Ricoh 3D, the 3D printing subsidiary of Japanese electronics and imaging firm Ricoh, has announced that its Telford-based HQ will be switching to 100 percent renewable energy. In an agreement with Da…
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Steelcase and MIT present gravity defying “rapid liquid” method of 3D printing
Furniture and interior design company Steelcase, in collaboration with Skylar Tibbits’ Self Assembly Lab at MIT, has unveiled a new method of 3D printing termed “rapid liquid printing̶…
3D Printing and Medicine: Product Design
When you think of medicine, product design probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. However, as a Product Designer myself, I know that they’re needed everywhere. A toaster, an aerop…
WACKER CHEMIE Unveils Silicone 3D Printing Technology
Munich-based WACKER CHEMIE has been developing chemicals for over a hundred years, specializing in rubber silicones, plastics, and more. While these products have mostly been implemented in tradition…
Skin and Bones: The Low-Cost Flexy Hand 3D Printed Prosthetic
UK-based Gyrobot Limited is a mechanical design consulting company with its own 3D printing facility, with which they focus on using FDM to 3D print concept models, end-use parts, functional prototype…
Kev Doesn’t Do Apps, Here are His Top 5 Stories for 2014
From a 3D printing perspective, this year was an interesting one for me, in that we now have in-yhghouse 3D printing. The U Print has been chugging away in the corner of the office producing our lates…
3DPI.TV – 3D Printing Silicone without Support Structures
Fripp Design and Research has released a YouTube video teasing their new 3D printing Picsima technology capable of printing medical and food grade parts using linked polymers like silicone, epoxy resi…
3DPI Editorial Round-Up: October 2014
It has long fascinated me how the language of the 3D printing industry evolves along side the technology and the companies operating within it. The current word de rigueur is the “ecosystem” — the loo…
Introducing A 3D Printing Service for Producing Silicone Products
For some time I have been in touch with the team at Fripp Design and Research, a leading industrial and product design practice here in the UK, that has been developing a proprietary new 3D printing p…
LUXeXceL Moves Ahead Full Steam with 3D Printed Optics Facility
We’ve covered LUXeXceL quite a few times on 3DPI, as they’ve developed a unique method for 3D printing optical components. The award winning company has additively manufactured both parts for LED ligh…