A new report from ING, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation, finds that 3D printing could account for over half of all manufacturing within 40 years. Using current figures …
New York City Maker Faire 2017 – the 3D printing perspective
3D Printing Industry can’t be at every 3D printing related event, although we do try! During the past week our full-time reporters have visited the 2017 TCT Show, Codex and New Scientist Live. Even wh…
Digital Metal and the Desktop Metal Effect – a boost to metal 3D printing
This year several new entrants to the metal 3D printing sector have appeared. While the precise approach of each varies, a common theme is inkjet based printing technology and a secondary sintering pr…
TCT Show 2017 – new 3D printers and upcoming launches
3D Printing Industry has been at the 2017 TCT Show in Birmingham all week. Here are some of new 3D printers and the latest technology we’ve seen at the UK’s largest 3D printing trade show. New printer…
Codex event brings world’s top 50 innovations from the industries of the future to London
Next week over 800 CEOs, tech entrepreneurs, scientists, investors and media, from across the world will meet in London for one of the most significant conferences on innovation in 2017. 3D printing w…
iMakr adds metal 3D printing to growing industrial portfolio
3D printing retailer iMakr has announced the addition of OR Laser’s ORLAS CREATOR to their growing range of additive manufacturing solutions. The ORLAS CREATOR was first unveiled at Formnext 2016, and…
HRL 3D prints high-strength aluminum solving ages-old welding problem using nanoparticles
HRL has developed a 3D printing technique for high-strength aluminum alloys. The additive manufacturing method can used with variants of Al7075 and Al6061. The work opens the door to additive manufact…
SLM Solutions announces largest single contract in the history of company
SLM Solutions Group AG, has received an order worth up €43 million ($52M USD). The deal is for 50 machines from the SLM 280 series of metal additive manufacturing machines. The contract will be fulfil…
Sinterit Lisa SLS 3D printer now available at a lower price
The Sinterit Lisa was the first affordable desktop SLS 3D printer. Initially launched in 2015 – after a lengthy period of R&D – the Lisa is now available at a lower price. The price of…
POSTECH research team 3D bioprints novel treatment for Ischemic Disease
A research team at Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has used 3D printing to develop bio-blood-vessels (BBV) from a bioink made of vascular tissue. The results of the work …