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How does 3D printing evolve in the fashion industry? Sylvia Heisel & Scott Taylor’s perspective.

3D printing still needs to prove itself in the fashion industry. Sylvia Heisel, fashion designer associates 3D printing technology with new materials to create sustainable and wearable pieces. She partners with Scott Taylor, an...

Researchers at Singapore’s NTU created 3D printable concrete

Researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) used a residue from burnt coal to create a 3D printable concrete. Called geopolymer mortar, this type of concrete is a mixture of steel slag as well...

Artist Jack Elliott 3D prints a tree as a paper sculpture

Artist Jack Elliott 3D scanned a Tasmanian tree, thereafter recreated it using a 3D printer that makes solid objects from paper.   How the project came to life? First of all, he realized the lack of attention or...

Havenlabs’s utility band assistive device is now available to everyone

Havenlabs, a non profit organization which aims “to create a better future for those who sacrificed so much for freedom ” releases its open source utility band to help amputees. As it is...

A funding of more than $7M to realize invisible 3D printed braces

Smartee Denti-Technology, specialized in 3D printed orthodontic solutions raised over 50 million yuan (USD $7.6M) to realize 3D printed braces. Bioventure Investment Management Limited and private equity firm CDBI Partners are part of the...

A hint of Layer One’s Atom 3: the 3D Printer that combines SLA and FDM

Layer One, a Taïwan-based manufacturer teases the features of their new 3D printer, which would merge both FDM (Fused Deposit Modeling) and SLA (stereolithography). The choice of a 3D printer usually depends on the...

The Robotic Additive Manufacturing systems from EnvisionTEC and Viridis3D

Viridis3D is a flexible robotic additive manufacturing system that could easily be used in foundries. A new way of production to foundries Foundries will enjoy the speed with which the systems prints — and how...

Meet the New da Vinci Color, XYZ new 3D printer

XYZprinting unveils the First Full Color FFF 3D Printer with 3D Color Jet technology at IFA 2017, Berlin massive tech show. The New da Vinci Color The new printer combines inkjet printing with the fused filament...

Jabil, Nano Dimension’s first commercial customer for its professional 3D printer

Nano Dimension Technologies Ltd, provider of 3D printed electronics just signed an agreement with Jabil Inc., for the lease of Nano Dimension DragonFly 2020 3D printer. For Nano Dimension, this agreement with Jabil Inc....

Materialise and Tailored Fits set up a digital supply chain for custom-fit ski boots

The first end-to-end digital supply chain for custom-fit ski boots will very soon be implemented. This innovation is the result of a collaboration of Materialise, one of the leaders in the 3D printing industry...