3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing International focuses on helping to develop skilled workers for America’s smart manufacturing infrastructure.

3D printer OEM develops fast, cost-effective process to produce single or double-sided tooling for composite parts.

Researchers seek to make blood pressure readings available to everyone with low-cost device.

Global reports on additive manufacturing find double-digit growth, emerging opportunities for process.

Branch Technology 3D prints an accurate map of lunar surface for NASA Space Camp building.

The Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD) of Dubai plans to build the world’s first 3D-printed mosque there. Construction is due to begin in October and be completed by early 2025. Located in Bur Dubai and covering 1,997 square meters (21,500 square feet), it will accommodate 600 worshippers.

Winning parts in annual thermoforming competition highlight advances in process capabilities and materials  Ten parts representing a range of applications won awards at the SPE Thermoforming Division’s annual conference in Grand Rapids, Mich., last fall.   The event lived up to…

SPE has acquired 3Dnatives, a French company that produces international events and media platforms for professionals in 3D printing, additive manufacturing (AM) and related market applications.

Materials developer Covestro and industrial 3D printer manufacturer voxeljet are collaborating on a material-machine combination for the economical and high-throughput production of large parts by additive manufacturing (AM).   The voxeljet process in use is high-speed sintering (HSS), and the model…

Arburg process converts regular pellets and granules into high-tech connected housings Injection machine manufacturer Arburg of Lossburg, Germany, recently completed a joint development project with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart, Germany, and sensor specialist Balluff…

Swiss company develops technology to print liquid crystal polymers  Despite the number of polymers available for 3D printing, a conspicuously absent performance family is liquid crystal polymers (LCPs). That’s changing now that a Swiss startup reports it has solved the…

Arris Composites’ Additive Molding process uses 3D printing and compression molding to mass produce advanced composite parts  Ethan Escowitz likes operating on a different axis than most. The rock-climbing enthusiast and former geology graduate founded Arris Composites Inc. in Berkeley,…