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Sweden’s Prototal Adds Metal 3D Printing with CA Models Acquisition
Sweden-based service bureau Prototal Industries, considered among Europe’s largest polymer manufacturers, has acquired CA Models, a specialist in rapid prototyping based in Stirling, Scotland. This strategic move not only strengthens…
Carcinotech to Fund Mini-Tumors 3D Printing with $5.3M
MedTech startup Carcinotech, which has developed a technology to create tiny, 3D tumor models using cells from patients for cancer treatment, raised a seed investment of £4.2 million ($5.3 million)….
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: October 22, 2023
There’s plenty to do in the 3D printing industry this week! We’ll tell you about events happening all over the world, and webinars about everything from pellet 3D printing for…
Wooden 3D Printed Bee Hive Offers Scottish Honey Bees a Safe Home
Did you know that in Scotland over 100 species of bees have been recorded? Unfortunately, this number doesn’t necessarily mean that the insects are thriving in the country. In fact,…
Rocket Maker Skyrora’s Additive Advantage: Europe’s Largest Hybrid Metal 3D Printer
All-in-one service provider and manufacturer of satellite launch vehicles, Skyrora has created the largest hybrid metal printer of its kind in Europe. By allowing printing and machining on the same…
Orbex to Build Europe’s “Largest” Industrial 3D Printer to Build Rocket Parts
Private launch service provider Orbex is getting ready to send its first rockets to polar orbit in 2022. During the past five years, the innovative UK startup has been developing…
Glasgow Design Students 3D Print Final Year Projects and the Results Are Beautiful
3D printing has become an ideal learning tool that opens up new possibilities, helps students develop new, creative thinking, and prepares them for life and work in the digital age….
Boeing to Open New 3D Printing R&D Facility in Scotland with NMIS
Cash just continues to be infused into 3D printing, particularly in aerospace, with the introduction of new facilities continuing around the world. Now, the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) in…
First Rocket from UK Soil: the Orbex Prime 3D Printed Rocket
In what could be considered a major step forward for the United Kingdom (UK)’s space program, Orbex announced it will be the first company to launch its rocket into orbit…
3D Printing News Briefs, June 3, 2020: Tethon 3D, SolidLine, Scottish Enterprise, Phillips Corporation
We’re telling you about a new material in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by some business news and a military partnership. Tethon 3D is launching a new material, while…
Skyrora’s 3D Printed-Engine Rocket Completes First UK Ground Test in 50 Years
In the 1960s, the British space program forged an initiative that led some of the country’s brightest minds to develop rockets, spaceflight capabilities, and satellites at its largest testing facility….
3D Scanning Reveals Details of Ancient Scottish Standing Stone
On the northeast edge of the town of Forres in Moray, Scotland stands a 21-foot-tall stone known as Sueno’s Stone. Experts have described the stone, which dates back to the…
Skyrora Uses Advanced Manufacturing, 3D Printing for Soon-to-Launch Rocket
In recent years, small satellites, or smallsats, have been in high demand. Less expensive and easier to launch than a full-sized satellite, smallsats and CubeSats can be launched into space…
UK Researchers Continue Work on Nanokick Bioreactor, Progressing Toward 3D Printing Living Bone
The University of Glasgow received a £2.8 million grant in late 2016 in order to develop 3D printed bone for survivors of landmine blasts, which kill roughly 4,300 people each…
3D Printing Helps to Make New Ears for Young Microtia Patients
We’ve seen cancer patients and car crash victims receive 3D printed ears after losing an existing ear, but what about children who were born with an ear that hadn’t completely…
Should Scientists Reconsider the Romer’s Gap? Paleontologist Thinks So, After 3D Scanning Reveals Ancient Tetrapod Fossil Inside a Rock
Most humans enjoy something that is of great importance to our place in the natural history of the world, but that you likely don’t even think about much, unless you’re…
Facial Reconstruction Experts Release Digital 3D Images of Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce, who defeated England’s Edward II in the early 1300s and brought about Scotland’s independence, is back in the 3D printing news headlines again, a little over a year…
Recreating Iron Age Jewelry with 3D Printing
The Orkney Islands are an archipelago off the northern coast of Scotland. Comprised of 70 islands, about 20 of which are inhabited, it has a rich and storied history and…
3D Tech Eases Children’s Fears, Streamlines the Process During Ear Implant Procedure
Undergoing even a routine medical procedure can be unnerving, no matter your age. But for children, whose understanding of rules and confidence in strangers is just developing, it can be…
Downloads from LayerTrove: Make 3D Printing Disappointment a Thing of the Past—From the Space Shuttle to the Hulk
The world of design is vibrant and vast, and ever growing in this futuristic 3D age. It is, however, undeniably overshadowed in many cases by the intrinsic and powerful magic…
Helping Humans & Reducing Animal Testing: Scottish Researchers 3D Print Malignant Brain Tumors
The 3D printing of cells and tissues, along with other new techniques in bioprinting, offer all sorts of new hope to patients around the world with a variety of conditions…
3D Model of Centuries-Old Skull from Battle of Culloden Reveals New Information
Every now and then we have to freshen up on our military history. Why? Because 3D modeling and printing technology is being used to enhance artifact research and produce replicas of weapons used in historic battles. Occasionally it is also used…
3D Imaging of Loch Ness Gives Nessie Believers New Hope
Don’t give up on Nessie just yet. Just because there has been absolutely no proof that she is real and all human capacity for reasoning denies the probability of her existence…
Scottish Researchers are 3D Printing Extremely Delicate Stem Cells
3D printing has gained a strong foothold in numerous areas of the medical industry today, where innovators are making impressive and significant impacts with 3D printed models that help in diagnosing…