Adoption of 3D Printing

Farsoon revealed its expansion into the Southeast Asian footwear market by partnering with Chanhon Additive Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd. (Chanhon Tech) in October 2023. Chanhon is a 3D printing solutions provider in additive footwear...

The University of Florida has received the BOD3, a 3D construction printer, a 3rd-generation model manufactured by COBOD International in Denmark. The 27,000-pound two-story printer is kept in “The Pit” (Weil Hall Structures & Materials...

Elastium, a Los Angeles-based 3D printing startup company, has signed an agreement with California-based shoe manufacturer LaLaLand Production & Design, which plans to introduce 3D-printed foam shoes.  Described as the world’s first, the partnership’s first...

A global medical tech firm - Exactech has announced the successful completion of the first ankle replacement surgery with its Vantage® Ankle 3D and 3D+ tibial implants. The MD of St. Luke’s University Health Network,...

Tungsten, a material difficult to process with Additive Manufacturing, has recently been processed using an unconventional AM technique.  Sougata Roy,  an Iowa State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a Building a World of Difference Faculty...

To help researchers distinguish what’s part of an implant and what cells or tissue can make the structures easier to track and monitor inside the patient’s body. For that, University of Oregon bioengineers and...

The new Freeformer 550-3X from ARBURG with Gestica production assistant will be presented in Formnext 2024, Frankfurt. The 3D printer is based on ARBURG Plastic Freeforming (APF) unveiled for the first time in 2018...

Dassault Systèmes has recently rolled out the latest version of its 3D design and product development application portfolio - SOLIDWORKS 2025. SOLIDWORKS 2025 consists of improved collaboration & data management, aligned parts workflow, 3D...

A conversation with Prof. Florian Thieringer. Among the wide range of specialists found in medicine, I have often called craniomaxillofacial surgeons gifted artists. Their ability to treat the soft tissue and skeletal structures of...

VA is a Veteran Affairs department from the US government that pledged to protect the veteran survivors' families who have served as military personnel. VA’s Office of Advanced Manufacturing (OAM) creates patient-based, FDA-approved Radiotherapy...