Satellite Benefits From Metal AM Weight Reduction
The European Space Agency’s 15-year Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Program is aimed at stimulating R&D and creating innovative products for the... read more »
Rotterdam Port Installs 3D Printed Bollards
Bollard is a strange word and is not widely used outside of the UK and America. So just to clarify, a bollard is... read more »
Webinar: How to Reduce Metal 3D Printing Costs with a Reduced Support Strategy
Post-processing of metal AM parts can account for a significant portion of the total cost of making the part, with figures ranging from... read more »
Two New 3D Printed Bridges Unveiled to the Public
3D printed bridges are apparently like buses in the sense that you wait a lifetime for one to materialize, and then two show... read more »
Super Quiet Drone Propeller Design Wins Contest
Canada-based aerospace company Delson Aeronautics has won engineering support to assist with the development of their new super quiet drone propellers, which are... read more »
How Delft Hyperloop has Embraced 3D Printing
3D printing is great for prototypes, and there is probably nothing more prototype-y than the Hyperloop. The Hyperloop concept was dreamed up a... read more »
3D Printed Brace Helps Dutch Hockey Team Win European Championship
The Dutch national hockey team very nearly found themselves without a captain recently, when triple Olympic medallist Eva de Goede fractured her wrist... read more »
Aussie Subs to Get Cold Spray Repairs In-Situ
Over the last year we have seen wider adoption of AM processes for use in repairing items, particularly in the marine and aerospace... read more »
Next Gen Flying Suit Coming Soon thanks to AM
UK-based jetsuit company Gravity Industries has announced their plans to develop a new flying suit, this time with an electrical propulsion system rather... read more »
Benchtop Bioprinters: More Materials in Smaller Package
Last month, 3D Systems announced the acquisition of bioprinter manufacturer Allevi. It is the latest in a series of moves by the company... read more »
GE gets USAF Airworthiness Cert for Metal AM Critical Part
GE has announced that their printed metal jet engine sump cover has received USAF airworthiness certification, adding another example to the very small... read more »
Researchers Produce 3D Printed Ivory
Ivory has been historically valued due to its white finish, its relative hardness, as well as of its ease of carving. Chemically speaking,... read more »
Impeller Gets Laser-clad Facelift
Laser metal deposition (LMD) is proving more and more useful to industry, as this recent impeller repair has shown. LMD, also known as... read more »
New 3D Printed Wood is ALL Wood
Wood! It’s nature’s composite material! Carbon fiber composites consist of long carbon fibers aligned along the direction of stress, bound up in a... read more »
A Closer Look at Construction Printing in Dubai
Dubai is embracing 3D printing from a whole bunch of different angles as you may have seen recently. In 2019 they received a... read more »
Industry Collaboration Highlights Path to 3D Printed Lungs
Earlier this year 3D Systems announced that they would be stepping up their efforts in the realm of bioprinting, in particular they intend... read more »
India Unveils First AM House
It’s been a good year for 3D printed houses, at least in terms of AM construction companies getting a little airtime. And the... read more »
3D Printed Compression Masks Treating Burns in Gaza
In 2020, a gas leak at a bakery in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, caused an inferno resulting in 25 fatalities and dozens of... read more »
Concrete Additive Manufacturing Gets Intricate
Most of the concrete printing stories we look at on this website are focused on large scale concrete printing systems with fairly large... read more »
Automated Vapor Smoothing for Post-Processing MJF Parts
When it comes to chemically resistant plastics commonly used in industrial 3D printers, stronger chemicals are often required for vapor smoothing. Many of... read more »
