UK 3D Printing Leader Ion Core Appoints New CEO

Ion Core Technology, the company behind the British-manufactured Zinter Pro 3D printer, has appointed Shane Nelson as Managing Director and CEO. This move comes off the back of growing financial and commercial success, with $10,000,000 to invest thanks to hedge…

Ion Core Makes Big Sale of Zinter PRO Desktop 3D Printers to Airbus Group

UK-based Ion Core, manufacturer of the Zinter line of desktop 3D printers, has just made a big sale.  Like jumbo jet big.  The company will be supplying their Zinter PRO Desktop 3D Printers to aerospace and defense giant Airbus Group. …

Ion Core Zinter 3D Printer Reaches for Mass Appeal with TV Ad

Until we’re all watching programs projected directly into our brains someday, TV broadcasting will continue to be the earmark of mainstream success.  And we’ll know that 3D printing has become integrated completely into our everyday lives when an ad for…

Ion Core’s Zinter 3D Printer Looks to Take On MakerBot and the Cube

With a big influx of cash from some new investors, Ion Core – makers of the Zinter Pro 3D Printer – has set new production goals that would put them in the same league as Stratasys and 3D Systems. But…

Ion Core & 3D Printing Stood Strong in Liverpool at Opening of International Festival of Business 2014

Britain’s biggest business event for more than 50 years opened in Liverpool last week, and is taking place at the British Business Embassy as part of a Government attempt to showcase UK business and innovation and to boost exports and…

Ion Core Wants a 3D Printer in Every UK School

It there is one thing that Anglo-Saxon countries just know how to do better than most other nations it is getting new generations ahead on new technologies. This is often achieved through private and public collaborations to allow young students,…

Ion Core Reports 3D Printer Success at CeBIT

Germany was awash with 3D printing business and innovation last week. While I was covering Inside 3D Printing in Berlin, the same city also hosted a Fraunhofer technical gathering that saw many of the metal 3D printers involved. Over in…

UK Represented By Ion Core and the Zinter PRO 3D Printer In The Third Industrial Olympiad

In the 18th century a small collection of some 6000 islands in the northern proximity of the Atlantic ocean was the unlikely location of possibly human history’s most important first technological leap forward. Those thousands of small islands have a…

3D printed carbon fiber meta-skins improve impact mitigation in foam-core composites

Researchers at San Diego State University’s (SDSU) Experimental Mechanics Laboratory and Advanced Manufacturing Hub have developed 3D printed continuous carbon fiber “meta-skins” designed to improve impact mitigation in composite foam-core structures. Published in Additive Manufacturing Letters, the study by Sean…

Prusa CORE One: Technical Specifications and Pricing

Prusa Research, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers based in Prague, has announced the release of the CORE One, a fully enclosed CoreXY 3D printer featuring active chamber temperature control. This launch represents Prusa’s strategic move to enhance its position…