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Sustainability, Scaling, and Uncertainty: 3D Printing Trends for 2020
In 2020, Materialise will celebrate its 30th anniversary. In the past three decades, seen 3D printing grow from a nascent technology that was struggling to create even basic shapes to a revolutionary technology,...
A last look at 2019: what does it mean for the additive manufacturing industry?
Looking Back at 2019 and Forward to 20202020 is just around the corner. While all of us are going to close the doors of this year, we thought it could be interesting to recall...
A roundup of the weird and wonderful world of 3D printing in 2019
3D printing has been touted as being a manufacturing cure-all for a whole host of different applications. However, sometimes, operators are going too far in the way they see 3D printing. Dr Bryony Core, industry expert...
High-performance materials, their mark in manufacturing
Imagine if the security scanner that detects gas residue in a public environment malfunctioned due to the breakdown or failure of a material used in the manufacturing process of a given part. When we...
Additive Manufacturing Interoperability
As manufacturers more and more recognize additive manufacturing (AM) as a viable production alternative, they find themselves facing new challenges in informatics or systems integration. Every day, operators answer and raise several questions related...
Sintavia Launches Green Trade Group for Additive Manufacturers
Sintavia, LLC, a leading additive manufacturer focused on the aerospace & defense industry, has co-founded a trade group for additive manufacturers focused on promoting the environmental benefits of AM over traditional methods of manufacturing....
Polygonica helps reconstruct 17th century flute model to enable 3D printing of playable replicas
The Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University had a complex mesh created from a 3D scan of a severely damaged part of a 17th century flute that was impossible to 3D print.The instrument...
Renishaw unveils new software to improve AM visualisation
Renishaw recently launched Sonic, a new acoustic process monitoring software to form part of the company’s InfiniAM suite. Sonic enables engineers to detect acoustic events within the additive manufacturing (AM) build chamber and turn...
With a FDM 3D printer, you can create your own 3D resin printer
LumiBee is a unique mini 3D resin printer that uses smartphone as a light source to polymerize the resin. The project is free for everyone who wants to create their own device at home....
Additive Center helps Burgaflex to explore various 3D printing applications for automotive
Burgaflex, a specialist in producing tube, fitting and hose assemblies for the automotive industry, has recently decided to take a leap into 3D printing. They have been helped in this approach by Additive Center,...