Metal Additive Manufacturing

A wide range of different technologies can be used in the metal Additive Manufacturing field today. This segment looks at these technologies and the way they are leveraged by industries.

Uniformity Labs unveils UniFuse™ IN718 Nickel Alloy for Laser Powder Bed Fusion 3D printing

Materials producer Uniformity Labs (aka Uniformity) has qualified the UniFuse™ IN718 Nickel Alloy for Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF). This announcement follows the recent availability of a range of steel, aluminum, and titanium powders...

Relativity Space’s 3D-printed rocket fails to lift off

The spacecraft successfully fired its first-stage engines but did not get off the ground during second launch attempt   Last Saturday was a day of false starts for Relativity Space. Its Terran 1 rocket failed to...

Automated support removal & finishing for Metal Additive Manufacturing: the choice between Robots or CNC

The use of metal additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized the manufacturing industry, allowing for the creation of complex and intricate parts in a faster and more cost-effective manner. However, essential post processing of these...

Metal 3D Printing: Renishaw and British Cycling renew partnership for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

On the heels of the 3D printed track bike created for the Tokyo Olympics, global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, and the Great Britain Cycling Team join forces again for an AM production that will...

Meet The Educator and The Researcher: B-jetting’s 3D binder-jet development platforms

These modular printers are 100% designed, built, and serviced in the US. Dan Brunermer has come a long way. When he started his consultancy firm – almost two years ago -, after almost two decades...

Nexus, Hexagon’s digital reality platform, puts an end to silos; optimizes DfAM processes and more.

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has introduced on the market Nexus, a digital reality platform co-engineered with Microsoft that would enable global teams to collaborate in real-time across the product lifecycle – from design and...

Global Advanced Metals and Croom Medical are working on the development of a tantalum-based additive manufacturing platform.

Tantalum (Ta) is one of these refractory metals that is highly valued due to its applications in a wide range of industrial sectors where outstanding mechanical properties at elevated temperatures are required. In the...

New flying race car features critical additively manufactured parts

We are witnessing an increasing use of AM technologies in the development of eVTOLs. On the heels of JETSON, Alauda Aeronautics, a developer of performance electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, based in...

Launcher becomes a Vast company

It’s official. To accelerate its mission to expand humanity across the solar system by developing long term human habitation in space, Vast has acquired space startup Launcher. As a reminder, the  small launch vehicle manufacturer has made...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. to support its AM applications development efforts with Divergent’s solution

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), GA’s division that fosters the most the adoption of AM, announces a partnership with Divergent Technologies, a tech automotive company known for the manufacture of human-AI-designed and 3D...