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3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: November 10, 2024

We’ve got another busy week ahead of webinars and events around the world! There are multiple open houses and conferences, advanced AM training, a 3D printer launch event, our own…

Dinsmore Gains Ability to 3D Print Functional Stents Thanks to Axtra3D

As essentially everyone familiar with additive manufacturing (AM) knows, one of the greatest advantages of 3D printing technologies is the potential to produce parts with complex geometries that are unachievable…

With New Form 4L 3D Printers, Formlabs Opens Up Material Ecosystem

Traditionally, in 3D printing, there have been both open and closed approaches to printers, software, and materials. Some companies prefer a closed and locked-down system, offering fewer options, more ties…

Protolabs Buys DLP-SLA Combo 3D Printer from Axtra3D

Axtra3D has sold a Lumia X1 to Protolabs, to be installed at the manufacturing service provider’s Raleigh, North Carolina location. The Lumia X1 is a high-throughput vat polymerization system that…

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Kings 3D Breaks Ground on $70M 3D Printing Hub in China

Kings 3D Group, a prominent Chinese additive manufacturing company, has announced the development of a major new 3D printing hub in Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province. The project, which represents an…

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Beyond Chuck Hull’s Legacy: the Unsung Heroes Who Paved the Way for 3D Printing

Next month, we will celebrate a huge anniversary. 40 years ago, on August 8, 1984, Charles Hull filed a patent application for stereolithography: the first additive manufacturing technique in history,…

Hands on with Formlabs’ New Form 4 3D Printer

Thanks to the incredible team over at Formlabs, I was given the chance to test out the new Form 4 and its accessories. To learn more about what sets it…

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Formlabs’ New Form 4 3D Printers Are 2-5X Faster than Form 3+

Formlabs has announced a new addition to its line of stereolithography (SLA) printers for additive manufacturing (AM): the Form 4 and Form 4B. Coming several years after the firm’s previous…

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UnionTech Showcases Innovative RSPro1400 3D Printer at AMUG 2024 with RP America

RP America, a UnionTech reseller, was eager to present the UnionTech RSPro1400 at the AMUG conference from March 10-14 in Chicago, Illinois. This event shined a spotlight on the RSPro1400,…

Axtra3D Welcomes 3D Systems Vet Rajeev Kulkarni as Chief Strategy Officer

In a strategic move to bolster its leadership team, Axtra3D, Inc., an emerging frontrunner in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry, has announced the appointment of Rajeev Kulkarni as the new…

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FDR vs. SLA: The Right Polymer Manufacturing Choice for Your Application

The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has no shortage of acronyms when it comes to the various methodologies of industrial 3D printing. In polymer 3D printing, there are three main methods…

Long Live AM!  Design Impacts of Innovation

At the end of 2023, we saw a lot of conjecture about the demise of 3D printing and rise of Additive Manufacturing (AM).  Tim Simpson and I took the road…

Why Choose Vat Photopolymerization 3D Printing for Your Business

Vat photopolymerization (VP) is a type of additive manufacturing (AM) that uses light to cure a liquid resin into a solid object. It is a popular choice for manufacturing a…

Plug-and-Play 3D Printing: Hands-on with the Form 3+ 3D Printer

When desktop 3D printing emerged a decade ago, the phrase “plug-and-play” was thrown around a lot to describe how user-friendly a given machine was. Nevertheless, none of the original desktop…

Incus Metal 3D Printing Gets Bigger and Faster with Hammer Pro40 System

Austrian 3D printing startup Incus has unveiled the Hammer Pro40, a slurry digital light processing (DLP) solution capable of creating metal parts through a combination of vat polymerization and sintering….

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What Align’s Acquisition of Cubicure Means for Dental 3D Printing

The recent acquisition of Cubicure by American dental giant Align Technology sent a palpable shockwave through the industry, yet in many ways, it was a move that made perfect sense….

Startup Accelerator – Axtra3D Talks the Best of Both Worlds: SLA + DLP 3D Printing

While the world of vat photopolymerization has undergone some serious evolution over the past decade, it’s likely that we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of where…

3D Printing News Unpeeled: Glass and Multi Material SLA

Today we have three exciting research papers to share with you. In a paper in Nature by University of California, Irvine researchers, the mixing of multiple aerosolized materials is discussed….

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Ash’s Declassified Survival Guide to Running a 3D Printing Makerspace

So, you just got a new job running a makerspace, or you’re interested in starting one. Great! But, now what? A makerspace is essentially a place where you make things,…

Axtra3D Brings Hybrid Laser-DLP 3D Printers to Market at Formnext 2022

At Formnext 2021, startup Axtra3D attracted attention for the launch of its Lumia 3D platform, which relies on the company’s patented hybrid photosynthesis (HPS) technology. Now, just in time for…

Formlabs Releases PU Resins

Formlabs released two new polyurethane resins, PU Rigid 650 and PU Rigid 1000, for its Form 2, Form 3, Form 3+, Form 3B, and Form 3B+ printers. These materials are…

Evonik Partners with Asiga to Introduce 3D Printing Resins at AMUG 2022

Polymer company Evonik is a 3D printing pioneer. The company developed materials for power bed fusion (PBF) very early on. It has commercialized key technologies around powders and their manufacture….

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Incus Closes Series A Round for Slurry SLA Metal 3D Printing

Austrian slurry stereolithography (SLA) company Incus has closed a series A round with AM Ventures and is bringing aboard ex-EOS CEO Adrian Keppler as a consultant, as well as investor….

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No rent! No deposit! After-sales service! SLA Manufacturer Vistar Launches a New Cooperation Model for 3D Printing Service Provider

In recent years, with the maturity and popularity of SLA 3D printing technology, more and more industries and customers are adopting this technology, from prototypes to shoe models, from dental…