vat polymerization
Custom Lab Institute’s 3D Printed Lab Equipment Democratizes Research
In 2018, we reported on an initiative to 3D print lab equipment. Now, seven years later, we are checking in with the Custom Lab Institute to see how the quest…
Xolo Launches the Xube2 Volumetric 3D Printer
Xolo has launched the Xube2, a volumetric 3D printer designed for scientific research. The machine allows users to switch between 375 nm and 405 nm light sources and adjust resolutions….
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…
An Intertwined Future: 3D Printing Nanocellulose
Nanocellulose is an exciting new group of materials that could be widely used in manufacturing. Nanocellulose, also called nano cellulose, cellulose nanofibers (CNF), cellulose nanocrystal (CNC), and microfibrillated cellulose (MFC),…
OCEAN 3D Printer from Azul3D Prints at 300 mm per Hour
Azul 3D has a LAKE 3D printer and now the firm has expanded with the Ocean. The OCEAN has an 812 mm x 812 mm build area and is meant…
3D Printing Unpeeled: Biofuel Waste to Filament & Sustainable Photopolymers
I can’t ever remember a day with so many potentially high impact news stories have come out. In one story, we all know that there are problems with the safety…
Tethon 3D Releases Cost-effective Bioprinter
Tethon 3D, known for its ceramic-loaded DLP materials, custom resins, and DLP 3D printers, has recently released a bioprinter. Vat polymerization printers like DLP systems have been widely used by…
Sprybuild Automates Resin 3D Printing with Continuous Platform
Sprybuild is based in Israel but staffed by engineers who came from Ukraine due to the war. The company aims to increase the yield of vat polymerization 3D printers by…
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….
Exclusive Interview: Porsche Design on 3D Printing Shoes with Puma
Just recently Porsche Design and Puma collaborated on the design of a new shoe, the 3D MTRX. The athletic footwear uses vat polymerization to make a lattice sole with high…
Porsche and Puma Release 3D Printed Sneaker
Puma has worked with Porsche Design on the 3D MTRX TRAINERS, $430 sneakers featuring a lightweight, stable, cushioning 3D printed sole and an upper made of leather with carbon fiber…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Multimaterial DLP Through Centrifugal Force
Jianxiang Cheng along with a team at the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Soft Mechanics & Smart Manufacturing of theSouthern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen today have presented a real…
3DPOD Episode 132: Metal Slurry SLA with Arian Aghababaie, Co-Founder and President, Holo AM
Prior to establishing precision metal 3D printing firm Holo, Inc., Arian Aghababaie founded a firm dedicated to building a digital light processing (DLP) 3D printer. That startup was quickly acquired…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Waseda and NTU Develop New Plastic Metal 3D Printing Process
Researchers from Waseda University and the Nanyang Technological University have worked together on a combined vat polymerization and electroless plating method that could make metal and polymer combined structures. This…
New Acquisition Gives Lithoz Three Ceramics 3D Printing Technologies
Austria’s Lithoz is adding to its ceramic 3D printing portfolio though the acquisition of CerAMing, a German startup that has pioneered a process it calls layer-wise slurry disposition (LSD). The…
MIT Researchers 3D Print Plasma Sensors Using Glass-Ceramic Material
A team of researchers from MIT fabricated what they say are the first fully digitally manufactured plasma sensors, known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs), for orbiting spacecraft. Satellites use this…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 16, 2022: Business, Medicine, & More
We’re starting with business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Mantle recently announced three collaborations, Stratasys is strengthening its infrastructure in France with a partnership and e-store, and the…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 11, 2021: 3D Printers, Materials, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting off with three new large 3D printers, before moving on to some new materials. Finally, we’ll end with serial 3D printing of…
AM Ventures Invests in Metal DLP 3D Printing Firm MetShape
Langer Group capital fund AM Ventures has invested in MetShape, a company focused on vat polymerization-based indirect metal manufacturing technology. The startup works with Incus, a spinout of Austrian ceramics…
3D Printing a Pedalution, Part Six: Relevant 3D Printing Technologies for Bike Production
We’ve now seen how 3D printing can be used in bicycles, and in components. We’ve had a look at the most likely scenarios for 3D printing adoption and the preconditions…
Evonik Enters Photopolymers Segment with New 3D Printing Materials
Within the last couple of years, specialty chemicals company Evonik revealed that it was organizing a range of ready-to-use AM materials, from its Additive Manufacturing Innovation Growth Field, under the…
Quantifying and Predicting Energy Consumption of Desktop 3D Printers
As the Earth continues to turn, more people are born, and more things are invented and manufactured, global energy consumption will obviously go up, not down. Burning fossil fuels is…
Tiny 3D Printed Rocket Thruster Could Democratize Nanosatellites
A study out of MIT shows the first proof of concept for a 3D printed electrospray rocket thruster, built to help nanosatellites navigate orbit. Not only is the new thruster…
3D Printing 2021 Market Outlook: Pro Vat Polymerization Systems (SLA,DLP)
A cut above desktop systems, the pro market was always aimed at the sophisticated designer or consumer and small businesses. Increasingly, these systems are used for production in casual, series…
