The French aerospace company has launched its Aneto 1-k helicopter engine at the Helitech international in London. The Aneto engine brand, which takes its name from the highest mountain in the Pyrenee…
Lifelike 3D printed backbone replicas will prepare surgeons for spinal operations
In manufacturing, 3D printing has been used to create realistic prototypes. Now increasingly the technology is being used in medicine to create replica bone and organ structures to train surgeons. On…
UK additive manufacturing boosted by innovation centers and Royal visit
News from two British manufacturers this week highlights the importance of 3D printing to UK industry. Yorkshire-based steel firm William Cook received a Royal visit at its Precision Foundry from HRH …
Freshmade 3D bowls a strike with tough new AMClad 3D printing material
Freshmade 3D, a digital manufacturing startup based in Youngstown, Ohio, has released a new powder-based isotropic engineered particulate composite (EPC) material that can be 3D printed into strong s…
Farsoon CAMS 3D printer will be “the largest plastic powder bed system”
While 3D printing is currently extensively used for individual part production and protoyping, additive manufacturing on a continuous and industrial scale is not yet available. Farsoon Technologies, a…
Rolls Royce harnesses 10 billion suns to improve metal additive manufacturing
The quest to optimise metal 3D printing is now moving at light-speed in the UK. At the core of the research is a £260 million facility that has previously helped researchers to read the Dead Sea Scrol…
3D printing news Sliced Boeing, Additive Manufacturing Technologies, TCT, Mcor and TRUMPF
Today’s 3D printing news sliced features updates from Boeing, TCT, Additive Manufacturing Technologies, 3D Hubs, Mcor, TRUMPF, Sintavia, Organovo, DuPont, Haydale Graphene, Shapeways, Builder Ex…
3D Printing Industry at Codex 2017 – NASA, Stratasys, EOS, ONO and ApisCor
Every year, Codex invites “scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and visionaries” working at the forefront of technology and innovation to present their conference in London. This year, as part of the …
Fraunhofer institute combines SLM green laser copper 3D printing with robotic LaserTAB technology to micro-join battery cells
The Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology (ILT), based in Aachen, on the France-Germany border, has invented a process combining copper 3D printing technology with their laser-based tape-automated …
Netherlands Royal Navy using Artec 3D scanners for reverse engineering
Since May, Marinebedrijf Koninklijke Marine (MKM), the material and asset maintenance company of the Netherlands Royal Navy, has been using Artec 3D scanners to scan a range of the Netherlands’ naval …