Jabil, a global manufacturing services company, has achieved significant cost and time reductions for low-to-medium volume manufacturing by integrating Ultimaker 3D printers at their Auburn Hills faci…
Sydney microfactory upcycles e-waste into 3D printer filament
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, is turning electronic waste into 3D printer filament. In what the university is calling a world first, a microfactory for the sorting and recycling…
U.S. Air Force advancing hypersonic flight vehicles with 3D printed ceramics
The U.S. Air Force is advancing the development of hypersonic flight vehicles with 3D printed ceramics. The research into applications for the 3D printed ceramic, silicon oxycarbide (SiOC), is conduct…
UK’s first additive manufacturing apprenticeship launching this September
This September, the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), based in the UK, will launch what are described as the UK’s first additive manufacturing apprenticeships, with the goal of addressing skills …
Roboze unveils new state-of-the-art headquarters
Roboze, an Italian manufacturer of industrial 3D printers, has unveiled new headquarters in Bari, Southern Italy. The headquarters are part of Roboze’s plan to quadruple production capacity. An R&…
3D Printing news Sliced, Ripple, Verizon, HP and Hyundai
Today’s Sliced asks the following questions: What is Verizon doing to bring 3D printing to education? How can 3D printing help detect diseases? And what does the cryptocurrency have to do with 3…
April Fools’ round-up: the best 3D printing jokes
April Fools’ has come and gone, but not without companies from across the 3D printing industry celebrating the day with their best attempts at 3D printing related pranks and jokes. Below is a round-up…
US Navy metal 3D printing for battleships
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is bringing the Navy closer to 3D printing metal parts for vital air, ground and sea platforms. The ONR has awarded Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) a …
MIT Researchers inspired by “kirigami” to 3D print better bandages
Researchers at MIT have perforated elastomer film with “kirigami” slits using 3D printed molds to improve the adhesiveness of the film. Kirigami is a variation of origami that involves folding and cut…
Carnegie Mellon University researchers publish designs for open-source 3D bioprinter
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an open-source, low-cost 3D bioprinter. They have published a paper in HardwareX with the complete instructions for the installation of a syrin…