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Clean2Antartica to drive solar powered 3D printed plastic vehicle to the South Pole

Nov.6, 2018 - Liesbeth and Edwin ter Velde of Clean2Antarctica are preparing to drive the Solar Voyager, an electric vehicle built from upcycled, 3D-printed plastic components and powered entirely by solar power, all the way to the South Pole. More

German RepRap introduces L280, first Liquid Additive Manufacturing (LAM) production-ready 3D printer

Nov.5, 2018 - German RepRap has introduced its first Liquid Additive Manufacturing (LAM) production-ready 3D printer, the L280. Not just any 3D printing company, RepRap has been carving a sizeable niche for itself for some time now in Liquid Additive Manufacturing (LAM) technology. More

GE Aviation receives FAA approval to install 3D printed bracket on GEnx commercial airline engines

Nov.5, 2018 - GE Additive and GE Aviation have announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given 'change in design' approval to replace a conventionally manufactured power door opening system (PDOS) bracket, used on GE Aviation's GEnx-2B commercial airline engines that power the Boeing 747-8, with an additively manufactured bracket. More

iro3d now shipping $5,000 desktop SPD metal 3D printer

Nov.2, 2018 - Available for U.S. pre-oders from May 2018, Seattle-based company iro3d reported in June that "production of the pre-ordered printers is on-schedule." It has shipped to four customers in recent months. More

Study shows 3D printing could enhance design thinking and creativity in primary schools

Nov.1, 2018 - Researchers at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have conducted a year-long study into the benefits of learning 3D printing and 3D design in primary school makerspaces. More

Verbatim launches Mitsubishi Chemical's bio-friendly 3D printing filament DURABIO

Nov.1, 2018 - Verbatim has announced the launch of DURABIO filament for 3D FFF printing, a transparent bio-based engineering material developed by Mitsubishi Chemical which combines the properties of Polycarbonate (PC) and Polymethacrylate (PMMA). The material has excellent optical and mechanical properties, high heat, scratch and abrasion resistance and superb light transmission and UV resistance. The filament will be available in transparent and high gloss piano black and piano white. More

Peri Group acquires minority share in Danish construction 3D printing company COBOD

Oct.31, 2018 - Germany's Peri Group, a global maker of formwork and scaffolding systems, has acquires what it calls a 'significant minority stake' in Copenhagen-based Danish 3D concrete printing specialist COBOD International A/S. More

Uniti Sweden to set up first fully digitalized EV production site in the UK

Oct.31, 2018 - Swedish electric car company Uniti has announced plans to establish an electric vehicle 'pilot production plant' at Silverstone Park, UK, part of the famous grand prix circuit. Uniti is developing an all-new electric two-seater Uniti One, which will be first produced at a 'pilot production plant' by 2020. More

LIFT: University of Twente researchers 3D print pure gold 'micro jewels' using laser technique

Oct.30, 2018 - Dutch researchers at University of Twente has developed a new metal 3D printing technique which allows a laser apparatus to print metal structures drop by drop, including in pure gold, on the few micron scale. More

ETH Zurich scientist 3D prints artificial heart pump using Embedded magnet printing

Oct.29, 2018 - Kai von Petersdorff-Campen, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Z'rich, Switzerland, has developed a 3D printing technique to create products containing magnets. He demonstrated his method, called 'Embedded magnet printing,' by 3D printing an artificial heart pump prototype, and won the first prize for prototyping from the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO). More

Precise Bio launches Ophthalmology Business Unit to develop 3D printed corneas

Oct.29, 2018 - Precise Bio, a North Carolina based Regenerative Medicine company announced the launch of a dedicated ophthalmology business unit in its Winston-Salem facility. In addition to its scalable platform that enables mass-bio-fabrication of tissue and organ, Precise Bio aims to advance 3D bioprinting research for the eyes and bring them to market. More

3D printed graphene scaffold offers highest-ever capacitance for a supercapacitor

Oct.25, 2018 - The researchers fabricated electrodes using a printable graphene aerogel to build a porous three-dimensional scaffold loaded with pseudocapacitive gel, which is a kind of capacitor material that also behaves like a battery in some ways. In laboratory tests, the novel electrodes achieved the highest areal capacitance (electric charge stored per unit of electrode surface area) ever reported for a supercapacitor. More

Apple granted patent for triangular tessellation 3D printing method

Oct.25, 2018 - One of Apple's newly granted patents covers their invention relating to techniques for 3D printing three dimensional (3D) objects. More particularly, Apple filed a patent for a new method to print 3D models efficiently using triangular tessellation. More

Mitsubishi Electric announces new Dot Forming AM technology for high-precision 3D metal shaping

Oct.24, 2018 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has developed a unique dot forming technology that realizes high-precision shaping by combining laser, computer numerical control (CNC) and computer aided manufacturing CAM technologies in 3D printers. More

MX3D releases stunning images of world's first 3D printed steel bridge

Oct.24, 2018 - World's first 3D printed steel bridge is completed and will be installed across a canal in Amsterdam next year. The bridge has already been on display during the Dutch Design Week that took place from October 20 to October 28, 2018. More

HP, NTU Singapore and NRF announce $84 million HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab

Oct.23, 2018 - HP, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) today announced the new HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab. More

Novel 3D bioprinting tech could create artificial blood vessels, organ tissue

Oct.23, 2018 - CU Boulder engineers have developed a 3D printing technique that can recreate the complex geometry of blood vessels, and could one day be used to produce artificial arteries and organ tissue. More

SHINING 3D Launched AccuFab-D1 DLP 3D printer at Global Reseller & Partner Meeting 2018

Oct.22, 2018 - SHINING 3D's AccuFab-D1 is a desktop DLP 3D printer, specially developed for use in digital dentistry. Featuring rich print details and an outstanding efficiency, the AccuFab-D1 is built to address the various printing needs of dental model, castable wax-up, surgical guide, gingiva mask, individual impression tray, bracket transfer tray. More

Titomic signs $1.8M Defence MoU with TAUV to 3D print next-generation soldier systems

Oct.22, 2018 - Australian metal additive manufacturing Company Titomic today announces that it has signed an agreement with TAUV Proprietary Limited to commence an up to $1.8 million exclusive defence program to manufacture unmanned aerial vehicles, solider systems and solider sensors for TAUV. More

Fraunhofer IKTS researchers use FFF 3D printing to make harder 3D metal prints

Oct.22, 2018 - Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) have found a way to make much harder 3D prints in metal using Fused Filament Fabrication, which originates from the plastics processing industry. More

Tonkin Liu develops trachea stent prototype using architectural Shell Lace Structure

Oct.19, 2018 - Stephen Lawrence Prize-winning architects Anna Liu and Mike Tonkin of London-based Tonkin Liu have developed an innovative medical device called the Shell Lace Stent for use in patients' windpipes. More

New method developed to 3D print lithium-ion batteries in nearly any shape

Oct.18, 2018 - Researchers, led by Christopher Reyes and Benjamin Wiley have developed a new method to 3D print lithium-ion batteries in virtually any shape. They report their results in ACS Applied Energy Materials. More

ESA's MELT 3D printer designed for use in microgravity

Oct.18, 2018 - European Space Agency's first 3D printer designed for use in microgravity conditions, printing aerospace-quality plastics, has won the TCT Aerospace Applications Award 2018. More

Icon 3D prints homes in 24 hours for $4,000, raises $9 million for expansion

Oct.18, 2018 - ICON has raised $9 million in seed funding to build custom 3D printed homes in less than 24 hours. In partnership with New Story, a San Francisco-based, Y-Combinator backed nonprofit, Icon wants to end homelessness by building sustainable communities using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials. More

Gillette launches Razor Maker concept for customizable 3D printed razor handles

Oct.17, 2018 - Gillette today launches Razor Maker, a new concept that leverages 3D printing technology to offer a series of customizable 3D printed handles for consumers who desire to have completely unique and personalized products. More

Coolrec and Refil launch HIPS 3D printer filament made from recycled fridges

Oct.17, 2018 - Coolrec, a subsidiary of International waste recycling company Renewi, is partnering with Refil to launch HIPS (High Impact PolyStyrene plastic), a high quality, dissolvable 3D printing filament made from the plastics from old refrigerators. More

XJet opens world's largest Additive Manufacturing Center for ceramics and metals in Israel

Oct.17, 2018 - XJet, the Israeli company that develops ceramic and metal 3D printing solutions, has officially opened its Additive Manufacturing Center in Rehovot. More

PrinTracker: Researchers discover ways to trace 3D printed guns using 3D printer's fingerprint

Oct.16, 2018 - Researchers at University at Buffalo report they've found the first accurate method to track the origin of 3D-printed guns and counterfeit products. The technology, called "PrinTracker," can precisely trace the physical object to its source 3D printer based on its fingerprint. More

Russian firm is preparing to send duplicate 3D Bioprinter to ISS after Soyuz MS-10 failure

Oct.16, 2018 - The Russian 3D Bioprinting Solutions company is preparing to send a duplicate 3D bioprinter for experiments at the International Space Station (ISS) in the near future, after a Soyuz spacecraft crashed due to a malfunction during liftoff. More

Lufthansa Technik opens Additive Manufacturing Center

Oct.16, 2018 - Lufthansa Technik has set up a dedicated Additive Manufacturing (AM) Center with the aim of bundling and expanding the competence and experience the company has gained in past years. More

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