Youngstown Paves Way for Business Park Featuring 3D Printing Hub

3D printing finds a manufacturing home in a business park in Youngstown, OH. The president of M-7 Technologies, Mike Garvey spoke at the Brookings Institution discussion recently in Washington DC, and his vision spells a lucrative future for private investors…

Remanufacturing with Optomec’s LENS 3D Print Engine

Optomec recently announced that its LENS Print Engine for metal components has been adopted by the Center for Remanufacturing and Resources Recovery (C3R) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). As a result, the system at C3R is all set…

GE Announces the Launch of Mass 3D Printing Facility

GE has begun to enact its plans for the mass production of its 3D printed jet engine fuel nozzles.  At the Farnborough Air Show, today, the company announced plans to outfit its Auburn, Alabama facility for the high volume 3D printing…

Will CraftBot Rival The Biggest 3D Printer Crowdfunding Campaigns?

2013 and 2014 has seen a mushrooming of the number of companies incepting the manufacture of prosumer 3D printers. Despite what some would consider an increasing rate of market saturation for the range of products compared with unit sales, most…

The European 3D Printer Race: German RepRap’s New Software

Europe has seen a new wave of desktop 3D printer manufacturers gaining relatively large funding and developing strong expansion plans this year: Could Zmorph, Zortrax, Ion Core, Leapfrog and co now be seen as a ‘chasing pack’ behind European desktop…

Changing Technologies Explores Entry Into 3D Printing

Changing Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: CHGT), a Washington, DC based full-service Information Technology firm is the latest company to evaluate an entry into the 3D printing sector. Changing Technologies, founded in 1997, is currently in the process of examining 3D printing…

Last Week’s Rally Shows that the 3D Printing Stocks’ Rollercoaster Is Just Beginning

Since I started following the 3D printing industry full time my life has changed completely — and I love it — but that is not the point. I remember the night when I discovered 3D printing’s potential and realized that…

TCT Show + Personalize Will Highlight Wearables With Reebok

At the upcoming TCT Show + Personalize event in October, the organisers will be hosting a breakthrough conference session dedicated to the emergent subject of wearables. Wearables is a term with a few definitions: One being a standard term for…

Groupe Gorge 3D Printer Sales Are Growing

Groupe Gorgé (OTC: GGRGY / GGRGF) has global ambitions for its new 3D printer section. The company has seen a solid foundation for its industrial additive manufacturing machine sales, announcing four sales of industrial 3D printers in the first-half of…

Is This a Future Billionaire? 15-Year-Old Files Patent for His Own 3D Printer

The democratization of technology that has occurred over the past twenty years or so has enabled greater numbers of people to program new apps and build new devices that can increase their quality of life.  When, previously, communities in developing…