not easy to produce parts that contain internal cooling channels using traditional manufacturing methods, which makes 3D printing an attractive option for easy, precise integration of these channels –…
Is This the Best Way to Manually Post-Process an FDM 3D Printed Part?
Researchers Jinjin Liu, Hai Gu, Bin Li, Lu Zhu, Jie Jiang, and Jie Zhang from the Nantong Institute of Technology and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of 3D Printing Equipment and Application published a paper, titled “Research on…
Daimler Buses Relies on DyeMansion for Color & Texture Quality in 3D Printed Spare Parts
While it took decades for the rest of the world to catch up, a handful of aerospace organizations, automotive industry leaders, and other innovators have continued to enjoy the inside…
Post-Processing Enabling Additive Manufacturing
Post processing, in one form or another, is an inevitability when using additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, but is particularly critical for serial production applications of AM — both in terms…
3D Printing News Briefs: February 22, 2019
We’ve got some exciting dental news to share first in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs – Stratasys just announced its new full-color dental 3D printer at LMT Lab Day. Moving…
A3DM Technologies and GPA Innova Advancing Post-Processing of Metal 3D Printed Parts with Unique Process
Vermont-based A3DM Technologies, which has long contributed to multiple commercial 3D printing production processes, and GPA Innova, founded in 2015 in Barcelona, recently entered into a collaborative research and development agreement…
Penn State Opens Finishing Lab for Metal 3D Printed Parts
Penn State has been responsible for several intriguing innovations in 3D printing, running the gamut from fashion to bioprinting. Now the university is taking a step forward in metal 3D printing…
3D Printing News Briefs: January 19, 2018
We’re all business today in 3D Printing News Briefs, covering stories about everything from investments, grants, and executives to awards and new machines. SCRA announced an investment in 3D prosthetics…
3D Printing News Briefs: September 1, 2017
For this month’s first edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll be discussing a little business news, then moving to materials, and finishing with something fun to get your weekend…
3D Printing with Essentially No Post-Processing: Rize Rises at RAPID, Sees Future in Growth with New Company President
It’s okay to admit it: you hate post-processing. It’s easier once you’ve admitted it. It’s easier still if you can virtually eliminate the need for it — or at least that’s…
PostProcess Technologies Closes $4 Million Seed Round as Investors Look to Scalable Industrial 3D Printing
It shouldn’t take much convincing for anyone to see how valuable PostProcess’ technology is. Considering the headache involved in removing support materials from 3D printed objects and then smoothing them…
Further Developments Made in Dissolvable Supports for Metal 3D Printed Parts
It’s hard enough to remove supports from many plastic 3D printed parts, but more than one company has been working on developing ways to make plastic support removal easier, to the…
3D Print Smoothing Made Easy with New 3D-CMF Process from Waseda University
I admit that I actually kind of love print lines. I think it’s really neat to be able to see the grooves that indicate where each layer of filament was…
Innovate UK Awards Consortium £624,000 to Develop Next-Gen Automated Intelligent Post-Processing for 3D Printing
As noted by Additive Manufacturing Technologies Ltd (AMT), the post-processing market for 3D printed parts is estimated to grow to £450 million by 2020. We all know that 3D printing technology is…
A Four-Step Guide for a Successful 3D Project
My first 3D printed project was a little bit disappointing. My new innovation looked rough and weak and the 3D model was not functioning well. Obviously, in 2006 we had fewer options for a…
PostProcess Technologies Releases the Hybrid Series Automated 3D Print Post-Processing System
While 3D printing has dramatically sped up the production and manufacturing of prototypes, consumer products and medical implants, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for improvement. Most metal or…