Materials for Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing

What additive manufacturing material for which AM technology? There is a host of additive manufacturing materials out there and the process of joining materials to make parts from 3D model data looks like a story that never ends.

SprintRay Announces Planned Validation of new resins on its Pro 95 and Pro 55 3D Printers

SprintRay, a dental technology company announces the validation of Dentsply Sirona's Lucitone Digital Print Denture System on the SprintRay Pro 95 and Pro 55 printers. With the validation of additional materials on its open-source...

Can manufacturers bet on hybrid manufacturing processes?

As its name suggests, the purpose of “Hybrid Manufacturing” is relatively easy to understand: taking the advantages of both additive and subtractive technologies within the same machine. The concept is relatively new as first...

Forward AM’s rapid growth continues with new 3D Printing Centre in the US

It’s only been a few weeks that BASF, together with its partner Xuberance, cut the ribbon of an Additive Manufacturing Technical Center in Shanghai. The chemical company – through its Forward AM brand -...

Additive Manufacturing and Industrialization of reusable coffee capsules? Kimya materialises CAPS ME’s idea

As there are a lot of talks about protecting the environment, it should be noted that when it comes to coffee - which is the second most consumed drink after water - only one...

Current advancements & existing hurdles in Dental 3D Printing

Although dentistry has long time been associated with subtractive manufacturing – milling especially - , a report from market intelligence firm CONTEXT reveals that this field makes up over one fifth of the end...

Colossus and colorFabb develop special foaming materials for FGF 3D printing

Large-scale 3D printer manufacturer Colossus and materials producer colorFabb enter a partnership to bring Lightweight (LW) materials to the FGF market. As a reminder, FGF which stands for Fused Granular Fabrication consists in processing plastics...

6K secures $51M to drive advanced battery material development and global expansion of Additive Manufacturing Powders

6K has just received an investment of $51M in Series C financing round led by Volta Energy Technologies. The latter was joined by new investors (Catalus Capital and S Cap/Prithvi Ventures), and existing investors...

These unusual 3D printing materials we have ever seen

3D printing has led to some of the coolest objects we have ever seen in this industry but sometimes, the materials used to produce these objects are fabricated in a very unexpected way. 3D...

BMF introduces new industrial 3D printer and new Ceramic 3D Printing Materials

UK-based expert in micro-precision industrial 3D printing, BMF, has announced two additions to its materials-printers combination. From the manufacturing side, the company has released the microArch™ S230, designed for applications that require ultra-high resolution prints (down to...

Exploring DLP 3D printing tooling applications with EnvisionTEC and Covestro’s capabilities

The additive manufacturing industry is full of collaborations on material+printer solutions to advance industrial 3D printing. However, very of few them currently address DLP 3D printing tooling applications. Two companies that share the same vision...

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