Metal AM Medical Implants Taking off in China
China is embracing metal additive manufacturing for the large scale manufacture of medical implants. Beijing-based AK Medical have been in the implant game for a while now. At first they ...
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3D Printing Metal
3D printing metal technologies like powder bed fusion, metal binder jetting, and directed energy deposition have grown at an explosive pace. Read everything about it here on 3DPrinting.com.
20ft Rocket Stage 3D Printed and Ready for Test
California-based space company Relativity Space has shared a bunch of new pictures on their social media showing the progress of their metal AM rocket stage. We thought we would re-share ...
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Plasma-based AM Powder Manufacture may Reduce Powder Costs
PyroGenesis, a Montreal-based company with experience in advanced plasma processes and products has figured a way out to reduce the manufacturing costs of spherical powder particles for use ...
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Aston Martin Develops 3D Printed Active Suspension System
While Porsche is printing pistons and Bugatti prints half a car, Aston Martin tinkers in their own luxurious garage. The premier automobile brand from Britain joins those and other ...
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On-site Replacement Part Manufacturing Proven at Sea
These printed metal tanker components would make an interesting article anyway (they have nice pics also), but the fact that they were printed on the tanker while at sea and used to make ...
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3D Printed Titanium Spinal Fusion Cage Receives NMPA Clearance in China
The research forefront of 3D printing for spines is ever advancing, and China offers the latest advancement with Huaxiang Group’s AM titanium spinal fusion cage receiving Category 3 medical ...
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EBAM used for Large Satellite Structures
Lockheed Martin has been experimenting with 3D printed components for large satellite structures for a while now. Even back in 2018 they were trialing the use of metal AM for the fabrication ...
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LASIMM – A Hybrid Manufacturing and Metrology Solution
Metal AM is great, but it’s still a long way off from producing true net-shape parts. To achieve the usable component, smoothed, squared and ready to go, manufacturers often have to ...
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Military Eyes Topology Optimized Heat Exchangers
The Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) sure loves additive manufacturing, as we have shown in the past. Their latest venture into AM involves a ...
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CERN using 3D Printing to Improve Particle Detection
The European particle smashing agency, CERN has turned to 3D printing to manufacture components for a cooling system in the Large Hadron Collider. The 27km circumference LHC is buried deep ...
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Researchers Develop CoNi-Based Superalloys for 3D Printing
One of the hurdles that’s still being overcome in metal 3D printing is the ability to print with superalloys. The most common forms of metal printing that involve selectively melting metal ...
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An Overview of 3D Systems’ DMP Metal Printers
In this article we'll look at the line of DMP printers and their printable alloys. From stand alone 3D printers to modular production systems.
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New DED Machine Gets Computer Vision for Additive Repair
Directed Energy Deposition (also known as Blown Powder Directed Energy Deposition) is not only good for manufacturing new parts from scratch, but it is also great for Additive ...
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Fraunhofer Researchers go XXL as FutureAM Nears Completion
Huge scale metal AM is getting a lot of coverage recently. Recently we published an article showing how NASA is using DED for manufacturing big rocket engines using copper alloys. They ...
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Free Tool for Estimating Metal AM Costs
Metal 3D printing services are generally fairly friendly and knowledgeable and are happy to give you quotes for your printed parts all day long. But it’s usually not an automated process ...
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Reusing Metal Powders
Metal powders are costly, and depending on the geometry of the part, can be even more costly due to unused powders which often go unrecycled. Big hollow parts leave a lot of unused ...
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NASA Funded Project Successfully DEDs GRCop-42 Copper Alloy
Additive Manufacturing and copper have both been finding a friend in the space industry recently, particularly in the domain of rocket engines. We have seen multiple examples this year of 3D ...
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NASA uses Blown Powder Method to Scale up Rockets
We have taken a look at how the private sector are using additive manufacturing to build rocket engines in this previous article. In that example, the engineers use powder bed fusion for ...
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Nature-inspired Ocean & Wind Turbine Mods Boost Efficiency
Wind turbines can be a little bit lossy in terms of their aerodynamic performance. Luckily mother nature has been working on this problem for a few billion years, and Toronto-based design ...
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3D Printing Metal and Plastic in One Go
Metal and plastic hybrid 3D printing has long been the aim of those wishing to print PCBs and rudimentary electronic components, such as strain gauges, resistors, basic transistors and maybe ...
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