Is there a serious future for wood 3D printing?
It’s been a decade that wood 3D printing has been around. Yet, it takes the launch of Forust™, Desktop Metal’s subsidiary dedicated to end-use...
Key considerations to take into account for depowdering of plastic 3D printed parts.
Among the post-processing tasks that have often been considered modest priorities by OEMs, there is depowdering. The thing is, a lot of consideration has...
Qualification of 3D printed parts: What? Why? When? And most importantly how?
Once per year, we sit down to assess some of the key insights we collected from our conversations with OEMs using AM and from...
12 3D printing ventures that turned stealth mode off in 2023
Every year a range of new companies venture into the Additive Manufacturing industry. In the list of 2023’s newcomers, one notices that the growing...
Identifying defects in metal 3D printed parts can lead to up to 70% savings in production costs. Materialise explains how and why.
As part of the additive production of a critical medical component, a defect identified after the post-processing phase made the team lose one HIP...
Lease? Buy? Subscribe? The pros and cons of different acquisition models of industrial 3D printing equipment.
“I know we need an industrial 3D printer but I am not sure if we will be able to amortize the cost of such...
5 reasons why you should invest in trade media
This end of 2023 was quite special as I have had the opportunity to talk with a few entrepreneurs and industry insiders working in...
10 technology highlights of 2023 that shaped the Additive Manufacturing world (Part 2)
Updated on January 4th: The article has been updated to reflect the "Arburg" solution in part 4.
2023 has been a very interesting year both...
2023: Additive Manufacturing, for better or worse (Part 1)
Before starting this “2023 year in review” article, I had a look at what I wrote last year: consolidation through acquisitions & funding dominated...
How do nanotechnology & Additive Manufacturing intertwine and what opportunities lie ahead?
Among the wide range of technologies that can bolster an Additive Manufacturing (AM) application, nanotechnology is often the least mentioned. Yet the synergy between...