News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Prodways Rapid Additive Forging (RAF) technology dedicated to the 3D printing of large dimension titanium parts for aeronautics applications is attracting interest from other industrial sectors. As part of a development project, MBDA, one of the global leaders in defense, has chosen Prodways RAF technology to produce massive titanium parts.
Desktop Metal has just announced it has started to ship its Studio System 3D printer to customers and resellers across Europe. The office-friendly metal 3D printer, which was first introduced in 2017, has already seen broad adoption across the United States by influential companies such as Ford, Stanley Black and Decker, Goodyear, Owens Corning, Google’s ATAP and John Zink Hamworthy Combustion.
Dedienne Multiplasturgy Group, a French company specialized in the design and manufacture of high-performance plastic and composite technical parts for metal replacement is the first French manufacturer – on one of the very first in the world – to install an EOS P 810 laser sintering system for EOS HT-23 material (based on Kepstan PEKK, the extreme polymer from Arkema, reinforced with carbon fibers.
Officials with Norsk Titanium, a supplier of 3D printed titanium parts for the aerospace industry, have announced a contract award from Airbus for the Qualification and Serial Production of the first parts to be manufactured utilizing wire-based Direct Energy Deposition (DED) additive manufacturing technology. The announcement was made at the Paris Air Show 2019.
voxeljet, a leading provider of high-speed, large-format 3D printers and on-demand parts services, is now closer to presenting its new additive manufacturing technology. Dubbed VJET X, the new process and relative hardware is targeted at direct additive mass manufacturing (AMM) of sand cores for indirect additive mass manufacturing of metal parts.
Japanese electronics company Ricoh is furthering its stake in the biomedical and bioprinting sectors with a new partnership with Elixirgen Scientific, Inc., a Baltimore-based biotech company that specializes in stem cell technology.
UK-based precision engineering company Frazer-Nash Manufacturing works with a broad range of clients, many of them in the food manufacturing and aerospace sectors. Since as early as 2014, the company has relied on Renishaw’s metal additive manufacturing technology to produce complex, high quality parts for its clients.
Norsk Titanium, a supplier of 3D printed structural titanium components for the aerospace industry, has announced two significant milestones at the Paris Air Show this week. First, the company has successfully completed the latest phase of Boeing’s Material Allowables Program, which consists of characterizing the company’s Rapid Plasma Deposition (RPD) process. Second, the company is preparing to enter into the second testing phase for a 3D printed integrally bladed rotor (IBR).
GKN Aerospace is to lead two ground-breaking collaborative additive manufacturing research programs, AIRLIFT and DAM and will inject its unique Laser Metal Deposition by wire (LMD-w) AM technology in the programs. AIRLIFT and DAM are focused on making AM serial production ready at high rates and exploring how AM can revolutionize product design for high value, high complexity product manufacture. The aim is to accelerate industrialization and increase GKN Aerospace’s market share in the growing global AM market.
3D printing solutions company Hawk Ridge Systems has announced the opening of a new additive manufacturing facility in Ohio. The digital manufacturing lab marks the Silicon Valley-based company’s continued intention to expand in the midwest region and broaden the geographic scope of its AM solutions.