Tag: fabrication additive
Jean Paul Gaultier brings 5 haute couture designs to life using 3D printing
In a collaboration with 3D printing service bureau Sculpteo, fashion designer ROMI creates five haute couture looks for iconic haute couture fashion house Jean Paul...
Virtual surgical planning at scale: How SGH built a point-of-care AM program that works
The diversity of perspectives shared at EFHAM 2025 further reinforced something I find myself returning to often: that advancing modern medicine, and in this...
Fraunhofer IWM boosts fatigue strength of metal 3D printed parts by up to 40% and can now predict it
When a metal part is 3D printed, it comes out of the machine with weaknesses concentrated at its surface: roughness, tensile residual stress locked...
TE Connectivity relies on 3D printing for catheter manufacturing
TE Connectivity, a company we used to see operate in the field of connectors and sensors, uses 3D printing to manufacture the catheter shafts...
The right moment in AM: When machine manufacturers should launch and AM users should invest
Understanding the economics and timing of innovation
December 2025. I sat down for a yearly catch-up with Marina Haugg, Head of Marketing & PR at...
Why LEAP 71 thinks in code first and what that means for Aerospace & Defense
Four years ago, when I first met Lin Kayser, then CEO and founder of Hyperganic, he was betting on algorithms and AI to mass-produce...
“Print what’s suitable”: Inside Vår Energi’s additive manufacturing strategy
When we map additive manufacturing in the energy industry, the same handful of names tends to surface on our radar: Shell, Equinor, Kongsberg Ferrotech,...
Empa turns to metal 3D printing to repair ageing steel infrastructure
Steel bridges, support structures and industrial frameworks are built to last decades, but fatigue cracks eventually catch up with them. Replacing a permanently installed...
Guaranteed signs MoU with Lockheed Martin to support Belgium’s F 35 industrial strategy with WAAM
Guaranteed just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global security, defense and aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin. Together, they will deploy Guaranteed’s large-scale metal...
Solukon’s SPR-Pathfinder® Pro tackles 3 challenges in depowdering complex 3D printed parts
Last year, for the very first time, automated depowdering expert Solukon, together with The Exploration Company, opened our eyes to the importance of designing...