Opinion of the week

A conversation with Arcam AB’s Karl Lindblom on Electron Beam Melting Technology & the Lean Manufacturing Focus

Founded in 1997, Arcam AB officially debuted in the additive manufacturing industry with the launch of its first machine in 2002. Since then, the Swedish manufacturer has gone through nine further system variations.A recent...

Arcam AB’s Annika Ölme on the role of product development manager in Additive Manufacturing & where EBM is headed

We met Annika Ölme during our journey of discovery at Arcam AB Center of Excellence. She brings a decade of industry experience at GE Additive Arcam AB. As Vice President of Engineering, she is...

Freeform Injection Moulding is both “an additive manufacturing technology and an injection moulding technology”

Danish manufacturer AddiFab took up the challenge to deliver the freedom of additive manufacturing with the volumes of injection molding in a unique manufacturing process. Its technology? A novelty called Freeform Injection Moulding. In this...

Xerox multifaceted approach to 3D Printing will help the company build a “substantial business”

October 2018: a statement of Xerox CEO John Visentin informed the public of the company’s plans to “participate” in the additive manufacturing industry. A statement that was an alarm bell for long-established AM companies...

The secret behind the “affordable” metal additive manufacturing system of One Click Metal

“It wasn’t accessible to professionals who aim to leverage the technology”, an example of sentences that announces the reason why a company decides to get into a new segment, to create a new business/company....

« What did 2019 mean for AM companies and what are they looking forward to in 2020? »

At the beginning of 2019, we asked additive manufacturing experts what were their predictions for the year. The main forecast for participating companies was to focus on education, and how to move AM to...

Compatible with a wide range of materials including metals & ceramic, DOMINANT promises 3D printed “green parts”

Among the new wave of additive manufacturing newcomers that we recently identified at Formnext 2019, there is Tritone Technologies, an Israël-based company that designs and manufactures an industrial solution called DOMINANT.  With a provocative...

Fuselab 3D aims to bring a different FDM technology onto the 3D printing market

An additive manufacturing veteran once told 3D ADEPT Media that, “from a technology perspective, there is a clear additive manufacturing footprint in Belgium. (…) , Belgian companies should realize that it is time to...

Interview: SABIC reveals ability to deliver tailor-made AM materials through a specific chain of collaborations

Keith Cox brings over 35 years in the plastics industry, and has been working with SABIC since 2007. First assigned to the product development unit of the company, he witnessed he increasing interest of...

Interview: Ricoh, a relatively quiet journey in the additive manufacturing industry…until now

This collaboration will certainly be of a great benefit for manufacturers that would like to develop functional and spare parts in the electrical, rail, automotive and aerospace industries.Lastly, both partners will go one step...

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