3D printing news

Link3D, an industry-leading SaaS-based MES manufacturer, has announced today that it is launching its AMWatch IoT platform. The new platform is expected to improve and automate quality management systems, enabling manufacturers to more consistently print high quality end-use parts, ideal…

Material Jetting is one of the seven families of additive manufacturing processes. As the name suggests, it consists of depositing material on a printing tray, layer by layer, much like a 2D printer that drops ink on paper. Here, the…

Graphene has been considered a wonder material since its discovery in 2004. An allotrope of carbon that consists of a layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, it has been used more and more often for the production…

3D Systems has just announced their latest enhancement to their VSP surgical planning portfolio. The all new VSP Hybrid Guides will deliver a breakthrough patient-specific, occlusal-based solution for maxillofacial surgeries. By combining nylon and titanium guides the new enhancement will…

Additive manufacturing has been growing in importance in a number of different industries in the past few years. The ability to create objects that are customizable, more optimized, and often cheaper than parts created through traditional methods has made AM…

Stratasys, one of the largest and most-established 3D printing companies in the world and a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions announced today the launch of three new 3D printers that together will address a large portion of the multibillion-dollar…

Founded in 2007 by Carl van de Rijzen, Visual First (VF), is a Dutch company specializing in reverse engineering. Undertaking the renovation of a 1919 Harley Davidson, the company found that one of its mechanical parts, in this case the…

Essentium has announced the launch of the all new Essentium High Speed Extrusion (HSE) 280i HT 3D Printer. The industry-leading company hopes that this new solution will transform manufacturing floors and solve issues in additive manufacturing relating to speed, strength,…

Sooner or later, self-driving vehicles will become part of our everyday lives, and it’s not just the carmakers themselves who have realized this. Well-known automotive giants like Volkswagen, Audi and Daimler are increasingly facing competition from tech giants like Google…

Nanoform, a company specialising innovative nanoparticle medicine, and Aprecia, a 3D printing pharmaceutical company, have announced that they intend to collaborate in an endeavor to advance 3D printed nanomedicines. Taking advantage of the synergies between their respective technologies in the…

Since 2014, Fabulous, co-founded by the Coulet brothers, has been supporting French companies from a variety of industries in integrating additive manufacturing. In 2020, however, it undertook a strategic shift by initiating a new complementary activity of powder materials development…

Though there are a number of materials that can be used for 3D printing, it is undeniable that the most popular materials are polymers. Plastics, especially high-performance thermoplastics, are used in a variety of industries for functions as wide-ranging as…