Collins Aerospace opens $14 million Additive Manufacturing center in West Des Moines, Iowa
Collins Aerospace, a business of RTX, one of the largest aerospace and defense companies, recently opened a $14 million expansion of its additive manufacturing center in West Des Moines, Iowa. The 9,000-square-foot addition provides...
Marines demonstrate in-flight 3D printing aboard a U.S. Marine Corps aircraft
The Consortium for Additive Manufacturing Research and Education (CAMRE) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently conducted a demonstration of in-flight 3D printing aboard a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.
This successful test...
University of Sheffield students build and test a metal 3D printed liquid rocket engine
The engine would be the first to be 3D printed by students in the UK and the most powerful student-built liquid rocket engine
A team of Sheffield engineering and science students additively manufactured the ‘SunFire’...
Incus looks back at lithography-based metal manufacturing tests in the lunar environment
The project's goal was to develop a sustainable process that uses lunar resources and recycled scrap metals, eventually contaminated by lunar dust, to produce spare parts on-site which could help and enhance human settlement...
RapidFlight acquires Local Motors’ IP portfolio, underscoring its commitment to harness Additive Manufacturing
Local Motors is one of those companies that was gone too soon. With a catchy product, a 3D printed autonomous shuttle, Local Motors was changing the way mobility could be done on campuses or...
Agile Space Industries to propel metal additive manufacturing and hypergolic propulsion test capabilities thanks to seed round of $13M
Agile Space Industries, an in-space propulsion solution provider recently closed a seed funding round of $13 million. The company plans to enhance its production operations and meet the needs of multiple customers for lunar landing...
Lockheed Martin Corporation made a strategic investment in aerospace AM company Sintavia
Sintavia, LLC, an additive designer and manufacturer of advanced thermodynamic components for aerospace & defense applications, has received a direct equity investment from Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT). This is not the first investment...
Additive Manufacturing for space applications: ThrustMe on the use of ceramic materials
ThrustMe, a company that specializes in in-space propulsion and satellite orbital maneuvering strategies, is currently relying on ceramic 3D printing, for the manufacturing of specific parts in its thruster. After a demonstration of its...
GKN Aerospace’s Cell 3 enables 5-meter 3D printed parts, scaling up parts to sizes needed for safety critical air and space structures
GKN Aerospace has added what is described as the largest known laser directed energy deposition additive manufacturing (AM) cell to its new Global Technology Center in Texas, USA. Cell 3 can enable large scale additive...
GKN Aerospace and Materialise to focus on the use of Additive Manufacturing in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts
GKN Aerospace and Materialise to address certification and additive production of functional and flight-critical aerostructures
GKN Aerospace, aerospace parts producer, and Materialise, a 3D printing service provider, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) aimed...
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The Industry and Sulapac join forces to provide bio-based, recyclable 3D printing materials
The Industry Sweden AB, a 3D printer manufacturer that develops FGF systems (fused granule fabrication), now provides its customers with patented bio-based and recyclable...
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Those companies unveiled new 3D printers this week: Impossible Objects, Titan Robotics and NXT Factory
Impossible Objects releases new Composite 3D
Printing System and partners with BASF
We haven’t heard much about Impossible Objects in 2 years. Following the launch...
