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USA: Assets of a 3D metal printing company and a powder producer put up for auction

A Timed Online Auction is set to take place on Wednesday, February 07, with bidding commencing at 11:00 AM. Pre-Auction offers are being accepted on all major items, and for the facility in its...

GKN Aerospace invests £50 million to establish an Additive Manufacturing center in Sweden

This investment is meant to build a Centre of Excellence in Trollhättan, Sweden, and will create 250 jobs for highly skilled engineers and operators. Aerospace company GKN Aerospace has announced a £50 million (600 million...

Identifying defects by “listening” for them as they occur in a metal 3D printer

Acoustic monitoring for detecting porosity in laser powder bed fusion could be viable. In a recent article, we learned that one can identify defects in a laser powder bed fusion machine using the Materialise Quality...

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 cycle, one day of post-processing and quality inspections, not to...

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 from a business and a technology perspective. Whether it was...

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 the market, materials & software called the tune in the...

Alternative processes including Additive Manufacturing help Northrop Grumman reduce lead times by 75% for its solid rocket motor

Global aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman recently achieved the successful test of its new solid rocket motor. One of the goal of the company was to build one of the most advanced...

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 both technologies can lead to versatile and multifunctional applications that...

Additive Manufacturing Solutions to explore the technical feasibility of recovering critical materials from surplus defense assets

Additive Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. (AMS), a UK-based startup providing material and process validation services, is collaborating with the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA) to research the technical feasibility of...

Thermwood continues to demonstrate the viability of its Cut Layer Additive solution – this time with a large aluminum mold

Machine manufacturer Thermwood continues to give users the ability to produce parts with the benefits of the additive process using materials one cannot print or that are difficult to print. One of the AM...