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LEAM’s Clever Add-On Solution Is Making Large-Scale 3D Printing Work Smarter, Not Harder
Instead of creating new 3D printers, German startup LEAM Technologies upgrades existing large-format machines. Its proprietary Directed Energy Material Extrusion (DEMEX) system uses advanced light-emitting diodes (LED)-based technology to solve…
3D Printing News Briefs, November 23, 2024: Formnext Awards, Batch Production, & More
We’re covering a variety of stories in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, from the Formnext Awards to metal additive manufacturing for batch production and more. Read on for all the…
Optomec’s New Metal 3D Printer Equipped with Siemens SINUMERIK ONE
Optomec has long been engaged in large-scale repair and manufacturing with its version of directed energy deposition (DED), LENS, as well as its AerosolJet process. The company’s capabilities include machines…
AM Summit 2024 Focuses on Sustainable 3D Printing
I was excited to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark recently to attend Scandinavia’s largest additive manufacturing (AM) conference, the AM Summit, put on by the Danish AM Hub. This was the…
Get an Exclusive Discount on Your Ticket to AM Summit and Learn About Future Technologies
The countdown has officially begun! On October 24th, AM Summit 2024 will open its doors at Øksnehallen in Copenhagen for Scandinavia’s largest and leading conference on Additive Manufacturing/Industrial 3D Printing,…
Dubai to 3D Print Electric Passenger Boats
A year ago, we reported that Dubai was working on 3D printing its iconic Abras, the wooden boats that have been used for many years to ferry passengers across the…
3D Printing Is Key to the New Energy Space
While it’s difficult to observe from the standpoint of a subjective individual, human society is currently undergoing a fundamental transformation. Driven primarily by resource depletion and lack of deeper economic…
Siemens Increases Attention on US 3D Printing Landscape
Global industrial giant Siemens has announced that the company is taking steps to help bolster the US additive manufacturing (AM) industry. The efforts will surround Siemens’ Charlotte Advanced Technology Collaboration…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: April 7, 2024
Webinars and events in the 3D printing industry are picking back up this week! Sea-Air-Space is coming to Maryland, and SAE International is sponsoring a 3D Systems webinar about 3D…
$1.1M Grant to Drive Q5D’s Automated Wiring Tech
Q5D, a UK-based company, specializes in creating an automated wire harness robot cell. The firm has recently received a $1.1 million grant to further automate its CY1000 wiring solution. For…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: February 4, 2024
It’s going to be another exciting week of 3D printing webinars and events, starting with our own Additive Manufacturing Strategies in New York City! Speaking of events, AMUG is holding…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: A Drone in a Drone, Soft Magnetic Motors
Elkem, known in 3D printing as a developer of 3D printed silicone materials, has made a soft magnetic material. As a part of the EU´s SOMA project, Elkem, along with…
Streamlining 3D Printing: HP’s Global Head of Polymers Discusses the AM I Navigator Initiative
As happens every year at Formnext, the world’s largest 3D printing trade show, a number of different significant product launches, mergers, and other announcements took place at Formnext 2023. Perhaps…
Sony Joins the VR, AR, XR Headset Race
Sony, typically either too early or too late to the party, has now entered the augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) space with its mixed reality (XR) headset featuring see-through 4K OLED Microdisplays….
Siemens and ORNL 3D Print 25-pound Turbine Blade with WAAM
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in collaboration with Siemens Technology, has used metal 3D printing to create large, rotating steam turbine blades for power plants. This feat, achieved through wire…
How 3D Printing Can Speed up Biden’s $30B Rail Strategy
In a groundbreaking move, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has announced a monumental $8.2 billion investment in 10 passenger rail projects spanning the nation, including high-speed…
Siemens and Stratasys to Boost CT Scanning Efficacy with 3D Printing
3D printing stalwart Stratasys Ltd. (Nasdaq: SSYS) has partnered with Siemens Healthineers to advance medical imaging phantoms used in computed tomography (CT) imaging. The partnership aims to harness 3D printing…
Siemens, BASF Forward AM, HP, EOS & DyeMansion Announce AM Industrialization Navigator at Formnext 2023
At Formnext 2023 (November 7-10 in Frankfurt, Germany), a group of five 3D printing powerhouses announced a collaborative effort to standardize a model for technical maturation. Called the Additive Manufacturing…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Ricoh and Siemens, Programable Microstructure and Medicated Ear Implants
In an exciting paper from Nature Communications, Shubo Gao, Zhi Li, Steven Van Petegem and a whole host of other people at Singapore’s A stars, NTU but also the Paul Scherrer…
Ricoh & Siemens Collaborate on Aluminum Binder Jetting for 3D Printing Mass Production
Two powerhouses in additive manufacturing (AM) and global industry at-large, Ricoh and Siemens, have started collaborating to leverage Siemens Digital Industries Software and the Siemens’ Additive Manufacturing Network for Ricoh’s…
Boeing and ASTRO America 3D Print Rotor System for Apache Helicopter
Aerospace/defense giant Boeing, along with think tank Applied Science and Technology Research Organization (ASTRO) America, announced that they have collaborated to 3D print a main rotor link assembly for Boeing’s…
With €2B Investment, Siemens Is All-in on Industrial Metaverse & China
Last week, I wrote about how Xi’an Bright Laser Technology’s (BLT’s) activity in 2023 highlights that the identical shift toward digitalization is happening just as quickly in China as it…
Bright Laser Technologies Signals the Metal 3D Printing Trajectory of Chinese Heavy Industry
In April, 2023, Xi’an Bright Laser Technologies (BLT), one of China’s leading developers and suppliers of laser powder bed fusion (PBF) machines, broke ground on a nearly two-million-square-foot additive manufacturing…
CDFAM Symposium: Dedicated to Exploring Computational Design and Additive Manufacturing
CDFAM, a two-day symposium scheduled for June 14-15, 2023, promises to bring together leaders in the fields of Computational Design and Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) at the Newlab in…