News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
Women in 3D Printing has just released the third edition of the Diversity for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) report, coinciding with International Women’s Day 2019. The new report, authored by AM journalist Sarah Goehrke, offers a broader and more in depth look at the AM industry’s workforce, with insights from various 3D printing companies and individuals in the industry.
Visitors to the interactive, experiential “Geek Mais Chic” exhibition at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, a premium shopping mall in Paris, found themselves at the intersection of technology and fashion. They became the first to experience the “just-for-me” benefits of a footwear customization collaboration between Dow, a global leader in silicone elastomer science, innovation and service, and renowned Danish shoe brand ECCO.
Digital manufacturing company 3Diligent was selected by commercial cladding company Walters & Wolf to 3D print a series of exterior curtain wall nodes for the new Rainier Square Tower in Seattle. The building, which is expected to be complete in 2020, will be Seattle’s second tallest building, following the 76-story Columbia Center.
Sintratec, a Switzerland-based SLS 3D printer manufacturer, has expanded its reseller range in Southern Europe with a new partnership with CMF Marelli. The Milan-based machine instruments supplier will now be distributing Sintratec’s additive manufacturing solutions to the Italian market.
CRP Technology is instigating its own winds of change with the announcement of a new commercial strategy for its Windform composite materials. The 3D printing materials will no longer be available to service bureaus, and will be sold exclusively to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
HAVA 3D, a leading France-based additive manufacturing company, will now exclusively be offering 3D Kimya filaments via its distributor SOTEC3D, one of three branches of the group along with Neofab and Makershop.
Wyss Institute Core Faculty member Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D. is leading some of the most advanced and yet very real progress in 3D bioprinting. Unlike others, her team is not promising 3D bioprinted organs for transplants any time soon but nevertheless her research does focus on the body’s most complex biostructures, such as kidneys. In this latest study, Prof. Lewis and her team working within the Wyss Institute’s 3D Organ Engineering Initiative that she co-leads (and in collaboration with the Roche Innovation Center Basel in Switzerland), focused on renal reabsorption outside the human body, and specifically on proximal tubules.
Optomec, a specialist in metal additive manufacturing, has announced the launch of two new Directed Energy Deposition systems, the LENS CS 600 and CS 800 Controlled Atmosphere (CA). The new systems, which expand upon Optomec’s LENS series, were developed with the aim of maximizing the process’ build envelope while reducing the machine’s chamber volume and overall footprint.
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Imagine you are a large 2D printer manufacturer and you wish to get into the 3D printing game. You will probably think that if you create a great machine, 20% of your revenue will come from the machine sales and the rest will come from the materials. When we are talking about ink for 2D printers, whether you print a Mona Lisa or your shopping list on a piece of paper, the value and cost of the application is the same. In that case, it doesn’t really seem to matter what your customers print.