rare earth elements

Additive Drives Raises Funding as Electric Motor Makers Look Beyond Rare Earths

Nordic Alpha Partners has invested in Additive Drives. This will help accelerate the company’s mission to develop better 3D printed electric motors. Through making lighter, rare-earth element-free engines, Additive Drives…

IperionX Receives Another $25M in U.S. Government Funding to Scale Domestic Titanium Powder Production

Earlier this year, IperionX, the U.S. critical minerals supplier specializing in building a domestic titanium supply chain, announced that it had been awarded a Department of Defense (DoD) Industrial Base…

ORNL Continues Developing DuAlumin-3D

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has reported progress with DuAlumin-3D. The team has said that, “DuAlumin-3D outperforms traditional alloys, which are prone to cracking during laser powder bed fusion processing,…

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Is There a 3D Printing Opportunity in Rare Earth Metals?

For the past decade, voices have been heard exclaiming of a crisis in rare earths. Now, with Chinese restrictions on the exports of Rare Earths, a crisis foretold a thousand times…