Merry Christmas from Kai Parthy! After inventing the concrete-like LAYBRICK and wood-like LAYWOO-D3 filaments, the man has proven himself a whiz with textures and material engineering once again with the first in a new series of filaments, PORO-LAY. PORO-LAY is…
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Another ‘Home’ Metal 3D Printer: Newton 3D
3D Printing at home with metals is now truly an emergent trend. The release of an open source welder based home 3D printer this month has caused massive ripples in the open source 3D printing community on social media. This…
NatureWorks Partners with 3Dom for PLA Filament Production
NatureWorks, a US-based company known for its Ingeo biodegradeable PLA, has just entered into a partnership with Ireland’s newly formed 3Dom Filaments Limited. 3Dom will be exclusively manufacturing its filaments out of NatureWorks’ Ingeo PLA and its products will carry…
Arcam AB Acquires Materials Division of Raymor
Perhaps as a means of directly controlling its metal powders supplier, 3D metal printer manufacturer Arcam AB (AMAVF, in the US, or ARCM.ST on the Nasdaq OMX) has signed an agreement to acquire the AP&C division of Raymor Industries for…
Plastic As Currency With 3D Printing & The Plastic Bank
An amazing initiative by The Plastic Bank is setting up plastic re-purposing centres around the world in places where waste plastic and poverty abound. The project seeks to empower people to harvest plastics as a currency they can exchange for…
3D Systems Acquires Village Plastics — The Latest in a Long line of Acquisitions
3D Systems gobbles up leading 3D printing filament manufacturer Village Plastics in a move that has been in the works for months. This comes hot on the heels of purchasing 3D printed edibles innovator The Sugar Lab and ceramic printer…
New Extruder = $4 per Pound (£6 per kg) Filament!
A problem with current 3D printer heads is a lack of variety of extrudable materials. There are more than most mass media outlets covering 3D printing state, such as nylon, water soluble PVA, wood and sandstone, to complement the popular…
Low-Cost Titanium Powder is the First of its Kind
Sort of a like a camper’s grainy footage of Bigfoot sauntering between trees in a forest, a Cambridge University spin-out company, Metalysis, has put out a video demonstrating the 3D printing of low-cost titanium powder, as part of a University…
CRP is off to Space with new Windform XT 2.0 Material for SLS
Elon Musk, the superstar entrepreneur who founded both Tesla Motors and Space X, said once that many technologies developed for electric cars can be used in rockets and vice versa. An Italian-American company, CRP Group, took a slightly different approach,…
Graphite Additive Manufacturing & BJS Group Partnership
Graphite Additive Manufacturing, a supplier of 3D printed parts produced in high performance materials, has entered a partnership with plating providers BJS Company. The company says that as 3D printing technologies are increasingly used in the design and development cycle…
