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3D Printing Resilience: the Case of Fiber Lasers
Since at least 2020, additive manufacturing (AM) has become more and more synonymous with the concept of supply chain resilience. In 2024, there is almost guaranteed to be a striking…
3D Printing News Briefs, October 6, 2022: Titanium, Tungsten, Concrete & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll start with software, as Siemens embeds the 3Dfindit.com parts library by CADENAS into its Capital software. Onto metal news now, as research out…
3D Printing News Briefs, January 15, 2022: 3D Laser Printing, Housing, & More
We’re starting with some interesting research in 3D Printing News Briefs today, which could help reduce the cost and size of 3D laser printing. Moving on, a cancer patient is…
“California-based Rocket Company” Orders Two of SLM’s 12-Laser Metal 3D Printers
When the equipment you make costs millions of dollars, every sale is newsworthy. When that equipment is meant to revolutionize metal 3D printing and, therefore, manufacturing as a whole, it…
Bioprinted Brain Cells Made Possible with Laser-Based 3D Printing
Scientists from the Université de Montréal have published a study detailing the ability to bioprint adult brain cells. Key to the research was a new laser-assisted technology that made it…
Morf3D Invests in 12-Laser Metal 3D Printer from SLM Solutions
Nikon subsidiary Morf3D, a service company with a focus on aerospace parts, will purchase two SLM 500 systems and one NXG XII 600 from SLM Solutions. This is a serious…
New, Powerful Metal 3D Printing Tech Being Explored by Fraunhofer IWS
The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (Fraunhofer IWS) is experimenting with a new, high-powered metal 3D printing technology. Based on a technology called coherent beam combining (CBC), the…
Graphene Coating Improves 3D Printing of Pure Copper Powder
Pure copper is a great heat and electricity conductor, making it a highly sought after metal in the 3D printing industry to use for applications such as heat exchangers and…
Seurat Aims to Disrupt Metal 3D Printing with 2 Million Lasers
3D printing company Seurat is named after pointillist painter Seurat because, like him, the company wants to work pixel by pixel. Rather than trace a laser over the whole build,…
3D Printing News Briefs, February 24, 2021: Auburn University, Vector Photonics, Siemens Energy, Omegasonics, Bugatti, Hackaday
We’re starting with some business in 3D Printing News Briefs today, talking about Auburn University’s Additive Manufacturing Accelerator and Vector Photonics leading the BLOODLINE consortium, which I promise isn’t as…
Laser Wars: SLM Solutions to Sell Five 12-Laser Metal 3D Printers
In other news, some sales person as SLM Solutions (AM3D.DE) just hit it way out of the park on their quarterly bonus before the end of January. The company announced…
Through a Glass Clearly: 3D Printing Glass with Lasers and Clear Silica Resin
3D printing glass is a pretty tricky feat, mainly because it’s hard to maintain the material’s mechanical properties at its very high melting point. But a trio of researchers from…
Laser Wars: Additive Industries Announces 10 Laser 600 X 600mm X 1000mm Metal 3D Printer
SLM Solutions announced that it’s working on a 12-laser powder bed fusion system. Velo3D announced that it is working on a eight-laser system with a 600mm x 550 mm build…
Exactech Transitions from EBM to Laser 3D Printing Implants for Shoulders
Orthopedic implant device maker Exactech wants to scale up the production of its Equinoxe Stemless Shoulder implant by switching from electron beam metal additive manufacturing to direct metal 3D printing…
Fraunhofer ILT: Making Tungsten Carbide-Cobalt Cutting Tools with LPBF 3D Printing
Obviously, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT does a lot of work with lasers, and, in the same vein, with metal 3D printing processes that use lasers. Now, it’s teaming…
Aconity3D to Set Up North American Base of Operations for 3D Printing at UTEP
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has long been a 3D printing advocate, and a lot of this important work takes place at the university’s W.M. Keck Center for…
Researchers Behind High-Speed EHLA 3D Printing and Coating Process Receive Prestigious Award
Last summer, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and the RWTH Aachen University developed a new 3D printing process that offers eco-friendly, economical corrosion and wear protection, without having to deal with…
LENS Technology Used in New One-Step Process for 3D Printing Multimaterial Structures
Laser engineering net shaping (LENS), a patented, hybrid additive manufacturing technology developed by Optomec, is most often used for high-value metal 3D printing. It can also be added onto existing CNC…
Research Team Uses Synchrotron Beamline to See Inside Laser 3D Printing Process
While we know that 3D printing gives us the ability to create complex shapes and geometries that would be impossible to achieve with conventional forms of manufacturing, less frequently discussed…
3D Printing News Briefs: March 27, 2018
We’ve got plenty of business news to share with you in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by some interesting research efforts. Sciaky and Sigma Labs are both announcing new…
RIT Uses Optomec’s LENS 3D Printing Process to Fix Metal Gear Shaft
The complexity possible through 3D printing is especially helpful for making specific replacement parts, and incorporating the technology is a good way to provide excellent customer service for those who…
Laser-Based 3D Printing Used to Fabricate Tiny Microstructures for Tissue Repair
The researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are already well known for their work in robotics, microscopy, and spectroscopy, but now they’re researching a new and innovative…
Glowforge Launching Specialty Line of Proofgrade Materials at CES 2018
The product announcements keep coming as CES 2018 officially opened its doors this morning at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Seattle startup Glowforge, best known for its subtractive laser cutter, is…
Trumpf Debuts Triple-Laser TruPrint 5000 Metal Additive Manufacturing System at formnext
In 2015, family-owned German industrial machining and tooling equipment manufacturer Trumpf got back in the metal 3D printing game when it debuted the TruPrint 1000 laser metal fusion (LMF) 3D printer at…
