German Company Lowering the Costs of Metal AM
Metal 3D printing is stupidly expensive (and so is post processing), but a German company, One Click Metal, is hoping to change that,... read more »
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.
Researchers Develop Lattice Defect Detection Method
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a real-time method for detecting and predicting strut defects in 3D printed metal... read more »
HC Starck Tungsten Powders Rebrands their AM Tungsten Line
HC Starck Tungsten Powders, a subsidiary of Masan High-Tech Materials Group based in Goslar, Germany, has recently announced the rebranding of its tungsten... read more »
Reeb Cycles To Launch Enduro Bike with 3D Printed Chromoly Components
Reeb Cycles, the mountain bike manufacturer, has revealed its latest enduro racer, the Steezl. Unlike most modern mountain bikes made of carbon fiber,... read more »
Engineers Use DfAM to Reduce Shaft Weight by over 50%
Mario Franchi, an Application Engineer for Additive Manufacturing at il Sentiero International Campus, faced the challenge of creating a lightweight gear and sprocket... read more »
Ankit Aerospace 3D Printing SpaceX-style Grid Fins
Ankit Aerospace, an Indian firm, has announced that it will be using Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) technology to 3D print grid fins... read more »
Hepburn and Sons and MELD Join Forces for US Defense Contracts
Hepburn and Sons LLC, a small business providing consulting and engineering services to the U.S. defense sector, has officially joined forces with MELD... read more »
ASTM Publishes Two New Additive Manufacturing Standards for Metals and Aerospace
ASTM International, has recently published two new standards for additive manufacturing (AM) in collaboration with its AM committee (F42). The first standard (F3571)... read more »
Researchers Create New Superalloy for Turbomachinery
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have created a 3D printed superalloy that could help power plants generate more electricity while reducing carbon emissions.... read more »
Dakar Rally Car Gets Steel 3D Printing Treatment
The Dakar Rally is a brutal annual race that has taken part in Saudi Arabia for the last few years. This year, it... read more »
US Navy Identifies Supply Bottleneck to be Rectified with AM
The U.S. Navy is planning to use 3D printing to produce complex, critical parts for submarines, ships, and aircraft after examining 5,500 parts... read more »
US Navy to get 3D Printed Titanium Pumps
Titanium developer IperionX has partnered with US-based centrifugal pump manufacturer Carver Pump to produce titanium pump components for the US Navy. Carver will... read more »
Ex-SpaceX Engineer Launches Manufacturing-as-a-Service Company
Freeform, a new metal 3D printing company, has emerged from stealth and is planning to launch software-defined, autonomous printing factories around the world.... read more »
International Consortium to Promote Use of 3D Printed Metals in Construction
The Politecnico di Milano is leading a "ConstructAdd", an international consortium of partners in developing metal 3D printing techniques to improve energy efficiency... read more »
Researchers Use Digital Twin for DED Optimization
A group of researchers from Tokyo University of Science and Suwa University of Science, in Japan, have collaborated with TOCALO Co. Ltd. to... read more »
British Army Gets AM Parts for Armored Vehicles
UK defense supplier Babcock International Group has introduced its first 3D printed metal parts for the British Army's Titan and Trojan fleets. This... read more »
Realtime AI-based Keyhole Pore Detection
Researchers at University of Virginia have published a paper highlighting their work in the use of machine learning (ML) for the real-time detection... read more »
DOE Exascale Computing Project to Advance Metal AM
A team of researchers from ORNL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NIST and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have been... read more »
John Deere Tractors Get AM Engine Parts
Tractor manufacturer John Deere has been using additive manufacturing in their prototyping for years, but have recently announced that they will be using... read more »
ORNL Testing Robotic AM System with Neutron Source
Oak Ridge National Laboratory seems to have all the best toys where it comes to testing 3D printing processes for metals, and the... read more »
