powder bed fusion
Push Button Metal, Part 3: More Metal 3D Printing Players in an Evolving Space
A quiet revolution in low-cost metal printing is building and growing, mostly hidden from view. Previously we outlined what typified these companies and we had a look at a number…
Arkema Buys 10% Stake in Serial 3D Printing Firm ERPRO 3D FACTORY
Investment activity in 3D printing companies is at an all time high. One family of strategic investors that are funding across the 3D printing market are polymer companies. Covestro (DSM),…
Farsoon Unveils Dual Fiber Laser 403P Powder Bed Fusion 3D Printer
Farsoon came out of the shadows a few years ago. The Chinese powder bed fusion company had been operating in China for years before crossing into Europe and America. Patent…
INDEX Buys Controlling Stake in One Click Metal
Machine tool manufacturer INDEX acquired a controlling majority interest in One Click Metal, part of a new breed of low-cost metal printing companies. Offering accessible $100,000 powder bed fusion systems,…
FABULOUS Releases BLUE CARE Food-Safe Material for Powder Bed Fusion 3D Printing
While we often talk about how PLA, or polylactic acid, is a pretty eco-friendly 3D printing filament, as it’s made from a variety of different plant products like corn and…
Laser Wars: ScanLAB to Democratize Powder Bed Fusion?
We’ve all been a party to the laser wars, in which a tiny clique of powder bed fusion firms are outdoing each other on seeing how many lasers they can…
AMUG 2021: DyeMansion and Stratasys to Deliver Total Solution for 3D Printing and Finishing SAF Parts
As a new powder bed fusion process, Stratasys’s new selective absorption fusion (SAF) technology promises to deliver high-volume parts at attractive prices. Upon announcing its first SAF system alongside two…
VELO3D Going Public Will Take Metal Powder Bed Fusion to New Territory
Over the last six months, the additive manufacturing industry has been riding a wave not seen in a decade. In March, the rumors that VELO3D—one of the youngest companies in…
RusAT Unveils Line of Lasers for Metal 3D Printing
Just on the heels of our discussion with Russia’s Rusatom – Additive Technologies (RusAT), the company has announced that, working with the All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF), it…
Stratasys Announces New Powder Bed Fusion 3D Printing Tech, SAF
In January, Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) completed its acquisition of resin-based Programmable PhotoPolymerization (P3) technology startup Origin, before introducing its new color-free PolyJet J850 Pro in February. Just a few weeks…
Primus Aerospace Purchases VELO3D 3D Printer for Hollow Fuel Tanks
Defense contractor Primus Aerospace announced that they have bought VELO3D’s Sapphire powder bed fusion (PBF) printer. The Sapphire is unique for its ability to print low angles and without the…
Push Button Metal: Players in Low-Cost PBF Metal 3D Printing
As you may have learned from part one of this series, there is a 3D printing metal evolution that has been going on for the past two years. Aside from…
Seurat Aims to Disrupt Metal 3D Printing with 2 Million Lasers
3D printing company Seurat is named after pointillist painter Seurat because, like him, the company wants to work pixel by pixel. Rather than trace a laser over the whole build,…
Autodesk Aims to Democratize Simulation for 3D Printing with Fusion 360 Extension
As discussed at Additive Manufacturing Strategies, more advanced software is going to be key to driving the adoption of 3D printing in part by digitizing tribal knowledge, as Todd Grimm…
WeMatter Atmosphere Module Improves SLS 3D Printing
WeMatter is a Swedish startup trying to make low-cost powder bed fusion (PBF) a reality. The company now has launched the Atmosphere module. This connects to their Gravity printer and…
3D Printing Market Outlook 2021: Powder Bed Fusion and Multi Jet Fusion, Part 1
Polymer powder bed fusion printers have been a mainstay of the 3D printing world for many years now. These highly productive machines dominate the service bureau installed base and are…
Visitech Launches First-of-its-Kind DLP for Powder Bed Fusion 3D Printing
In my round up of virtual booth visitations at Formnext, I briefly touched on an exciting new innovation from Visitech Engineering, a Norwegian manufacturer of digital light processing (DLP) systems…
SmarTech Analysis: Annual 3D Printed Eyewear Revenues to Reach $2.3 Billion by 2030
The latest AM market research report, titled “Markets for 3D Printing Eyewear 2021“, from SmarTech Analysis focuses on the adoption of 3D printing in the eyewear sector. This includes not…
Laser Wars: 3D Systems Working on Nine-Laser, 1m x 1m x 600mm Metal 3D Printer
Yes, yes, yes: the laser wars are here! For years everyone had single-laser powder bed fusion (PBF) systems. Then, there was double and, for a few years, quad-laser systems were…
Fabrisonic Merges Metal Powder Bed Fusion with Ultrasonic 3D Printing for Large, Complex Part
Ohio-based company Fabrisonic developed a unique Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) process, which uses ultrasonic sound waves to merge layers of metal foil together in a solid-state. Its hybrid 3D printing process…
VELO3D Launches New 8-Laser Sapphire XC Metal 3D Printer
Velo3D announced today that it has launched the new Sapphire XC metal 3D printing system. The company states that it already has 13 advanced orders for the machine, touting a…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 10, 2020: Xometry, 3DEO, PostProcess Technologies, Digital Manufacturing Centre
We’re all business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Xometry has made two new appointments to its board of directors, and 3DEO announced another shipment milestone. PostProcess Technologies has a…
ASTM Drives 3D Printing Standards via Investment into Eight Crucial Projects
Nonprofit organization ASTM International announced its third round of funding to support research that will help expedite standards in additive manufacturing (AM). The group creates and publishes technical standards for…
3D Printing News Briefs, September 12, 2020: DSM, MakerOS, Evolve Additive Solutions, & Print Parts Inc.
3D Printing News Briefs runs the gamut today from materials and software to business. First, DSM is announcing a new food-safe 3D printing material, and MakerOS has a new software…
