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3D Printing News Briefs, November 9, 2022: Deep-Learning, X-Ray CT Inspection & More
Kicking off our 3D Printing News Briefs today is the awarding of a Horizon Europe grant to Titomic Europe, and then on to news from ORNL, which developed a deep-learning…
Roboze Breaks Ground on 3D Printing “Supermaterials” Research Center
Roboze, additive manufacturing (AM) original equipment manufacturer, announced that it has begun construction on a laboratory devoted to developing cutting-edge polymers for 3D printing. The 2000 square meter facility will…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Turning Cigarette Butts Into Filament and Recycling PLA into Resin
Today we’re looking at a 3D Printed filter for FDM emissions, cigarette butts turned into 3D printing filament, a promising Indian space startup Skyroot gets $51 million in funding and…
3D Printing News Unpeeled, With GE, GoEngineer, Hyliion, the US Air Force and Bentley
GE sells Hydrogen Fuel Assets to Hyliion, a Bangalore Post Office is to be 3D Printed, GoEngineer Buys CATI, US Air Force opens print center, Bentley Mulliner’s new Batur to offer…
3D Printing News Unpeeled, Live with Joris Peels Thursday 25th of August
Today we discuss an automotive firm buying EOS M290 printers, 3D printed drop outs and recycling 3D printed composites.
New Technique Reduces Metal 3D Printing Waste
In the process of re-using powder for metal 3D printing, splattered metal, known as powder condensate, must be sieved out and disposed of. Now, the Additive Manufacturing Green Trade Association…
6K Expands Metal 3D Printing Powder Line into Europe
6K Additive has announced that the company will be expanding its commercial operations into Europe, naming François Bonjour as its European Sales Director. Bonjour has over 20 years of experience…
Epson to Recycle Metal Scrap into Metal 3D Printing Powders
Seiko Epson Corporation (TSE: 6724, “Epson”) makes everything from watch movements to desktop printers. Given its precision and printing expertise it has long been speculated that the company would enter the…
MolyWorks Obtains ISO: 9001-2015 and AS: 9100AD
MolyWorks has obtained ISO: 9001-2015 and AS: 9100AD certification. ISO 9001 is an international norm for quality management systems. This certification means that it has been independently verified that a…
Design for Disruption: Love and 3D Printing Redundancy
In this ongoing series, we’re looking for opportunities where 3D printing can disrupt large markets with millions of parts by applying new strategies. We’ve looked at how we can design…
Turn IPA Waste Into Clean, Reusable IPA On Site
3D print businesses that use IPA in post-production can easily accumulate gallons of used IPA. Which will create a new task of proper disposal of these chemicals. Used IPA cannot…
Eco Friendly 3D Printing? Designing for Ruins
Sustainability is usually seen as a move towards using recyclable or recycled materials. Some see it as a means of ensuring that the product that you make will be recyclable….
Design for Disruption: Design for Reuse & Resilience
If we are looking to industrialize 3D printing across the board, we will need to deploy new ideas and new strategies. Faced with a new technology, we’re using old thinking…
ASTM’s ICAM 2021: 3D Printing Economics & Sustainability Considerations
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2021 International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (ICAM), hosted by ASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AMCOE) in Anaheim, California. The event,…
Roboze to Begin 3D Printing Circular Economy Program Starting Next Year
Starting in January 2022, Roboze, the Italian-American manufacturer of 3D printers, polymers for additive manufacturing, and composite parts, is starting a circular economy program for its customers. The program will…
Carnegie Mellon University Reinventing Eco-Friendly Architecture with 3D Printed Reclaimed Concrete
Pittsburgh continues to reinvent what it means to be the Steel City, turning to advanced new manufacturing tools and ideas to move toward a cleaner, more sustainable future. Carnegie Mellon…
Watch ‘The Throne’: 3D Printed Toilets Could Be a Huge Boon to Areas Lacking Sanitation
One of the biggest challenges to addressing an issue like the environmental impact of the toilet is that people don’t really like talking about going to the bathroom. Of course,…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 30, 2021: IDM Lab, Weerg, Monocure3D, Carpenter Additive & Link3D, SABIC & Local Motors, Neotech AMT
From a new 3D printer and new materials to integrated software and more, read on for all the interesting stories in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs! IDM Lab Launches PicoFAB…
Eurovision Trophy 3D Printed from Recycled Plastic Showcases Sustainability
Organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Eurovision Song Contest sees performers and artists compete each year from countries that are EBU members, including the Netherlands, France, Israel, Germany, Australia,…
Polymaker and Covestro Make 3D Printing Filament from Water Bottles
3D printing filament firm Polymaker is working with Covestro to make Polymaker PC-r, a recycled polycarbonate. The polycarbonate is sourced from huge 19-liter bottles made by Nongfu Spring. These bottles…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 8, 2021: Thermal Compaction Group, Anrich3D, American University of Sharjah & CyBe Construction
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, a company in Cardiff created a device that can recycle and reuse PPE. A firm in Singapore that 3D prints food has revealed its…
HP & Ford Team to Recycle 3D Printed Waste into Car Parts
In some of the most interesting additive manufacturing news I’ve heard recently, HP and Ford announced that they have teamed up to revolutionize how 3D printing waste is reused in…
Bluesint: Materialise Now Able to Recycle 100% of Sintering Powder for SLS 3D Printing
Even though we in the 3D printing industry often tout our technology’s environmental benefits, we do produce waste. In the case of powder bed fusion (PBF), we produce a lot…
The Brittle Spear Part IV: Reenter the Readymade via 3D Printing
Just to be perfectly clear: from a pure art perspective, I think readymades were a horrible mistake, a distraction, a wrong turn. Duchamp’s Fountain was not one to throw coins…
