silicone 3d printing
ACEO Introduces Multi-Material 3D Printing for Silicones
It was only a little over a year ago that silicone 3D printing became an industrial technology for the first time. Wacker Chemie introduced its ACEO brand and ACEO Imagine Series…
ACEO Officially Launches Open Print Lab: Gain Theoretical and Practical Knowledge of ACEO’s Silicone 3D Printing Technology
Back in 2015, German chemical manufacturing company WACKER CHEMIE AG announced that the ACEO team from its WACKER SILICONES division had developed technology that made it possible to use silicone materials…
LLNL Researchers Use Direct Ink Writing to 3D Print Silicone Metamaterials with Shape Memory Behavior
A research team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has used a direct ink writing (DIW) process to 3D print property-specific, silicone metamaterials that possess shape memory behavior, which technically makes…
ETH Zurich Researchers Use 3D Printing Technology to Create First Silicone Artificial Heart for Testing Purposes
We’ve seen plenty of 3D printed heart models used as helpful surgical planning tools, and 3D printing technology has helped with heart conditions in many other ways, like 3D printed…
More 3D Printing Materials and Methods: Innovation at RAPID 2017 and Beyond
Today is the last day for RAPID + TCT, and it’s been an exciting, packed week that we’ll continue to share news from even after the show closes. Some companies…
University of Florida Develops Silicone 3D Printing Process for Better Medical Implants
A major advance in the medical industry has been the 3D printing of silicone, a fairly recent development. The first industrial silicone 3D printer was debuted last year, though a…
ALT LLC Announces the Development of New Multi-Material Silicone 3D Printing Technology
One of the newest materials to hit the 3D printing market is silicone, which has gone from being a rarity in 3D printing to suddenly being almost everywhere. The first…
Sterne Elastomere Unveils SiO-Shaping 1601 Silicone 3D Printer at K 2016
Silicone 3D printing has been growing quite a bit over the last year. Until recently, the material was nearly impossible to 3D print due to properties that made it incapable…
San Draw Medical Develops Realistic 3D Printed Model for Suture Training
When 3D printing started appearing more frequently in the medical world, it was largely in the form of 3D printed organ models that allowed doctors and surgeons to plan out…
3D Printed Silicone Seals for Fuel Cells Lead to New Service from San Draw
In terms of 3D printing materials, silicone is a relatively new one, but it’s developing quickly. Two months ago, Wacker Chemie introduced the first-ever industrial 3D printer for silicone materials,…
Croatian Cancer Patient Gets New 3D Printed Ear Thanks to the University of Rijeka
Researchers from institutions across the world are working furiously to be the first to 3D print a functional human organ, capable of being transplanted into a patient. We’re not there…
WACKER Announces New Silicone 3D Printing Technology
While several companies have developed 3D printing materials and processes with similar properties capable of simulating silicone, so far 3D printing with actual silicone materials hasn’t been possible. However, 100…
Picsima Technology 3D Prints Directly with Silicone, May Completely Transform the Breast Implant Industry
We live in a world where women are under an incredible amount of pressure, much of it self-imposed, to look like the model on the cover of Sports Illustrated or…
YouMagine Selects Winners of Contest to Create a New 3D Printing Technology
YouMagine, a community of makers who help people remix, share, and learn by making 3D printed items, say they’ve decided on a winning entry for their “Develop a New 3D…
ViscoTec Leverages Their Dosage Technology, Enters 3D Printing Space with Paste Extruder
Every day tens of millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions, of containers are filled with viscous products from a variety of industries, ranging from automotive, to food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and…
