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.
GE has announced that their printed metal jet engine sump cover has received USAF airworthiness certification, adding another example to the very small list of printed critical parts for use ...
Read More »Laser metal deposition (LMD) is proving more and more useful to industry, as this recent impeller repair has shown. LMD, also known as directed energy deposition (DED) or direct metal ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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.
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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