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Nexa3D Teams with Headmade Materials to Enable Metal 3D Printing on QLS Systems
Nexa3D has teamed up with Headmade Materials to add metal 3D printing to its fast QLS series of 3D printers. The partnership introduces ColdMetalFusion, an innovative metal 3D printing process,…
Lockheed Orders Titanium Plate from 3D Printing Materials Company IperionX
IperionX, a Charlotte, NC-based metals supplier specializing in titanium powders for additive manufacturing (AM), announced that the company has received an order for titanium plate components from defense giant Lockheed…
UK’s Royal Air Force Assesses Potential of 3D Printed Metal Parts for Aerospace
The UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is currently in the process of assessing the quality of metal aerospace components produced with additive manufacturing (AM), as part of a UK Ministry…
GKN Soars into 3D Printing with New DED Metal 3D Printer and Materialise Partnership
The 2023 Paris Air Show saw GKN take yet another major step forward, with the third iteration of its directed energy deposition (DED) 3D printer. At the event, the British…
IperionX Wins US Air Force Challenge to Turn Titanium Scrap into 3D Printing Metal
IperionX, a Charlotte-based mining company that manufacturers titanium powders for additive manufacturing (AM), announced that it has won the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Grand Challenge #4 contract for titanium…
Luxury Giant Richemont Pursues 3D Printed Watches via Panerai Brand
The consumer goods market is just now beginning to see minor penetration by additive manufacturing (AM) technology. The entry point seems to be luxury products, with the latest company to…
ORNL and IperionX Team to Explore 3D Printing Parts with Low-Cost Titanium
Titanium remains the most popular material in metal 3D printing. However, it’s also the most expensive. IperionX (NASDAQ: IPX, ASX: IPX) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seek to change…
PyroGenesis Now Producing Metal 3D Printing Powders at Scale
PyroGenesis Canada Inc.(TSX: PYR) has long been working to develop additive manufacturing (AM) feedstock using its own plasma atomization technique. Now, the company has announced that it has increased its…
Aussie Transport Companies Adopt Cold Spray Metal 3D Printing
Titomic (ASX: TTT) has previously sold its Kinetic Fusion technology to the marine, defense, and aerospace sectors for a variety of applications, including drones. Now, the Aussie company reports that…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 5, 2021
Buckle up, it’s a busy week of webinars and events ahead! From oxygen content in titanium grades and 3D printed orthotics and prosthetics to saving money in the GrabCAD Shop…
“Low Carbon” Titanium for Metal 3D Printing Explored by EOS
The 3D printing industry loves titanium. This is largely due to the fact that the aerospace segment drove the development of metal 3D printing and prefers this metal for its…
Optomec Receives $500K Contract from USAF for Additive Repair of Jet Engine Components
Metal and electronics 3D printing solutions provider Optomec was awarded a $1 million contract from the US Air Force in late 2020 to create and install a high-volume additive repair…
Norsk Titanium Launches IPO for DED Metal 3D Printing on Euronext Growth Stock Market
Another day, another announcement for an initial public offering. This time, the company with plans to go public is Norwegian firm Norsk Titanium, which listed on the Euronext Growth Oslo…
3D Systems Introduces 3D Printed Polymer-Metal Guides for MF Surgeries
3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) has long been breaking ground in the personalized medicine space with its Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP), which can help reduce the amount of time that patients…
Huaxiang Uses Farsoon to 3D Print Personalized Porous Spinal Cages
Even though China 3D prints thousands of orthopedic implants, mainly in titanium, personalized orthopedics and interbody spinal fusion devices made with 3D printing are still relatively new there and elsewhere….
CERN & 3D Systems 3D Print Parts for the Large Hadron Collider
As a team of skilled researchers outside of Geneva, Switzerland work to discover the physical principles underpinning our existence, they occasionally run into a snag here and there. Such was…
Two Lasers Can Now Work on One Part: Premium Aerotec Certifies GE Additive Metal 3D Printing for Airbus
Airbus subsidiary Premium Aerotec will use GE Additive’s newly validated multi-laser Concept Laser M2 system to produce titanium components for the Airbus A320 airliner family. An aerospace supplier, Premium Aerotec…
Recycling Titanium Chips for Metal AM Could Cut CO2 Emissions by 80%
During traditional CNC machining processes, most raw titanium material is wasted. For instance, in the case of machining large parts for aircraft structures results in over 90 percent material waste….
China: Testing Titanium Alloy Scaffold Mimicking Trabecular Structures
Chinese researchers are looking further into the uses of titanium in bioprinting, outlining their findings in the recently published ‘Mechanical behavior of a titanium alloy scaffold mimicking trabecular structure.’ Five…
The State of 3D Printing in Industrial Goods, Part Five
After exploring the end users, manufacturers and service bureaus involved in the 3D printing of parts for general industrial applications, we’ll be taking a look at the metal materials that…
Interview on 3D Printing in New Zealand with Bruno Le Razer of Zenith Technica
Bruno Le Razer probably has the coolest name in 3D printing. He definitely has a lot of 3D printing experience. He has done years of 3D printing research followed by…
Metal Printing with 3D Systems On Demand Services
Metal 3D printing has taken flight in the popular imagination over the past years, but what can businesses do with metal printing today? What kind of parts make sense in…
Top 10 3D Printing Aerospace Stories from 2018
3D printing has played an important role in many industries over the past year, such as medical, education, and aerospace. It would take a very long time to list all…
Titomic Signs MoU with China’s Lasting Titanium to Secure Supply of Metal 3D Printing Powders
Titomic, a top metal 3D printing company in Australia well known for its innovative Kinetic Fusion technology, announced that it has just signed its latest Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), this…
