Siemens launches its new AI-powered assistant for industrial engineering
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Industrial manufacturing firm Siemens has unv…
UMaine unveils its largest next-generation polymer 3D printer
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! The University of Maine (UMaine) has demonstr…
Materialise adds novel AM materials to its portfolio
Belgian 3D printing company Materialise has introduced three new materials to its AM portfolio. These materials include Polyamide 12S (PA 12S), Polyamide 11 (PA 11) for Multi Jet Fusion, and Carbon Fi…
Walmart CEO Hints Company's Interest in 3D Printing
Walmart is known for a lot of things: being the largest retailer, public corporation, and private employer in the world, being anti-union, suppressing worker wages, using sweatshops, and, of course, i…
Spor: 3D Printed Solar Power For Portable Devices
The benefits of being able to get online with a smart phone, alongside the multiple applications that work without doing so, are many and varied enough for smart phones to have been the product of the…
Isis One 3D Printer Now Has Two Extruders for Soluble Support
Last year, I wrote an article about a RepRap 3D printer, called the Isis One, that had ticked off some members of the RepRap community. After overcoming the initial reactions from other RepRappers, t…
Former Atari CEO Starts 3D Print Vending Business
David Pierce, CEO of The 3D Box, believes in the commercial viability of 3D printing vending machines. Mr. Pierce is not just anyone. He’s the former CEO of Atari and Executive Vice President at Sony.…
IdeaZoo 3D Prints Ideas Locally in Louisiana
So, even if 3D printers don’t wind up in every home across the world, I believe they’re likely to pop up, along with hackerspaces and service bureaus, in most mid- to large-sized towns and cities. At …
Undercutting Consumables of the Inkjet 3D Printing Market
Sure, 3D prints made with inkjet technology can be quite beautiful to look at, what with all them ‘purty colours’ and all. While functional prototyping is a dominant application of this process, perha…
Maker’s Empire Hopes to Make 3D Printing Easy with Tablet App
When I was little, everything was a button to push. For kids these days, everything is a touchscreen to swipe. Maker’s Empire in Australia has taken advantage of the new generation of tablet-friendly …
Toyfabb Gives us a Glimpse Into a 3D Printed World of Toys
Toys, toys, toys — we love them, we love them. Sounds like the line of a song by Lady Gaga but in truth we all love toys and many in the 3D printing world see toys as the first, mass-market consumer a…
New Ceramic Colours by i.materialise
3D printing service provider i.materialise has released a colourful new range of food-safe ceramic materials. The previous colour choices for ceramic prints were in soft pastel tones, but i.materialis…
LUXeXceL Takes Home “Functional Printing Award” at 2014 FESPA Gala
From FEPSA, the global federation of 37 national associations for the screen printing, digital printing, and textile printing community, LUXeXceL walked away from the Gala Celebration Night in Munich …
Print Impressive: 3D Printing 2D Printing
In the beginning there was the word. And then the word was printed. And that’s what printing was all about. Today, 3D printing can make rocket engines, and soon, human livers. But how about a retro tr…
Call of Duty Opens Doors to 3D Printing but Not Necessarily How You Would Imagine
Rachel, 3dprintingindustry.com’s Editor, knows that the issues related to 3D printed guns fascinate me and that I like to write about the relationship between consumer 3D printing and video games. I e…