Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
MTC leverages AMCM’s unique multi-laser beam shaping system
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has acquired the AMCM M 290-2 FLX, an industrial 3D printing system from AMCM, a company affiliated with EOS…
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
Good News for Concert Halls and Submarines: Duke Engineers Demonstrate 3D Printed Acoustic Cloaking
Duke engineers demonstrated acoustic cloaking through rigorous research and metamaterials. The designers set out to create a 3 dimensional form that would essentially slow sound waves thereby giving t…
From Flinstones to Jetsons: Family Prosthetic Business Enters 21st Century with 3D Printing
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Bill and Brian Layman, the father and son team behind Innovative Orthotics and Prosthetics, their family-run prosthetics business. Bill has been in the b…
EOS Releases Two Medical Grade Materials for 3D Metal Printing
Manufacturer of 3D metal printers EOS is further expanding its materials portfolio and, consequently, expanding the reach of 3D printing into more and more aspects of our lives. With the company’s ne…
Soluble Support Material Supports Creation of Hollow Composite Parts
As it turns out, soluble support materials for FDM/FFF 3D printing may offer more uses than just support. Customers of Stratasys have been utilizing their machines to take advantage of the unique prop…
Additively Piecing Together the Pieces of the Additive Puzzle
Say you are a company that is looking into getting a new prototype done. You may – or may not – be an additive manufacturing early adopter. Perhaps you do not have the personnel and means…
Will the HP 3D Printing Talk Prove to be White Noise or Game Changing?
Hewlett-Packard (HP) continues to tease investors and other 3D printing vendors, not to mention the press, about its plans to enter the 3D printing market. On Tuesday last, HP’s Chief Executive Meg Wh…
Escaping Piranesi’s Prisons of the Mind by 3D Printing an Impossible Exhibition
The news is that Diverse Maniere: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess, an exhibit on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s work, can now be visited in London, at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, until May 31st. The Itali…
Report Compiles, Categorizes and Makes Pretty 3D Printing Patent Data
There are people out there who are interested in taking advantage of the 3D printing hype to get their slice of the action. There are others who feel encumbered by the breadth of patents already preve…
EnvisionTEC Launches its Latest Micro 3D Printer
The Perfactory Micro Advantage is being billed as an entry level 3D printer for jewellery designers. With a maximum build size perfect for most jewellery pieces and a new wax-like casting material it’…
3D Printing a New Fashion Collection
One of the most eye-catching presentations at Inside 3D Printing Berlin was given by Antonius Koster and Anna Wilhelmi. I had met both prior to their presentation having been introduced by Florian Hor…
Kinpo Electronics: Paving The Way For Broad Consumer Adoption Of 3D Printing
Widespread adoption of 3D printing at the consumer level faces two major obstacles: ease of use and affordability are the issues most consumers face. Taiwan-based Kinpo Electronics, (TWSE:2312), a com…
PolyMakr Offers 3 New 3D Printing Materials on Kickstarter
A new company based in Shanghai believes that it has created three new 3D printing filaments that are superior to those already on the market. And, it appears, the Kickstarter community has enough fai…